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Challenge: Poverty (Basic Editing I)
Camera: Nikon Coolpix 3100
Location: Ottawa, Canada
Date: Oct 21, 2004
Galleries: Urban, Persuasive
Date Uploaded: Oct 21, 2004

 While discussing DPCPrints as a means to fundraise for our next camera, we photographed someone asking for change in front of a coffee shop. We used the automatic Mountains panoramic setting to shoot through the window.

Statistics
Place: 132 out of 171
Avg (all users): 4.3799
Avg (commenters): 3.9375
Avg (participants): 4.0833
Avg (non-participants): 4.4911
Views since voting: 941
Views during voting: 487
Votes: 308
Comments: 19
Favorites: 0

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 Comments Made During the Challenge
11/02/2004 12:37:46 PM
A friend of mine was watching while I was voting & didn't like your photo (sorry!), but I do - I like the framing hand in the foreground, that echoes the gentleman sitting in the background. I detect some distracting glare like you were behind glass, so I'm giving a 9.
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 11/01/2004 08:19:41 AM
I don't really get what the hand stands for... My eyes are looking at it filliing more then 50% of the frame and barely get the guy outside. There is also some bad reflection of the window you took the pic through. Sorry... 3
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 10/31/2004 11:55:05 PM
Interesting perspective.
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 10/31/2004 03:13:11 PM
Would like to have seen more of the cup, or the cup and hand unfocused and a tighter shot on the person in the background.
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 10/31/2004 02:43:09 PM
With a title of empty cup,one would expect to see a cup. The item in the hand is too much out of focus to distinguish. Because of this one has to assume that the person on the floor s the main subject in this photograph. However I do not get an impression of poverty here.
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 10/30/2004 07:12:23 PM
I like the perspective but would have liked less hand and arm and more of the sitting man.
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 10/29/2004 04:38:27 PM
Apart from not seeing any real any real evidence of poverty in this photo, I find it cluttered and the reflections in the glass only add to the confusion.
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 10/29/2004 07:56:39 AM
OH, COME ON !! --2--
 10/29/2004 07:55:59 AM
it took me more than a glance to 'get it'. i think this would have worked better if you backed off and up just enough to make it more apparent that you are inside. also, you could use a little more dof.
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 10/29/2004 05:28:40 AM
Nice attempt. I think more of your cup and greater depth of field would have mad for better juxtaposition. 5
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 10/28/2004 05:09:18 PM
nice watch though.
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 10/28/2004 12:56:14 PM
The photo seems a bit distracting.

Also, with the front left being quite OOF it doesn't make any impact on me.
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 10/28/2004 09:17:50 AM
The main subject of this pic seems to be the hand which is out of focus.
The person in the background doesn't look poor at all and the title makes the whole thing even more confusing. I don't understand what your idea was, and honestly am affraid not many people will.
Better luck next time.
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 10/28/2004 04:55:26 AM
Nice idea, but your arm in the forground really distracts.
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 10/28/2004 04:41:07 AM
an interesting image I like the framing effect you have
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 10/27/2004 02:38:33 PM
I don't know if this photo is about the cup in the foreground or the background. If it's about the one in the foreground, it's oddly cropped and should be in focus. If it's the one in the background, I think the foreground image is distracting.
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 10/27/2004 12:29:05 PM
I had to look twice to find the subject of this shot. I'm guessing you were trying to not draw attention shooting over your arm and thu a window.. And that's what it looks like, like a picture a PI would take while tailing someone. The arm in the foreground just takes up so much space, the blue on the part of the sleave in focus draws the eye and it falls one of the axises of the 'thirds' . While the subject is up in the corner leaving the frame. I think it would have been improved a lot by some cropping.
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 10/27/2004 04:14:41 AM
I like the perspective of this shot. Has an intereesting balance.
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 10/27/2004 01:00:45 AM
Not sure where the important part of the image is. The dominant part, the arm, is blurry, but the sharper portion is very small in comparison. I don't know where the empty cup is.
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