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Note (After Challenge): This photo presented itself on the way home from church last Sunday afternoon. It was a five-second impulse. Grab camera! Without visually composing shot point toward windshield! Click! Put down camera!
Later, after cropping and the slight rotation to level the plane, I had the unique photograph that you are so gracious to LOVE!
You are too kind and very encouraging!
Be Blessed! Stan :)
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It was a five-second impulse. Grab camera! Without visually composing shot point toward windshield! Click! Put down camera!
My thoughts on the image: Unfortunately, I immediately feel that this is a post-processed snapshot rather than an image that you tool time to compose and enhance with post-processing. Now I do like the watercolor feel that you processed, but over all the image has several flaws that are difficult for the standard voter to overcome.
My ideas for improvement: Clean your sensor. Even without cleaning the sensor, make sure that you remove sensor dust from any challenge entry. Every time. Take time and compose the image. This looks like a typical Georgia fall to me; a scene that I am very fond of. I love the wet asphalt, the golden grass, and the beautiful leading lines you captured. I'd just like to see it with the sky a little less exposed and some time in post-processing to enhance the captured image rather than creating a new image through processing.
Where I would have/did score this entry: I did not vote in this particular challenge, but I surely would have been one of your 3s or 4s. While this is indeed a landscape, I just lose appreciation and interest with images that are over-processed. I do like the foundation of your capture, but I'd like to see it processed more for the image that it was.
Thank you for the opportunity to provide a critique on your entry,
Eric
Challenges are so limiting (to me as a voter). Liberated from the challenge, I can really appreciate this image greatly. I voted 4 but now out of the challenge it gives me a 9 feeling. Came back to explain and enjoy the image.
Thank You, Malski! Your words are both encouraging and greatly appreciated! It is nice to meet many more artists on DPC! You are helping to increase the value of this photo! That means a lot! :)
Thank You intensely, KaDi! Photographers, like you, are the reason that I am still a photographer!
I don't think I like consistently being in the score-cellar of DPC any more than anyone else would, but I have had to content myself with the fact that great artists are rarely fully appreciated in their lifetimes.
Maybe one day I, too, will be considered ahead-of-my-time. Until then I struggle as an artist, while being very grateful to capture a unique vision of the world.
Such kind words make my efforts seem more worthwhile.
I think that the windshield-as-watercolor isn't quite working for me.I find myself wanting to see the image without the windshield in the way.. I love the composition of the shot.
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