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Challenge: Candid II (Advanced Editing III)
Camera: Canon Digital IXUS v3
Location: Clevedon - UK
Date: Dec 28, 2004
Aperture: f7.1
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/200
Galleries: Candid, Rural
Date Uploaded: Dec 29, 2004

Rotated to Straighten Horizon.
Contrast, Colour Balance and USM.

Fisherman Standing on Clevedon Pier in Somerset- UK
They are a dedicated lot, as it was blooming cold, with a bracing wind when I shot this.

Statistics
Place: 88 out of 173
Avg (all users): 5.3894
Avg (commenters): 8.0000
Avg (participants): 5.1765
Avg (non-participants): 5.5366
Views since voting: 723
Views during voting: 299
Votes: 208
Comments: 5
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01/16/2005 12:46:45 PM
*** CRITIQUE CLUB COMMENT ***

This is a generally appealing image that does not really have any areas I can dive into for constructive criticism except 2 things that occur to me:

1. It seems a little oversaturated to me. The sky's so blue, the hat's so red, the dayglo jacket's so dayglo. The overall effect is so cartoonish that it's hard to take an emotional sense from this. In your comments you mention it was "bloomning cols with a bracing wind." I get no sense of either from the photo.

2. On the nit level, it's unfortunate that the seated figure on the right is sprouting the lamppost from his head. That figure is a key element in the composition; without him it's much more static. I find it intriguing that one of your ammenters says that figure is a liability; IMO, the complete opposite is true.

Speaking of the image specifically from the POV of the challenge it was entered in, I think it may have suffered from not having what I would consider a "true" candid feel. For me, a "true" candid carries some sort of an emotional overtone, and this is lacking in that aspect. There's no tension, no faces to speak of, no emotion at all.

In a more general sense, the composition, while pleasant enough, is entirely static. It's not "bad" composition (It has good diagonals, good intersections, a prominent foreground object, etc) but it's not really "going" anywhere exciting.

Altogether, a competent but unremarkable image, nothing to get excited about but nothing to discard in despair either.

Keep on shooting!

Robt.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
01/09/2005 12:35:54 PM
Beautiful photo with great colors -- a ten.
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01/08/2005 09:24:06 PM
Interesting picture and the color is very nice too. I would like to give a higher point if I do not see the man sitting at the right.
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01/06/2005 09:50:52 PM
I like this photo, it captures the moment and your attention.
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01/03/2005 02:37:04 AM
Accurate title. I like how the guy on the right in the background is relaxing on the bench. It helps with the theme of your photograph.
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