Retro Critique

April 19th, 2012
I would love to hear both positive and negative critiques about my retro soda photo...
Soda
April 19th, 2012
I left you a simple critique; mainly pushing the background away and using more natural light. Awesome bottles!
April 19th, 2012
Can you post it in the discussion?
April 19th, 2012
not sure how...
April 19th, 2012

like that :)
April 19th, 2012
I'm with @grizzlysghost on this one - I'd go for a plainer background, with a lot of depth of field, so the focus is on the bottles. Besides that, I like the tones and processing you've used.
April 19th, 2012
@asrai howd you do that?
April 19th, 2012
I like it! I probably would have tried cropping it make the top of the photo at the top of the bottle necks (but cut off the very tops of the bottles) and bring in the sides close to the bottle edges. I would then play around with sliders in light room until I get the result I like.
April 19th, 2012

There are two easy ways to add pictures on to the discussion.
The first is a full size photo: 1) Click on your photo and bring up its page. 2)Look at the right side of your monitor, and go to the word SHARE (it is below tags) 3) go to the box and copy the long address 4) Come back to the discussion, and then paste. 5) If it is not your photo also tag the person who it belongs to so they know you love it (@name) remember no punctuation on either side of the @and name.

The second is to have a smaller file size so to keep the site from getting overwhelmed. http://365project.org/discuss/general/1323/how-to-adding-an-image-in-a-discussion
April 19th, 2012
I think I'd go for a plainer background, and also I would not crop off the bottoms of the bottles. I like the tones very much.

To copy your photo here. you go to your page, and where it says "share" at the bottom of the page, you copy the info that's in that little box, and paste all of it in the Write a Reply box.
April 19th, 2012
@brumbe typing at the same time!
April 19th, 2012
@5unflow3r It comes directly from the favorite fav discussion each week.
April 19th, 2012
@brumbe Oh cool---that's where I will go and look for the text should I ever need it again. :-)
April 19th, 2012
@5unflow3r I am planning on retiring from the task and my alternate has other commitments, so it will be up for hosting grabs at the end of the week. Hopefully the future fav host will keep it.
April 19th, 2012
Here is a couple of really quick shots to show how staging matters. While my bottles aren't cool and retro, they get your attention because the background is pushed back.



April 19th, 2012
Red
I agree with Shelly about the DOF...these bottles remind me of summer at the beach so why not a beach background?
April 19th, 2012
@grizzlysghost Is there an 's' before that 'lut' that we just can't see? Because I would totally buy THOSE bottles.
April 19th, 2012
@beautifulthing Haha, I think I remember rubbing one out...
April 19th, 2012
@grizzlysghost Think about what you just typed VERY VERY CAREFULLY.
April 19th, 2012
@beautifulthing I'm recharging... I'll think about it again in about 2 minutes... :p
April 19th, 2012
@beautifulthing Awesome! I'll put it with my collection!
April 19th, 2012
April 19th, 2012
@grizzlysghost I think your bottles are just sooooo cool and with the brown and green one my mind is reading Slut subliminally.

@beautifulthing he said rubbing. @5unflow3r I think the discussion may have just been hijacked
April 19th, 2012
@brumbe What gave it away? :-)
April 19th, 2012
Thank you very much everyone, Ill repost it when i try it again
April 19th, 2012
@beautifulthing @grizzlysghost @5unflow3r @brumbe I am freaking laughing out loud here......damn it that was hilarious.
April 19th, 2012
@beautifulthing @grizzlysghost hahahahahhahahahahahahahaha I almost woke up my kids dude hahahhahahahahahah
April 19th, 2012
You could try a totally different perspective of the bottles, here's what I tried with old bottles:

April 19th, 2012
Agreed, the background is a little distracting - either use a simpler background, or decrease the depth of field (or increase the distance between the background and the bottles). The bottles themselves look great - you captured their colours and details well.
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