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Photographer's Comments |
Challenge: Cemetery (Advanced Editing IV)
Camera: Canon EOS-20D
Location: Woodlawn Memorial Cemetary, Elmira, New York
Date: Mar 27, 2005
Aperture: f /14
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/160 sec.
Galleries: Family
Date Uploaded: Mar 27, 2005
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I chose this photo, not because I thought it was a winner, but because I thought it was important enough to share and I was hoping people would take a moment to learn a small piece of history from my local community. A caring man, a run-away slave, a man who touched and effected the lives of thousands of families throughout the our nation. He is the man who recorded and cataloged information about men who died in the Elmira Prison, during the civil war. Information such as Names, ranks, and homes of captured prisoners so that they could later be found and identifed by their families. The compasionate man, John Jones, kept records of and carefully buried each Confederate prisoner who died here in Elmira. His care and compasion are symbolized in this photo. The sadest part is only a fraction of the nearly 3000 graves are captured in this photo.
Slight cropping. Very little was done to edit this photo other than removing some fallen leaves which were lying in the grass, and boosting the contrast slighly. |
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04/03/2005 11:47:55 PM |
| Nice job incorporating the story with the headstones. This is a very interesting entry - 7 |
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04/03/2005 01:11:27 PM |
| the back of the text runs out of the focal plane, making the main focus of the composition hard to read. |
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04/02/2005 10:39:17 AM |
| This is my second go-around =) - very touching! Thanks for photographing this. |
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04/01/2005 08:17:05 AM |
| It seems like the graveyard is falling out of the picture. A bit dull? |
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03/31/2005 09:09:26 PM |
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03/31/2005 07:55:45 AM |
| Interesting story - but the interest largely comes from the words, not the image as a whole. Horizon is slanting. Background is distracting (too much detail behind trees) |
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03/30/2005 11:31:34 AM |
I am making two passes on this Challenge. I will vote on your photo then return later(before voting is over) to comment on what I like and dislike about your shot. You can take the comments however you wish and I will try not to be mean. Just don't take it the wrong way.
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Nice interesting read. Nice story. I like it. Bumping up. |
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03/29/2005 09:38:42 AM |
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03/29/2005 09:09:38 AM |
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03/28/2005 11:48:57 AM |
| This is an emotive memorial - a good find. I would have tried to level the horizon, or perhaps find an angle that eliminates the the area beyond the last row. |
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03/28/2005 08:06:51 AM |
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03/28/2005 02:54:35 AM |
| Very interesting story, but I'm afraid that the photo as a photo is a bit weak in composition. |
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