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Weekly Photo Contest: July 11 - July 18 (Theme: Square Composition)

Congrats to sim667

Thanks for the feedback and taking the responsibility of judging this week. It would seem that I have a very bad habit of taking all of my photos with a slight lean to the right.

Thinking of making it my signature.

cheers!
 
pmxperience said:
Congrats to sim667

Thanks for the feedback and taking the responsibility of judging this week. It would seem that I have a very bad habit of taking all of my photos with a slight lean to the right.

Thinking of making it my signature.

cheers!
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Everyone has a signature move/shot/trait! I see this as no bad one!


JDDavis said:
acearchie The light is wonderful. The models stare into the camera is great. The composition of everything in the room works really well with the square format to me. My one criticism is the dust on the print. I'm assuming that this is one from your film camera. Normally that "acearchie" feel to a picture is very intriguing. For whatever reason in this one I'm distracted by the spots around the models face and hair.
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Thanks for the feedback. I've been pressed for time recently and of the 80 or so 120 shots I took during this trip and the 180 35mm shots I have only had time to process two! And as you have mentioned slightly missed the mark on one of them!

When I get another pass at it in PS I will clean it up a bit more.

Thanks again and I look forward to next week.
 
pmxperience said:
Congrats to sim667

Thanks for the feedback and taking the responsibility of judging this week. It would seem that I have a very bad habit of taking all of my photos with a slight lean to the right.

Thinking of making it my signature.

cheers!
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LOL. I recognize it becuase I struggle with it greatly. I am a confirmed right leaner. Most of the time I end up fixing it in post but I'm better now because I'm so aware of it. The reason it stands out to me on your shot is because everything is so symmetrical. I think it's a great POV though.
 
JDDavis said:
jabbot Nicely done. The square format works well with this landscape and it's nicely composed. I like the light on the cliff face of the mountain. I know you couldn't really control it but the trees in the foreground detract a little from the main subject for me. I wonder what the image was like from the waters edge?
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Thanks for the helpful judging, JDDavis. I ended up posting the more dense version of Loch Vale as I had cropped it square a couple weeks prior to the contest announcement. The other views I captured weren't as conducive to the square format in my opinion. Here is what the view looks like from the waters edge:

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Congrats to the winners and thanks JDDavis for taking the time to critique .
Gonna try to find that building when I'm in the Bay area in a couple of weeks and try your suggestion for a morning or evening shot ,or maybe I'll get lucky and SF will have clear skies !!
 
JDDavis said:
Apple fanboy That rubiks cube is more my speed. It's interesting because I haven't figured out exactly how you shot this. Is it resting on something? Looks like maybe two images combined into one piece?
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Thanks for the feedback. I've been quite ill this week so I couldn't get out and about. Being quite new I don't have a big collection of stock images.
My original idea was going to take a Rubik's cube somewhere interesting. As it turned out I took a picture of my kitchen tiles and took out the colour using the Perect photo suit 7.5 from Onone and added a layer of the cube which I shot on some paper in my lounge and removed the background using the same software.
It was a bit of a lazy edit, but I quite liked the end result.
Looking forward to the next challenge as I still have lots to learn!
 
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Apple fanboy said:
Thanks for the feedback. I've been quite ill this week so I couldn't get out and about. Being quite new I don't have a big collection of stock images.
My original idea was going to take a Rubik's cube somewhere interesting. As it turned out I took a picture of my kitchen tiles and took out the colour using the Perect photo suit 7.5 from Onone and added a layer of the cube which I shot on some paper in my lounge and removed the background using the same software.
It was a bit of a lazy edit, but I quite licked the end result.
Looking forward to the next challenge as I still have lots to learn!
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Well no wonder you were sick - you shouldn't be licking your images. :p
 
I PM'd sim667 yesterday and have had no response. I agree...it's on to Schtumple now.
 
JDDavis said:
sagar4995 I like the format for this shot. I do like the isolated color in a B&W (I think there's a name for this?) I can't explain it but the placement of the colored donuts in the bottom left doesn't work for me. My eye keeps going to where the choco frosted ones are.
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thanks for the review. i too am not too sure what these types of pictures (isolated color in a B&W) are called. im still a newbie to mobile photography. :eek:
 
I'm really sorry everyone, I've barely been on the internet for a while.

Really appreciate being chosen as the winner, and glad schtumple got to pick the next contest...

Maybe Ill turn PM email notifications on :D
 
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