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michelleh
Sep 12, 2005, 11:11 AM
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A good photo, can't see any faults. The climber is in the sun, good DOF with climber crisp focus, base of the climb isn't disctracting (in fact very un-distracting with the shade!). Nicely done!
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melekzek
Sep 12, 2005, 7:40 PM
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the talent is at the 6th clip, and he looks like he is only a couple of meters off the ground :twisted:
Small DOF cliche would work here, or you can try to shoot as far from the rock as possible(hint: if you are hanging from the rope, try standing up (up: horizontal, lol))
The image itself is a bit chaotic, you need something to lead the viewers eye to the talent. Natural lines, the rope, series of quickdraws, you name it. Use them as compositional elements for a more readable picture. The background is nice and all, but is distracting. The high frequency foliage, and sharp contrasted shadows does not help here, imho.
The quickdraw he is about to clip is out of focus. It usually works better if the focus is on his face and also on his clip. The foreground higher quickdraw overlaps with the hero-quickdraw and does not work here. It also shows preplaced gear, come on, you are killing the action, adventure (i did it, finally i used sport climbing and adventure in the same sentence :lol:) . Clean the frame a bit.
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alpinerock
Sep 13, 2005, 2:42 AM
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the whites seem a little blown out, my eyes are constantly drawn to his right hand.
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sonyhome
Sep 13, 2005, 7:56 PM
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I think the base o the climb is out of sight on the right. Maybe the reason the photo feels a tad confusing? Zooming out a tad would've helped by adding more context at the top and right of the photo...
I like the fact that the eye is drawn to the clipping hand, because it is lit in front of a shaded background. Mabe a little overexposed on the bright spots.
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lhwang
Sep 24, 2005, 4:50 PM
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Thanks for the advice... I'm going to Skaha again in October so I'll try out some of the suggestions then.
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