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06/13/2004 09:26:17 AM · #1 |
Hi, I took this a few weeks early for the challenge. I tried to redo it but it didn't work out, I was just wondering how people might have voted on it, and any advice/critique on the photo will be taken and appreciated. Link Below
//jaysnapshotsnpics.fotopic.net/p5133949.html
ps. hope i posted this right and in the right place
Thanks,
Angela
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06/13/2004 09:32:19 AM · #2 |
| I like it, would have gotten an 8 or 9 from me if it was in B&W + some darkening and if the kid was in the left of the frame :) |
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06/13/2004 04:19:05 PM · #3 |
I'll second the left of frame comment, or looking left from the right of frame. Seems a bit unbalanced to have him looking towards the near side of the frame.
Not sure on the B&W I'd have to see that one to comment, but definately in the 7-8 area for me if he wasn't looking the 'wrong' way, the photo looks like it's going to tip over :-). |
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06/13/2004 06:10:55 PM · #4 |
Here's the one I didn't enter, so to speak, I decided it was a bit of a loose link to waiting, and seeing as a lot of shots seem to be good by get low voted for loose links to the challenge I decided on something even more vague in the end... But you get that..
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06/13/2004 06:27:05 PM · #5 |
Originally posted by ohmark:
Here's the one I didn't enter, so to speak, I decided it was a bit of a loose link to waiting, and seeing as a lot of shots seem to be good by get low voted for loose links to the challenge I decided on something even more vague in the end... But you get that..
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I actually thought the waiting part was pretty obvious (even if it wasn't in the title---the legs and feet indicate that there are people at the curb and they could just be waiting to cross the street. It's a cool shot and if you entered it shown bigger than it is here I probably would have given it at least a 6. |
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06/13/2004 06:48:44 PM · #6 |
I love that shot ohmark
I would have scored that vert highly 9 or 10
I love the shots that are a little bit off the norm.
Great stuff
Steve |
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06/13/2004 07:21:30 PM · #7 |
Very nice photo. I would also have scored this quite high and think it would have done very well in B&W.
Keep up the good work.
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06/13/2004 09:16:16 PM · #8 |
Thanks for the positive comments folks.
Of course now I'm developing a massive complex about the shot I picked to use in the challenge as it's on 5.4something after 260 odd votes.
Oh well, that's all part of the game :-).
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06/14/2004 01:59:36 AM · #9 |
Thanks for the comments, especially about placing him left in the pic, makes perfect sense... now :)
ohmark - Excellent photo,it would have scored well in the challenge, 8 from me.
Angela |
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06/14/2004 06:32:12 AM · #10 |
Originally posted by onlyang:
Thanks for the comments, especially about placing him left in the pic, makes perfect sense... now :)
ohmark - Excellent photo,it would have scored well in the challenge, 8 from me.
Angela |
Darn, that complex is getting worse all the time :-). |
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06/14/2004 08:42:59 AM · #11 |
Angela, I think I would have scored it a touch lower: subject looking out of frame to the near side is tricky to make work - it pushes the viewer's eye out of tthe image, rather than into it: this is emphasised in a composition that doesn't include much other subject mattter. I'm not convinced by the background, and the relative placement of the kid - the far kerb-side distracts I think, though it's also useful and so a dilemma for you. Colouration though, to my eye, is a problem - really rather washed out looking: obviously you had to expose up a touch with those black clothes, but I'd have tried to use levels or something (given the basic rules) to bring either more life or simply less brightness from the pavement and the grass. perhaps even to go as far as B/W, although you'd probably be in dangeer of losing too much of the detail around the child.
Fundamentally, what it lacks to me is any kind of story - imagine that shot with a trick thundering past, or even a car! - or at least something in frame to balance and give drama to the composition. I think I'd perhaps have scored you a 5, maybe.
Ed
Message edited by author 2004-06-14 08:43:20.
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06/14/2004 08:49:00 AM · #12 |
| Personally I like the composition. The fact the child is looking out of the frame is why I get the feeling of waiting. Had the child been on the LHS looking into the frame I don't think the image would have worked nearly as well. |
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06/15/2004 08:35:29 AM · #13 |
| Thanks again for replying, points taken on the composition. I have plenty to consider when trying again. |
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06/15/2004 08:54:09 AM · #14 |
Just Waiting for Mom
Is one I would have liked to have set up again, this was my other choice, COMPLETELY different from what I entered:
Deannda
Thinking I chose the wrong one |
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