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LadeeM


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Challenge: Independence (Basic Editing III*)
Camera: Konica Minolta DiMAGE Z2
Location: My porch, Jackson, MI
Date: Jul 13, 2005
Aperture: f2.8
ISO: 50
Shutter: 1/60
Galleries: Family, Emotive
Date Uploaded: Jul 13, 2005

 An idea of independence is hard to portray in a photo. I am fiercely patriotic, and fiercely protective of my daughters. I look at this picture, and it brings tears to my eyes. Hopefully no one has to question what I am trying to portray in my photo, and I anticipate a lot of people using flags. Hopefully, we see flags from many countries. Another part of this photo has to do with my daughter(s). Each day they try to become more independent of me, at the same time they rely heavily on me and their dad.

Post Processing:
I wished this was advanced editing so I could get rid of some of the ugly stuff in the background, but I really don't notice it when looking at Cassie and the flag.
- Shadows/highlights
- Curves
- Auto levels
- Hue/Saturation (desaturated everything but the reds)
- Neatimage
- warming filter (blue)
- usm

Statistics
Place: 116 out of 139
Avg (all users): 4.7548
Avg (commenters): 5.5000
Avg (participants): 4.4615
Avg (non-participants): 4.9308
Views since voting: 639
Views during voting: 312
Votes: 208
Comments: 4
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AuthorThread
 07/29/2005 04:45:24 PM
G'day from the Critique Club.

First off i would like to say, don't be phased by 1's. Even the ribbons get a handful of them - they generally come from jaded nobodies. It is nothing to take personally.

Yoou are right in saying independance is difficult to capture in a photograph - when i saw the challenge, and no desciription i thought gosh! I feel sorry for those paid members haha. You idea translated well to an image - but the exicuition could have used a bit more work.

A little nagging question for me in this image is why is it in landscape orientation. The main elements of the photograph are enlongated (the flag and your daughter), and if anything the added background that the lanscape orientation included distracts from the image. I think you agree with me, in that you said you would have liked to get ride of the ugly background - what is that? a hole in the neighbours garage door? Its not particulalry becoming of the theme.
It would have been nice with a shallow depth of field so that the ugliness was more bokeh than "real" so to speak.

Did you selctive desat to take the attention away from the background? I personally don't find the selctive desat to work well in this photo - because it leaves your daughters skin a strange shade. Skin is made of red and yellow in a photograph - and she looks a little blotchy IMHO. I'm sure she isn't really blotchy of course!! A fade in saturation rather than a complete desat might have kept some of her true skin tones - play around with it, theres nothing to lose once the challenge is over!

The pose is lovely, and again, i compliment you on the concept.
If you have any questions or comments, feel free to PM me
Elli
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 07/24/2005 09:39:38 AM
Jeez! 5 1's! Ugh! I didn't think it was THAT bad! :)
 Comments Made During the Challenge
07/19/2005 12:27:54 AM
Interesting and surreal.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 07/17/2005 07:51:28 AM
Hmmm, The girls skin should have also been desaturated. I like the pose and the concept though.
  Photographer found comment helpful.


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