happy_chappy

This was an old negative taken with a cheap camera and lens. I ran

it through a film scanner and tweaked it a little by cropping some

of the bottom, removed some dust and finally toned.

Shallow DoF means that no single screw is fully in focus. The eye

and mind have to build the picture from the repeating image.

There may be some who like the attitude that the shot has, but, you have lost her arm. I am an ex-wediing photographer and can assure you, this is disastrous! In fact, I clicked on the thumbnail as I wondered how you had dealt with an 'afflicted' bride only to find the affliction was how you posed her! Remember - a bride wants to be shown at her best - losing an arm doesn't portray that.

 

:-(

Change the crop to portrait placing the bottom of the tree trunk into the bottom right corner leading up to the top left for a more striking image. Also, try to straighten the sea. Then re-submit and compare the scores!

This was taken more as a lens test than anything else. The large

file does the image far more justice, better sharpness and

isolation. I tried a different crop, placing the point of focus on

one of the lines of thirds, but in the end I like this image as it

is in context.

 

What do you think?

I was going to say that this is the daddies but no arms makes me feel uneasy. I can live with one of her legs being lost to the darkness but the way the arms are lost... that for me is too much. If you had just managed to capture just some of the arms that would have made it for me.

 

If it hadn't been for that, this would have been worth a 7 in my view.