On my way home from a beautiful sunny afternoon snapping for the Rust challenge, came upon this old fence near the harbor that I guess had been rusted by the salt air, and this padlock just hanging there. Looked like the perfect subject, so I snapped from a few different angles and this one looked the best to me.
Cropped, auto contrast, Neat Imaged it, unsharp mask, resize.
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just needed to be a smidge more to the right for composition, the padlock that is, otherwise GREAT! love the blue against the rust and the rest of fhe compostion and the exposure and focus.
I love the saturation of this and the forced perspective of the fence. The contrast of the color of the sky and the orange and browns is wonderful, as is the difference in the textures.
Fantastic shot! The only thing I would possibly change is to reflect a bit of light onto the bottom of the padlock to reveal a bit of detail there. Well done though.
Nice subject, nice composition, pretty colors, nice time of day I like that all of the foreground is in focus although the hasp and lit side of lock seem to be little out of focus. A difficult problem.
Composition: Subject Placement, Cropping, Background 6
Technical: Focus, Exposure, Lighting, Processing 7
Appeal: Is it Interesting, Motivating, Etc.? 3
How well does it meet the challenge: 9
Total Averaged Rating 6.25 Dick
Composition: Subject Placement, Cropping, Background 6
Technical: Focus, Exposure, Lighting, Processing 7
Appeal: Is it Interesting, Motivating, Etc. 5
How well does it meet the challenge: 7
Total Averaged Rating(Rounded) 6
It took good seeing to find this one and the composition is delightful. Good colors and nice shadows. Um, border patrol: I'd have probably gotten rid of that little right lower corner bit of fencing.
one of the top three in my opinion, clean design but the contrasting colors is what truely drew me in. I looked for reasoning behind shots not just a pretty rusty object and in this one i rationalized that the lock dealt with the certainity and inability to change the course of deterioration.
A tricky shot in which to get the exposure right. Unfortunately, exposing correctly for the sky leaves the padlock badly underexposed. You could have tried a light fill in flash to solve this. As it is, the padlock, which is a key element in the photo is too dark for my liking. Otherwise it's a nicely composed shot.
IMO, should have been cropped out a bit more on the right side (right bottom corner spoils it) and less dof would have more impact. Still, one of my favourites, 8
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