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Challenge: Live Music (Basic Editing III)
Camera: Canon EOS-1D Mark II
Lens: Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS USM
Location: San Mateo County Fair, California
Date: Aug 16, 2005
Aperture: 2.8
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/400
Galleries: Candid
Date Uploaded: Aug 16, 2005

 These are two of the four "California Girls" onstage at the San Mateo County Fair, California, playing a surfer riff. Just did some basic levels and curves here. There are a number of things I don't like with this shot but this is the best of my set and since this is only my third entry I decided to enter it anyway to see how it'd score. I should have framed it better to remove the empty space between the characters and the color lights on top; made sure the guitar was not framed off; and compensated correctly for the sunlight beaming in from the left.

Statistics
Place: 136 out of 210
Avg (all users): 4.8169
Avg (commenters): 4.7000
Avg (participants): 4.5125
Avg (non-participants): 4.9091
Views since voting: 757
Views during voting: 478
Votes: 344
Comments: 12
Favorites: 0

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 Comments Made During the Challenge
08/23/2005 11:20:51 AM
Interesting composition with the colored lights at the top.
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 08/22/2005 06:27:37 PM
Nice shot, could have cropped the top out a bit IMHO. 7
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 08/22/2005 05:29:56 PM
great expression on the guitarist's face, but too much other stuff in the picture distracting from it. could have used a tighter crop.
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 08/21/2005 11:46:35 AM
good colors and composition
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 08/20/2005 05:55:50 PM
Her hair looks slightly blown, but otherwise a great photo.
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 08/19/2005 03:39:10 AM
Needs a closer crop
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 08/19/2005 01:57:20 AM
You cut off the guitar neck and the main subject appears to be looking out of the frame. Perhaps a horizontal would have been more apropriate.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 08/18/2005 01:08:24 PM
Personally I would have crop'd the fuzzy lights off the top. A little distacting.
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 08/17/2005 02:18:24 PM
Composition is all over the place, not sure what we're meant to be focusing on. Bassist looking out of the frame leads viewer's eye out of the photo. I'm missing the headstock on the bass. Placement of subjects in photo feels very unbalanced.
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 08/17/2005 01:28:41 PM
There's too much extra space at the top of the photo
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 08/17/2005 11:33:23 AM
really grainy feel to the lights...odd effect...

are these twins?
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 08/17/2005 10:24:46 AM
A little out of focus. I would have liked a little cropped off the top. Nice capture however.
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