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Walk This Way
Walk This Way
MaryO


Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Shoes II (Advanced Editing VII)
Collection: Westminster 2010
Camera: Nikon D700
Lens: Sigma 100-300mm F/4.0 EX IF HSM for Nikon
Location: New York, NY
Date: Feb 16, 2010
Aperture: f/5.6
ISO: 6400
Shutter: 1/400
Galleries: Animals
Date Uploaded: Feb 19, 2010

 A Toy Poodle (or walking topiary, as Jutilda says) following the shiny shoes of his handler.

I'm just so tickled that I could get a shot like this with only the spotlighting in the arena as lighting. The shoes may not be prominent enough for some voters but I just love the similarity in the gaits of handler and dog and the shadows.

PP - tonemapped the shoes and dog in qtpfsgui (pregamma 0.697, mantiuk method, contrast mapping 0.1, saturation factor 1.087, detail factor 1), merged with main image at 90% transparency, cropped, white balance, increased contrast, dodged/burnt a bit, gradient on top, resized, sharpened, added border.

Statistics
Place: 31 out of 138
Avg (all users): 5.8708
Avg (commenters): 6.8333
Avg (participants): 5.7250
Avg (non-participants): 5.9898
Views since voting: 1219
Views during voting: 349
Votes: 178
Comments: 26
Favorites: 1 (view)

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 03/08/2010 09:01:36 PM
I see you made it through the snow to the show!! How fun, and what a fun shot!
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 03/03/2010 12:31:49 AM
I thought this delightful and completely in the spirit of the challenge! Light is perfect, stride is perfect, and footwear is lovely on both subjects. Glad you and Judy had a great time, too.
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 03/01/2010 08:43:40 PM
If only everybody would comment.
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 03/01/2010 02:11:45 PM
This is an awesome shot. Love how the poodle is suspended in air and the handler's toe/heel are barely touching the ground. The shadows are amazing.
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 03/01/2010 12:14:56 AM
I'm with Jeb. This is terrific. Nice not to take the challenge so literally. :)
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 03/01/2010 12:05:35 AM
I still think this is stunning, vastly underrated and underappreciated. That whole "Spring in his step" and the poodle airborne just convey such a sense of style and flair. BTWE, how did the dog do in the show?
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
02/28/2010 10:58:49 PM
The top border cut the picture in an unappealing way.
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 02/28/2010 10:04:55 PM
I don't mean to say anything bad about your entry but here is what I see when I look at this entry.

The lighting is off on the man, you can barely see his legs and his left hand looks like it's coming out of the white border. Not to mention the right hand which looks odd over there all by itself. Don't get me wrong the dog is cute and all with the hair cut but at the same time I think you focused more on the dog then the mans shoes.

In my eyes this shot looks like something that was just snapped at a dog show without any thought. I think when you got home you looked at your photos and saw the shoes and thought "hey why not".

Granted I don't know the story behind this shot and I don't know what your intentions actually were but isn't the point of a photograph to tell a story and the story in this photo tells me more about the dog with a hint of the guy walking the dog, nothing about the shoes he is wearing.

Good luck during the challenge I'm very interested to see where this places.

{no vote just comment}
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 02/28/2010 09:42:16 PM
Westminster? You must have had a great seat. Great job with catching the poodle mid-air.
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 02/28/2010 02:37:24 PM
super great....you caught the doggie in perfect stride.
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 02/26/2010 05:03:42 PM
Oh wow - this is just so funny. Love the shadows!
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 02/26/2010 03:29:57 PM
Nice photo; but for me the the way the mans lefs blend into the background is a real distration. Probably your intention though to put the eye on the shoes - but my eye goes straight to the dog! And what a great dog it is! :-)
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 02/25/2010 02:16:35 AM
great capture, love the high contrast
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 02/24/2010 08:48:59 PM
that's a lovely dog and it seems happy too. happy animals=happy scores
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 02/24/2010 04:33:59 PM
Wicked haircut :-)
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 02/23/2010 10:04:55 PM
I don't like letterbox framing! And if you've got to do it, don't beat me over the head with it with such a bold white frame edge!! But I'm setting this aside because this is such a terrific image!!! It fun. It's humorous. It tells a story. Possibly best of show.
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 02/23/2010 09:24:32 AM
wonderful idea in this challenge!
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 02/23/2010 12:02:37 AM
this is a very interesting photograph!!! i have no clue how you would be able to stage it like that, but it looks amazing!!!
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 02/22/2010 11:03:32 PM
I think youve lost the way the emphisis is on the dog the shoe side is secondary Interesting if others agree
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 02/22/2010 09:46:56 PM
Not really seeing the shoes so much as the dog. The light and the composition force me to think that the poodle is the subject.
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 02/22/2010 02:16:22 PM
I'm torn. I love this picture, but not in this challenge. The shoes and legs are almost completely black, so that the shoes don't stand out at all. So it seems like the picture is of the dog.
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 02/22/2010 01:13:39 PM
In the ring with your pooch. However, it is clear that not the shoes, but poochie is the main subject in this photograph. Although she looks terrific, perfectly groomed and oh so fluffy, the shoes don't succeed in getting the attention you want them to have by entering this photograph.
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 02/22/2010 09:42:45 AM
Borderline for the challenge maybe, but a very nice shot nevertheless.
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 02/22/2010 08:29:26 AM
Absolutely, positively, STUNNING!!! 10.....10......10!!!!
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 02/22/2010 02:14:47 AM
Nice photo and well timed. At first I didn't think it quite met the challenge as I was focusing on the handler's shoes. But then it occured to me to look at the dog's fury shoes. Good luck.
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 02/22/2010 01:30:49 AM
Too cute. Very nicely done. Focus is all on the dog though, not the shoes.
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