Here's my advanced critique: Get rid of the text at the bottom!!

The photo itself is beautiful. Excellent sense of mystery and depth and I love the little spot of light in the center of the shadow.

My immediate take on this one is that it's about bullying - probably a personal overlay. I guess there is a ton of symbolism when seeing a school locker: everyone has a reaction to it, whether it's opening up to reveal semi-nude pictures of Britney Spears or transluscent bags of heroin or some poor kid who got stuffed in there after the playoff game.

It's a great image, very stark, lots of vertical, horizontal, and diagonal lines. The lines seem slightly degraded and rough, like looking at an antique photograph. Just looking at the vents, the locker doors seem slightly battered, like old cars in a junkyard.

You focus on the locked door first and then the open door beside it. The inside of that open door is so black - I can see there are some shards of light when you full-view it. It's a menacing image to me. It's also an end-of-the-line locker, the last one in the row. Certainly the last one you'd want to be caught in. Anyway, it's a good image: kind of scary but very universal.

Oh, marc...

My reasoning:
-The title is an inherent part to understanding the photo.
Your rebuttal:
-dA already creates the title for you!
Retort:
-1: What if people save it to their hard drives?
-2: I personally use these pictures out of context of dA (see blog). I find it nice that dA automatically creates 3 sizes for me

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Hm.. interesting interpretation. I hadn't thought about it being a "school locker" at all actually... my high school lockers were different, much shorter and slightly more squarish... Anyway, thank you!

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Rebuttal to the Retort:
-I name the original files on my hard drive to reflect their titles on devART. Also if people save it to their hard drives the file name is called "Deviation_Title_by_Deviant"
-Are you linking the devART images here directly to other websites? You're not allowed to do that - devART can ban you for that (maybe that's not what you're talking about?)

I guess I'm just very picky and minimalist when it comes to this type of thing. You really should just ignore me if I point it out again.

haha!! you just proved my point!

It is possible for users to easily rename files, including my photos. This is exactly the problem! I want to retain the title, regardless of the filename. By including the title (and my name) into the picture itself, it makes it much harder for normal people to discredit me, or the title. Which also reminds me: the file name doesn't credit with my name, only my dA username.

Also, situations where the filename (and thus, in your situation, the title), are not present:
-Printed versions
-Desktop Background
-Fullscreen Slideshow



And/...
See this post: [link]
I use dA's resized 300px wide image as my thumbnail.

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You haven't changed my mind in the slightest, but whatever, we each have our own ways of doing things and I think what you're doing does make sense and looks pretty nice. I know I started this one, so I'll stop pestering you about it.

And I see what you mean about the thumbnail. I guessed you weren't ripping it directly off dA but I wasn't sure.

Aw, you're no fun....

Have a laugh: [link]

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Secrets ...........very cool

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