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Challenge: Weekend (Advanced Editing V)
Collection: People
Camera: Nikon D200
Lens: Tamron AF 18-200mm f/3.5-6.3 XR Di II for Nikon
Location: Washington, DC
Date: Jul 1, 2007
Aperture: f/4.5
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/40
Galleries: Candid, Black and White
Date Uploaded: Jul 1, 2007

 A shot from the Smithsonian Folklife Festival's Mekong River crafts area. I don't know that I'd be all that cheerful entertaining tourists in that position for hours!

Since I exposed for the basketweaver and not the crowd I blew out all the tourists. I could have tried to crop out the blown people, but I rather like the solid reality of the people practicing ancient crafts vs. the ghostlike modern tourists. B&W enhanced that effect to my eye. We'll see what the voters think. Just need one person to see what I saw and I'll be happy.

PP - converted from RAW, cropped, converted to duotone, increased contrast, dodged/burned eye on main subject, added border, resized, sharpened

Statistics
Place: 137 out of 215
Avg (all users): 5.3551
Avg (commenters): 6.0000
Avg (participants): 5.1698
Avg (non-participants): 5.5370
Views since voting: 699
Views during voting: 167
Votes: 107
Comments: 9
Favorites: 0

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AuthorThread
 07/09/2007 01:10:39 AM
Hey, blowing out all the tourists aint such a bad thing. ;-) Good job overall.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
07/07/2007 08:42:01 PM
A bit bright.
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 07/04/2007 01:13:54 PM
This looks like the guys that were in Washington, D.C. Or was that Washington DPC? Very nice: 9
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 07/04/2007 01:38:11 AM
Did I not just see this guy in another picture???
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 07/03/2007 11:01:43 AM
A tighter crop without the partial people in the background would have improvied the shot
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 07/02/2007 08:43:33 PM
How does this relate to your weekend? Is this you? The blown out portions kill a photograph that was already shoehorned into this challenge. DNMC=1

edit;
I am sensing that you went to a fair or a festival to take this photo. In that sense I can see how this photo relates to your weekend. I do wish that you had tied this into your title somehow. the blown out highlights still detract from what is an interesting craftsman.

Taking into consideration the phoito itself, I would have probably voted it a 6 with the highlights and lighting the way it is. Because I feel you didn't convey to me the challenge, I am upping my original DNMC=1 to a 5, but will not give you the 6 I would have otherwise voted.
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 07/02/2007 08:17:03 PM
The blown out BG doesn't matter a bit. Great job of catching the artisan at work.
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 07/02/2007 12:27:51 PM
i like this high key bw, it seems appropriate here
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 07/02/2007 08:36:10 AM
Was thinking it was blown out in the highlights, but I think I quite like the effect. Nice
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