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elru21


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Challenge: Mirrors (Advanced Editing II)
Camera: Fujifilm FinePix S5000 Z
Location: Home
Date: Sep 12, 2004
Date Uploaded: Sep 12, 2004

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Statistics
Place: 100 out of 140
Avg (all users): 4.9774
Avg (commenters): 7.0000
Avg (participants): 5.0115
Avg (non-participants): 4.9444
Views since voting: 618
Views during voting: 272
Votes: 177
Comments: 5
Favorites: 0


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09/24/2004 12:31:58 PM
*critique club*

Greetings!

First of the bat, I'll bet you're wondering why you got 4 positive comments yet a score of under 5. I'll try and answer that here. But before we begin, I looked at your 'baby botanist' tryptich and my wife said 'kawaii' and 'toriaizu, taberu ne', which means 'cute, I like that' and 'just for the moment, I'll try eating it (as babies do)'. Fun shots, and they'll be a welcome addition to your family album.

Compositionally, your photo is fine. You've got two very clear sections, the one with the action and the other, neatly set off by the background grass, showing the reflection. You've shown the challenge theme well here. You needed to realise the negative strength of the top left side: having so much out of the main focal range and in such an important area makes the whole photo feel like a snapshot, not a winning DPC entry. The arm, placed where it is bang right in the centre, brightly coloured and having such a strong line, is a clear candidate for the main subject, even though it's not. So, compositionally, you needed to deal with that problem by cropping. If I had had the same file, I might have used a horizontal cropping, using only a touch of the unreflected head, extending rightways to the mirror and deleting everything unhelpful.

I feel that the greenery is too dark for the bright mood intended. I don't know which software you use, but all allow for overall brightening and some allow for spot brightening. I'd brighten and blur the grass a bit.

Computer processing is obvious on the shirt sleeve on the bottom left. It looks unnatural. (Cropping it out would save a lot of heartache) but otherwise, you need to be careful how you deal with pure whites in digital photography.

The last point I'd like to make is about the face in the mirror. Simply put, the more the better.

I'll put up an edited version of your photo in my portfolio for a while. Look at it and tell me what you think. It's 'elru1.jpg'.

Best wishes,

Jim

ps. My edit isn't at all perfect, just a few strokes to show the ideas I've mentioned here.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
09/18/2004 08:02:29 AM
what a fun image. bet it looks great on your wall! great colors, focus, dof.
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09/14/2004 07:57:55 PM
the kids hand needs to be a little lower so you can see the face but it's a cute picture
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09/13/2004 05:30:57 AM
this is soooo cute! well captured!
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09/13/2004 12:33:40 AM
This is an adorable photo! I'd like if it were just a tad warmer in colour, but it meets the challenge, and it's nicely composed.
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