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Red Hat

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Title     Red Hat
Photographer     annikab/Annika (26) Send mail to this user
Portfolio     Annika's
Category     Abstract
Submitted     January 17, 2002 1:02:36 PM CST
Views     1,620
Rating     -1 Thumb-down

Paper mache type hat that Annika's brother made. She liked the colors and shape of the hat.

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Thumb-up    from sayleen/Celine (338) Send mail to this user on May 7, 2002 2:31:37 PM CDT (1)

It's not great, but I give you a thumbs-up kid for trying. The hat is an interesting object, perhaps you can put it on a stone statue in a park or on some toys to make it more colorful and funny. The newspaper and the tissue paper look sloppy and the lighting isn't very good. try again

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Thumb-down    from lurkinginsagas/a (1,749) Send mail to this user on February 24, 2002 1:51:42 PM CST (1)

the angle is too flat. centering is a sign of amateur photography. i couldn't tell what the object in the photo was. perhaps put some light on it & try changing your angle.

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Thumb-down    from tommywilliams/Tommy (256) Send mail to this user on January 31, 2002 7:16:39 PM CST (2)

This one has some serious problems. The image is full of chroma noise -- looks like a digicam trying to deal with a high-ISO setting or low light, or both. Then the red is oversaturated and this ruins your shot because the red is the subject here.

The lighting is very poor, and you can see the seam of the background the base. Could this have been two pieces of white foamcore, or maybe even paper? There's a shadow on the floor which takes away from the abstractness of this.

The framing is poor, too. If you're going to put the hat dead center, you need to get the edges of it the same distance from the edge of the frame on all sides. Cropping this correctly would correct another of my nits above.

Unfortunately, this doesn't work as an abstract, but the angle prevents it working even as a record of what it is. There's no depth to the hat, so it ends up looking like some crumpled pieces of colored paper.

If you really like the colors of the hat, change the image to focus on the colors: get better light, turn down the saturation in your camera, and crop much more tightly.

Abstracts are very hard to do well. At least they are for me. I can say when I don't like one, but I can't do a good job offering suggestions for improvement.

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