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Challenge: Darkness (Basic Editing III)
Collection: Portfolio
Camera: Olympus D-490Z
Location: Oakland, California, USA
Date: Jun 12, 2005
Aperture: 4.1
ISO: 137
Shutter: 1/80
Galleries: Urban, Photojournalism
Date Uploaded: Jun 13, 2005

 A homeless man on the way to his current abode under the freeway. Although there's a large patch of light, it is fenced-off and forbidden to him ...

@ Crop to 3:2 ratio
@ RGB Curve
@ Resize for DPC
@ USM at 16%/64 dia/TH=0
@ USM at 66%/0.6 dia/TH=5
@ SaveAs JPEG quality = 8/10

Statistics
Place: 345 out of 373
Avg (all users): 3.8405
Avg (commenters): 3.0000
Avg (participants): 3.6615
Avg (non-participants): 3.9766
Views since voting: 1017
Views during voting: 441
Votes: 301
Comments: 6
Favorites: 0

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 07/02/2005 09:42:36 PM
I can see where you're coming from with the title and the connection to darkness...it's unfortunate that the average DPC voter doesn't make the kinds of connections necessary to do so in an average 2 second viewing. The large patch of light is enough for most to say "DNMC" and click the 4 or below. I like the composition; the left side feels a bit crowded from the pillar running along there. I think if you had shot it at twilight, a step or so more to your right, this image would have scored higher for you. :)
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 06/22/2005 04:28:45 PM
Originally posted by LadeeM:
I gave this a low score (higher than your average, tho), mainly because I didn't get it. I thought it was a child "headed home". I did get the feeling of poverty, which I connected to the darkness theme. I can imagine it's hard to get a photo of a homeless person. Alone, it's a good photo, but coupled with the other dark photos of this challenge, it didn't really stand out much. However, I think it deserved better than a 3.8. That's just silly! :)

Thanks. I thought that one patch of darkness, especially with that bright line leading straight to it, would be enough "physical darkness" to qualify.

The far more important connection to the topic is the metaphorical one, that in the richest and most powerful country in the world, able-bodied men are reduced to sleeping under freeways. The houses up the street, less than 100 feet away, are selling for over a half-million dollars.
 06/22/2005 08:57:46 AM
I gave this a low score (higher than your average, tho), mainly because I didn't get it. I thought it was a child "headed home". I did get the feeling of poverty, which I connected to the darkness theme. I can imagine it's hard to get a photo of a homeless person. Alone, it's a good photo, but coupled with the other dark photos of this challenge, it didn't really stand out much. However, I think it deserved better than a 3.8. That's just silly! :)
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
06/18/2005 08:10:44 PM
The model is too centered... and the weeds almost overtake the boy in terms of importance in the scene.
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 06/17/2005 01:33:50 AM
darkness?
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 06/16/2005 08:40:46 PM
Can't see how this meets the challenge as the shadows aren't very deep. Odd bit of lens flair on there was well. 2
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