I have a little rusted garden decoration that I took out and placed in different locations. When I got the photos on the computer, I decided that I preferred an abstract crop of it because the texture of the rust was so wonderful in the morning sun.
Edits: Crop & contrast. Resize for web.
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Place: 46 out of 443 Avg (all users): 5.8841 Avg (commenters): 6.9375 Avg (participants): 5.7616 Avg (non-participants): 6.0865 Views since voting: 1080 Votes: 276 Comments: 17 Favorites: 0
First - Congratulations on being in the top 10% on only your 3rd challenge! There are many, many members who have only dreamed of a finish that high.
Your image is one I commented on during the voting, with "Your image, intentional or not, is an optical illusion. Sometimes it looks like the rusty area is the object and other times like the green area is the object. Nice rust and texture therin. If you rotate it 90 degrees counter clockwise it may be a stronger image - kinda like a human figure. If you re-shoot try to tone down the background a bit by making those bright yellow / orange objects fall into a shadowed area."
I stand by my earlier comments - and note that most of the commenters have positive comments about your entry. So, having said all that - it's time to take a great submission into a ribbon winner. How can we do that?
a) Most of the suggestions for improvement revolved around composition. Studying the image objectively - as if it were someone else's image - you may note that: 1) There is a stranded triangle at the bottom right corner, which means the image doesn't have much of a "base" to work from.
b) Maybe more importantly, a few felt like the image would be stronger if the left edge became the bottom.
But - hey - don't lose the fact that this image was rated better than nearly 400 other submissions. Now it's not a matte of starting over - but instead - just "tweaking" what you've already done.
Composition: Subject Placement, Cropping, Background 6
Technical: Focus, Exposure, Lighting, Processing 6
Appeal: Is it Interesting, Motivating, Etc.? 5
How well does it meet the challenge: 10
Total Averaged Rating 6.75 Dick
Composition: Subject Placement, Cropping, Background 5
Technical: Focus, Exposure, Lighting, Processing 6
Appeal: Is it Interesting, Motivating, Etc. 4
How well does it meet the challenge: 7
Total Averaged Rating(Rounded) 6
Composition: Subject Placement, Cropping, etc. 6
Technical: Focus, Exposure, Lighting, Processing 6
Appeal: Is it Interesting, Motivating, Etc.? 7
Does this picture meet the challenge?(5pts) Yes
Total Challenge Weighted Average 6 Bill
Your image, intentional or not, is an optical illusion. Sometimes it looks like the ruty area is the object and other times like the green area is the object. Nice rust and texture therin. If you rotate it 90 degrees counter clockwise it may be a stronger image - kinda like a human figure. If you re-shoot try to tone down the background a bit by making those bright yellow / orange objects fall into a shadowed area.
Interesting abstract - looks a bit oversharpened or over-contrasted. I think I would find this more appealing a bit more zoomed out in order to see what the sculpture was.
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