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Hi All, I am new on 1x.com, trying to find my way around.
This photo passed the curation phase but it says it is not selected. I do not understand what this means.
The percentages of likes/improvement are clear, but I do like to see where they are based on.
The composition critique is understandable. I already made a cropped version which looks good (but lacks pixels). But that one misses partially the locality which attract the locals who know this specific location.
The subject critique I do not understand. Hanging the laundry the old fashion way at a old building surprised me back then because it is almost never seen nowadays.
Technical critique means the contrast and sharpness could be better??
Photo is made in 2014 with a Canon 5Diii. 99mm, f/11, 1/160s, 200iso, processed in ACDsee.
This is the cropped version.
Hello Ko
Welcome to the forum, and thank you for sharing your Laundry Day photo. This subject is often popular as it harks back to a bygone era. I definitely like the full version that shows details of the setting. I have just done some light editing to increase the definition and deepen the tones so that the white linens show up a little more distinctly.
Good light, Elizabeth
Hello, Ko Van Leeuwen
Welcome to our forum and thank you for sharing your image with us. I agree with my friend Elizabeth in that the uncropped image has more potential. I think insted of the cropping the actual flaw in the composition is that there is not emough foreground and this presents us an incomplete background image. In terms of the subject matter I think the curators were looking for somebody who might have been the one hanging those clothes or at least looking at them. You chose the clothes as subject as I get it but I think they belong more to the background. As said before with a better composition you might also have had a chance without a person there. I wish you good light....Cicek
Hello Ko
Welcome to the forum, and thank you for sharing your Laundry Day photo. This subject is often popular as it harks back to a bygone era. I definitely like the full version that shows details of the setting. I have just done some light editing to increase the definition and deepen the tones so that the white linens show up a little more distinctly.
Good light, Elizabeth
Thank you Elisabeth. You are right about the lightning. And I am glad you like the full version.
Hello, Ko Van Leeuwen
Welcome to our forum and thank you for sharing your image with us. I agree with my friend Elizabeth in that the uncropped image has more potential. I think insted of the cropping the actual flaw in the composition is that there is not emough foreground and this presents us an incomplete background image. In terms of the subject matter I think the curators were looking for somebody who might have been the one hanging those clothes or at least looking at them. You chose the clothes as subject as I get it but I think they belong more to the background. As said before with a better composition you might also have had a chance without a person there. I wish you good light....Cicek
Thanks you Cicek. I am glad you too like the full version. The foreground was just ordinary pavement and (at least I think) would make the laundry less prominent.
It is hard to make the photo with some people on it. A lot of people don't like that because they don't want other to know where they are living. Back then some even lived here illegally. And offcourse there is the GPDR. That is void for press- and artistic photography, but in this case you would invade the privacy of their home. And last but not least, there have to be someone home ;-)
And why do you want the laundry not to be the main subject?
