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Challenge: People II (Advanced Editing IV)
Camera: Canon EOS-300D Rebel
Location: Yemen
Date: Apr 17, 2005
Aperture: 1/8
ISO: 400
Shutter: 320
Galleries: Candid, Portraiture
Date Uploaded: Apr 17, 2005

Taken in Sanaa in Yemen, happy young man driving with his friend allowed me to take a shot of them.

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Place: 95 out of 251
Avg (all users): 5.6872
Avg (commenters): 6.5556
Avg (participants): 5.5294
Avg (non-participants): 5.8387
Views since voting: 763
Views during voting: 335
Votes: 243
Comments: 21
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04/30/2005 01:33:23 PM
[Critique club]
Jæjja, nú er íslendingur kominn í Critique club :)

I like this picture and it is a excelent portrait and everyting so lets go through the steps that I have seen from other Critique club members.

Composition:
Its a nice image and the guys position in the frame is good but the thing that I can find on it is that the guy behind his head is kinda distracting so you might have cropped him away or tried to get rid of him into some black mist made with curves or higlight burn.

Lighting:
Ligting is cool, dunno if you used a fill flash but the light puts the attention straight at his face

Post-Processing:
This is something that this picture is lacking I think. You could have worked this picture very much better with different settings like curves, levels, dodge and burn. You should use it to your advantage that it is a memberchallenge so that you can truly use the whole spectra of the rules.

Suggestion/Improvements:
Nothing much I can say to improve but to burn the guy behind him away :) Other then that a very nice portrait.

Vonandi hjálpar þetta eithvað :) og gangi þér vel í keppnunum og mundu að við erum með okkar eigin íslensku útgáfu af þessu :) Getur séð meira um það í prófælnum mínum :)
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
04/24/2005 11:48:11 PM
great capture, really photojournalistic. 9
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04/24/2005 09:51:19 PM
Good composition and depth of field chosen here.
Image could be just a little sharper, which would be a little more relaxing on my eyes as they try and find the natural sweet spot in the shot (his eyes).
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04/24/2005 07:48:17 PM
Ha Ha....nice photo.
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04/24/2005 07:40:34 PM
I would crop a little off the right. The person behind him is distracting.
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04/24/2005 06:03:41 PM
The man behind his head is a little distracting. Great shot though.
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04/24/2005 02:17:48 PM
Nice twinkle in those eyes! I think I'd have cropped out the guy behind him.
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04/24/2005 12:13:59 PM
Great subject but slightly out of focus.
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04/24/2005 09:10:54 AM
Great shot of a regular-guy. I'm a sucker for shots of people in turbans, for some reason. Maybe it's the bit of mystery it adds along with the foreign component. [10]
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04/24/2005 07:32:39 AM
Good use of image size. Interesting subject. I like the eyes.
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04/24/2005 02:46:33 AM
Focus feels a little soft, but a really nice expression and nice patterns and colors.
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04/24/2005 01:13:08 AM
nice candid, a bit soft though. 6
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04/22/2005 05:33:57 PM
Missed the focus! Would ahve been much better had it been tack sharp.
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04/20/2005 02:57:30 PM
Nice moment. Could have been more effective with some more processing, I think.. dodge the eyes, maybe even convert to B/w?
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04/19/2005 11:18:52 PM
Good expression, but I would like to see a tighter focus on the eyes
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04/19/2005 08:26:55 AM
Very nice. Reminds me of the male version of that famous National Geographic shot of the woman in Afghanistan.
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04/19/2005 12:08:11 AM
Very good work. Nice pic.
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04/18/2005 05:35:13 PM
This is great. Usually you see this kind of dress with very serious somber faces. This is refreshing and draws you in! Good job!
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04/18/2005 09:00:25 AM
And it shows, nice moment!
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04/18/2005 06:48:05 AM
Delightful study - pity about the other face in the background.
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04/18/2005 06:26:15 AM
As soon as it came up on screen I thought it was ever so slightly motion blurred. Now in studying it I can see that his eyes are sharp, his headwear is relatively sharp, but perhaps the pattern is tricking my eye- it can't seem to settle on the image. Great capture though.
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