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Challenge: Candid II (Advanced Editing III)
Camera: Canon EOS-10D
Location: Sullivan St. Toronto, Ontario
Date: Dec 31, 2004
Aperture: f3.5
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/180
Galleries: Candid, Black and White
Date Uploaded: Jan 2, 2005

 I was on my way to Chinatown to take candids of the people in the marketplace when I saw this man rummaging inside a garbage bin. I had no trouble getting closer to take a photo with my 50mm lens. I walked past him, still he didn't notice me and when I looked back he had put the cover of the bin back and was about to grab his cart, empty handed. Apparently there were no treasures to be found.
I thought the photo was a little amusing although the circumstances were sad.

Shot in raw mode.

Post processing:
levels, curves
cloned out a piece of the front of a fire hydrant with a chain attached to it
converted to black and white in channel mixer
dodged and burned a few areas to increase contrast
colorized with a very very faint sepia tone.
neat image
cropped
resized
border

Canon 50mm f1.8


Statistics
Place: 17 out of 173
Avg (all users): 6.2524
Avg (commenters): 7.2308
Avg (participants): 6.1279
Avg (non-participants): 6.3387
Views since voting: 1048
Views during voting: 318
Votes: 210
Comments: 17
Favorites: 2 (view)

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 01/12/2005 11:04:15 PM
Congrats on top 20 man, very good candid you got here!
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 01/10/2005 10:54:06 AM
congrats on Top 20! very emotive capture!
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 01/10/2005 12:32:25 AM
Congratulations on your 18th placing with this treasure hunt gem.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
01/09/2005 10:53:35 PM
Very good story..
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 01/09/2005 02:38:49 PM
Very well observed, illustrates this person's situation quite well...
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 01/09/2005 11:41:17 AM
Great title, well composed -- a nine!
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 01/09/2005 07:24:33 AM
For a garbage-hunter those are some pretty fly pants. His coat looks tidy, too. I bet he's looking for throw-away Christmas presents to sell on Ebay.
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 01/06/2005 10:12:23 AM
Great, fun, yet touching. B&W suits it very well.
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 01/05/2005 03:08:28 AM
Nice!!
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 01/04/2005 06:18:01 AM
Nice shot. Masybe a bit too much background? Try cropping it down from the top to square? All that receding detail is working against the subject.
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 01/04/2005 12:06:53 AM
Classic! Too bad your snow is blown out. What a hard exposure to get quickly. Nicely done though. Did you at least throw they guy a buck?
TC
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 01/03/2005 09:57:25 PM
That bums shoes looks awefully shiney....Nice capture. Very interesting dive hes doing! Good choice on making this black and white. Think it would have lost a lot in color.
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 01/03/2005 11:16:24 AM
Very effective in b/w. Good luck.
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 01/03/2005 05:32:36 AM
This is a great Candid shot, I feel the background is distracting. loosing the top third of this image would still give the pathway dissapearing on the Right hand side but would place more awaremness on the "Bin Raider"
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 01/03/2005 05:11:43 AM
nicely captured shot
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 01/03/2005 03:01:17 AM
Pretty good.
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 01/03/2005 01:17:15 AM
i like this one!
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