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Challenge: Candid IV (Advanced Editing V)
Collection: 2007
Camera: Canon EOS-20D
Lens: Canon EF 70-300mm f/4.5-5.6 DO IS USM
Location: Zaanse Schans (NL)
Date: Jun 9, 2007
Aperture: f/10.0
ISO: 400
Shutter: 1/500 s
Date Uploaded: Jun 10, 2007

It's always nice photographing here.

Cropped, converted to B&W, raw conversion, noise reduction, level adjustment, resized and sharpened.

Statistics
Place: 152 out of 448
Avg (all users): 5.6620
Avg (commenters): 6.2857
Avg (participants): 5.6400
Avg (non-participants): 5.7143
Views since voting: 1005
Views during voting: 225
Votes: 142
Comments: 8
Favorites: 0


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06/16/2007 11:54:11 AM
This is too funny. I think a slightly tighter crop on the right would make it feel more balanced, though.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
06/15/2007 10:50:12 AM
Cool photo, it would be even better if you could have caught all three of them taking a bite at the same time...
  Photographer found comment helpful.
06/13/2007 04:52:40 PM
First impression, 5.

Man, is that girl on the right going to stick that whole thing in her mouth? That could be a compelling image right there.

Sharpness, constrast, and B&W treatment seem appropriate. Composition leaves something to be desired though, I feel like there is too much empty space around the sides. It'd be one thing if it gave a sense of place, but they seem to be sitting by a fence. Just cropping out the right side (from her backpack on) and a little from the left (from his cone on) would make the image more visually pleasing, I think.

This is obviously a candid, but even candids need to be centered around an idea. In this case, I find the guy on the left distracting, because he's not eating. The image has its interesting points (the two girls) but I don't think the guy adds much. An extreme crop of just the two girls' faces and hands (or just the girl on the right) might be interesting. It wouldn't do as well on DPC (voter don't seem to like gross as much) but it'd get the point across.

So, yeah, I'll stick with a 5. You have something here, but it needed a tighter crop to really drive the point home.

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  Photographer found comment helpful.
06/13/2007 04:37:30 PM
the three of them doing the same thing makes a nice tableau for me.
06/13/2007 02:58:52 AM
Lovely moment in time capture. Only minor issue is that there appears to be something like an upside down heart over the three people, which is a little distracting. I dont think its part of the general background...Perhaps a bit of dodging and burning to remove this might have helped. Even as it is a strong 7
  Photographer found comment helpful.
06/12/2007 08:25:58 PM
Nice conversion to B&W, nice tones and a great candid shot.
06/11/2007 11:09:01 PM
Good capture...but maybe crop in to just around their elbows and facial areas.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
06/11/2007 02:52:22 AM
Nice capture - Like the faces. Nice spot.


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