let's see how this critique fares

[jetcode]

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[Clay Kerri]

I can't personally say I like the crop. It offsets the balance of the overall image. Your eyes are initially drawn to the focus of the knobs. But then your eyes dart to the pot because of how large it is. Then you follow the handle back to your focus, which are the knobs. You are continually looking back and forth between the two subject. Again, both of these subjects aren't really strong because of the cropping and framing.

I do like the white balancing and the texturing, but those alone cannot make the image good. I think in concept, what you have going on here is good. I think it needs to be shot over again though, with more thought in mind to your framing, composition, and balancing.

[snyderman]

Honestly, the shot looks like a mistake. What, exactly ARE you trying to say with the shot? I'm thinking "Nifty-fifty" focus on the knobs (which again, say nothing to me!) and let the sauce pan and rest of the dirty stove kinda go OOF.

The handle on the dirty sauce pan was my first look ... then onto the dirty saucepan itself then to your focus on the two knobs then back to the dirty surface of the range itself.

In a nutshell, that's what your images says to me. Not much thought went into composition or a story at all. It doesn't imply anything more to me than a misfire of the shutter or a total mistake shot.

dave

[Flo]

Again, the image is not strong enough in itself to make me want to analyze it. Sorry~

[OdiN1701]

I don't like it. It's boring.