The Last Hurrah

[JBW]

ISO 100 ~ Shutter Speed 1.3s ~ F/16 ~ Natural Light

[Manfred M]

Interesting concept, but the scene itself is too messy to be effective. There is just too much other distracting material in this shot for it to work.

[JBW]

Interesting concept, but the scene itself is too messy to be effective. There is just too much other distracting material in this shot for it to work.

Death is messy. Nature is messy. Sometimes photography needs to be messy to get the feeling across.

[Manfred M]

Death is messy. Nature is messy. Sometimes photography needs to be messy to get the feeling across.

What you say might be true about life, but not necessarily about photography. As CiC is a photography site, I will continue to comment on how well the images work.

[JBW]

What you say might be true about life, but not necessarily about photography. As CiC is a photography site, I will continue to comment on how well the images work.

Fair enough just so long as remember that how well it works does depend upon the taste of the one commenting

[Manfred M]

Fair enough just so long as remember that how well it works does depend upon the taste of the one commenting

I can't disagree that tastes do vary.

I've been busy judging at different photo club competitions (I've done 8 different competitions over the past few weeks) and in each competition there were three different judges precisely for that reason. We all see and view images slightly differently. That being said, over the hundreds of images that were judged there was rarely more than a 1 point spread between the scores (on a scale of 1 to 10).

If you like the product, who am I to tell you what to like or dislike? All I can do is point out what I see as issues with the image. Feel free to disagree with me.