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UER Forum > Archived UE Photo Critiques > Six in the Chamber (Viewed 226 times)
Minister Mud 


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Six in the Chamber
< on 10/22/2006 7:01 PM >
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1

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6


have at 'em.
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Shai Hulud 


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Re: Six in the Chamber
<Reply # 1 on 10/23/2006 12:55 AM >
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These are good. All of them are simple but deep, and they've got very solid composition. My personal favorites are the first three, just because of the subjects. I'd love to see more.

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Re: Six in the Chamber
<Reply # 2 on 10/23/2006 6:41 AM >
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I really like 1, 5, & 6. They have a nice sterile lab feel to them, I think it accurately presents the fact that you were in an animal testing facility. The slides strewn across the floor emphasize it's desolation and abandonment.

Technically, I hate the lighting in #2. There is something off, and I just can't put my finger on it. It is lacking in composition, and I am really not getting what you're trying to say with it.

#3 seems a little too bright. A slighty shorter exposure could make all of the difference here and recover some of the lost detail from your highlights.

#4 is interesting to look at, the decay is intriguing. It just doesn't appeal to my personal taste. Not a bad photo. HDR may have been an interesting experiment here.

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Minister Mud 


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Re: Six in the Chamber
<Reply # 3 on 10/24/2006 7:16 PM >
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thanks for the constructive comments. I learn all I can from everyone on this site.

the best advice I've ever received though, was so simple--

Robdobi told me I needed to bring along a tripod.

He was fuckin' right.

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Re: Six in the Chamber
<Reply # 4 on 10/24/2006 11:06 PM >
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#1 Bothers me because the closest bottle is out of focus, and it is overly obvious because of the writing on the bottle. Yeah, the other bottle is more in the center and should draw more focus, but my eyes keep pulling to the left. But catching that little tray on the right was awesome.

#2 I thought you posted a different version of this same shot on another part of the forum. I like that one better. The curtain is so washed out at the base, it hurts.

#3 I <3 this one. If the top of the stairs was darkened just a little bit, I think it would add something. It's probably the glare that is coming off the long plank that is messing with me.

#4 I really like how the image is split into five parts. The floor, the two walls, the sky, and the center. It seems really balanced lighting-wise. If you were willing to shop it a bit, I think it would be neat to add the color back into the tree showing out the window in the back. (However, I'm a sucker for adding bits of color into a black and white piece, so I'm terribly biased.)

#5 I like this one. At first I thought it was blurry, and then I realized it was all the dirt covering the desk and the slides that gave it that appearance. Since the light is coming in at that angle, it gives me the feeling of a desk in someone's house that has been abandoned for a long time, left in the middle of going through the family vaction slides.

#6 I don't like it. It's funny, but does nothing for me. Too much wall on the sides, maybe. I didn't even see that phone when we were there, otherwise you would have heard my hysterical laughter. It is interesting, however, that the phone and that bit of metal (which I'm assuming is an eyewash and not a cradle) are shaped so similiarly.


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