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Challenge: Greeting Cards (Advanced Editing IV)
Camera: Nikon D70s
Lens: Nikon AF Micro-Nikkor 105mm f/2.8D
Location: Logan High School
Date: Sep 25, 2005
Aperture: f/3
ISO: 400
Shutter: 1/80
Galleries: Family, Candid
Date Uploaded: Sep 25, 2005
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Here is a poem by jsas
"Thinking of You"
Visions of football
run through my head,
or maybe a game of
baseball instead.
I really would love
to play hide-n-seek.
I will count first
and try not to peek
How 'bout a long
adventurous hike,
if not a walk,
then I'll ride my bike.
I sound like a siren
with a card in my spoke.
I can be a mysterious hero
veiled by my cloak.
All of these things
I really long to do
So Daddy, come home,
I am thinking of you.
Thanks Jeff!
Original details from challenge:
Oh what a great model I have. As frustrating as it is to photograph children, it is well worth it in my opinion. I don't expect this to do as well as others, but to me it is a blue ribbon. I love taking photos of my kids, especially my boy.
I took about 120 photos of him for this challenge, with different themes in mind until I finally got back to the computer. This one just seemed to jump out, and with the category, it is perfect. |
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10/05/2005 05:43:48 PM |
::: Critique Club :::
We love our kids like nobody else and we love our kids photos like nobody else can. So don't be surprised that it didn't blue. Having said that, this is a great image for the card!
Firstly, he has that wonderful far-away expression (probably thinking "has she finished yet?" ... LOL). The desat of the colour also works. It gives the image a sort of meancholy look which I feel is very appropriate to the subject and challenge. In terms of a commercial card, kids sell. So for all sorts of reasons, yes the image did deserve to score higher. That it didn't I believe is not a reflection on what it would sell like.
If there is any fault I can find with it , it might be in the lighting. It is well lit, maybe too well lit. I suspect you used the on-camera for some fill? The result often of this is a flattening of an image because all the shadows are gone. If its not fill flash then it is maybe half a stop overexposed.
To ribbon? I dislike the option of having to create a wow factor just for the sake of a score when you already have something that does the job it set out to do. I would try a little thirds in the composition whcih would mean moving him down and right in frame until the gross between his eyes fell on the top right thirds intersecting lines.
Brett
Message edited by author 2005-10-06 01:57:57. |
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10/02/2005 06:24:06 PM |
| I really like this, great pose, full of emotion. |
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09/30/2005 11:40:55 PM |
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09/30/2005 04:07:26 PM |
| Very nice emotive feel but a little soft on focus. |
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09/27/2005 03:40:19 PM |
| This seems like a very likeable and well taken family portrait but I cant see it doing well as a sellable greeting card. |
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09/27/2005 12:12:31 AM |
| Nice capure, I don't really like the desat of this picture. I really don't know what I would have done diferent. But to me it seems a little to dreary. |
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09/26/2005 06:46:52 PM |
| Interesting coloring and nice expression |
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