Took this photo for an engagement session for a client of mine, I saw this challenge and i thought i'd give it a shot, i really like this photo. Used my Canon 30D, a 750w strobe with a 42"softbox.
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Place: 75 out of 90 Avg (all users): 4.7149 Avg (commenters): 5.0000 Avg (participants): 4.5854 Avg (non-participants): 4.7444 Views since voting: 767 Views during voting: 357 Votes: 221 Comments: 15 Favorites: 0
Meeting the Challenge: A bit of weakness here, as my attention is immediately drawn away from the truck, and drawn to the couple.
Composition: The composition is nice, with a lower left - upper right diagonal emphasis on the subjects. A very beautiful place to photograph, with the bending trees overhead, and the green, green grass in the foreground.
Subject: Very fun subject, we all love a nice love story.
Technical: Oh, man. Well, in some aspects you've done very well, the lighting does look good here (and that's hard under these conditions, with patchy ambient lighting!), but I can see the softbox's reflection in the truck, and it really does distract just a little from the lines of the vehicle. I'm wondering if you had an issue with your post processing, I own a 20D, and that's a sharp camera, so I know this shouldn't be blurry like it is, I suspect you may have compressed this too much, or done something odd during resizing.. Then again, I can absolutely see from your portfolio that you sometimes favor a blurry processing, so if this is intentional, you have certainly succeeded..
Final thoughts: An image with lots of 1950's charm. There is an instant connection to the couple, and you are visually drawn to them. As for your score, it would have been much higher if the blurriness issue wasn't there, and might have been improved by getting the couple to go for a walk ;).. In any case, a really good concept that I'm sure the client was very happy with...
This is a great story teller and a beautiful truck! it is too bad that you couldn't achieve a focus point. I don't think that the whole image needed to be in focus but in general I think photographs look better when a key element is in focus. (no vote)
Good setup, staging, and lighting...I would have scored highger if focus was more tuned in...almost looks like a resolution/file size issue, and not your fault though. Good pic.
wow - ready to 10 this one except my eyes got crossed waiting for it to focus. guess this is meant to be "soft focus" but somehow a tad overdone? great try. 7
I think a bigger aperture would have been a lot effective here. The couple ends up detracting from this picture (even though I am sure they were added to make the picture more interesting) because they are out of focus.
I generally like the image. It has good colors, a pleasing composition, and the addition of the human element is a nice touch. It all seems slighty soft or out of focus, however. I suspect this is not how the image really was, but that it occurred somewhere in your processing of the image.
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