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Nikon N90s Thanks Shree

-- Shree (shreepadjoglekar@usa.net), October 11, 1999

Answers

First of all, I think you should look at the rules for this critique.

As for the image...I really like the pattern of the sand and the idea of parent/child, but I would prefer a closer crop, with the big one in the upper left and the child in the lower right. That way, you still get the pattern, but you get a lot less "empty" space. That's my only nitpick about this one.

-- Jeremy Kindy (kindjd01@wfu.edu), October 11, 1999.


Nice shot! I actually like the 'empty space'. Helps isolate the subjects and adds (anthropomorhizing here) a feeling of 'lonliness' to the picture. The patterns in the sand help too. I wish the picture were a little brighter though. More contrast maybe? Although the high lights on the bigger shell are already burnt out.

-- Deepak Barua (dbarua@syr.edu), October 11, 1999.

Weather it is or not I can't say, but it looks contrived to me. Pat

-- pat j. krentz (krentz@cci-29palms.com), October 11, 1999.

Interesting comment Pat, I don't know whether it matters or not, but having spent uncountable hours walking the beach, these are definitely not the way "tide washed" shells sit in the sand, they're too high up without "run-off" marks around shell points from receeding tide. If I was walking the beach I would see this from 50 yards away. I don't think it was presented as a "natural occurence" type of shot, if it was, I simply smile.....I'm a beach bum, I know these things.

-- Steven SIsti (stevesisti@aol.com), October 11, 1999.

I would have to agree with Pat. To me, it looks contrived, which makes the shot a little awkard.

good luck

darron

-- darron young (darron@qi.ucsb.edu), October 11, 1999.



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