Response to The Decisive Moment (Response #16)

Uploaded 799 Days Ago by LynnR - 5 comments

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TheDailySunrise said 799 days ago:

It's a moment alright : but it could have been captured better : not very good image quality.

LynnR said 799 days ago:

I'm glad someone comment ed, so that I could have the opportunity to say,

"this is the moment when the fire juggler dropped one of his torches, and he's being rather explicative. The shot is already at full zoom and is cropped accordingly, and of course this all happened in a "SPLIT SECOND". Not exactly time to "COMPOSE a shot" ... anyway, ... thanks for the constructive critique. :)"

I just like to play along too.

dicksdaily said 799 days ago:

Very relevant, shame about the quality of the image itself - the guy's face is a bit lost in the speaker and it looks a bit over-sharpened around his legs...

gpinto said 798 days ago:

The image does not seem too sharp to me. Maybe it was cropped way in.

luminouslens said 798 days ago:

What I like about this image is the look you captured on the guy's face. He's holding a flame and does not look confident that everything is under control!

Unfortunately, while you captured this interesting moment, I don't feel like you quite hit the right timing compositionally. I am NOT saying it would have been easy - just that I think this shot would have a lot more depth to it if the guy's head were not just coming in front of the speaker.

Also, the image quality is not great. It looks very oversharpened and I cannot tell if that is the JPG sharpening in camera and/or whether this is a crop. My guess is that it's a crop and so the in camera sharpening and artifacting is simply more visible?

I do appreciate what you were trying to do here, and I realize that this was a very fleeting moment with a lot of expression to capture! I have to say I am very curious to know what happened next - did they fall over??

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