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Mother and Child
Mother and Child
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Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Free Study IX (Advanced Editing IV)
Camera: Canon EOS-20D
Lens: Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM
Location: Thirukovil
Date: Nov 4, 2005
Aperture: f/2.8
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/100 sec
Galleries: Portraiture
Date Uploaded: Nov 6, 2005

 Mother raises 9 children, only 4 of whom are hers. The others are either orphans after the tsunami disasters, or kids whose parents have had to go overseas to find jobs after the disaster took everything they had. Because mother wasn't directly affected by the tsunami -- and because NGOs' fund-raising campaigns are often very specifically worded, and because many public donors are under-educated about charitable giving and give not because they think it is a responsibility, but rather because they were "moved" by one disaster or another -- mother isn't qualified to get tsunami aid.

To those who commented on the eyes, there was no processing done on them. I just adjusted colors and contrast values, and then USMed a little bit. Thanks anyway, though.

Maybe I should have neatimaged the bejeezus out of it. NOT.

Statistics
Place: 194 out of 519
Avg (all users): 5.7113
Avg (commenters): 6.8182
Avg (participants): 5.6287
Avg (non-participants): 5.9146
Views since voting: 669
Views during voting: 400
Votes: 284
Comments: 14
Favorites: 0

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AuthorThread
 12/09/2005 09:37:00 AM
Thanks for the comments. No processing on the eyes. I wonder why some would specifically mention them as if they're strange, or something.
 12/08/2005 03:06:24 PM
Another favorite from this challenge that has been under-rated. Dang!
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
12/07/2005 11:16:54 PM
Awesome colors and composition. The child is so pure looking and the adult looks like she does not know what may happen next but there appears to be a glint of hope in her eye under her look of apparent disappointment. Would like to see what you wrote about. Very well done.
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 12/07/2005 06:47:07 PM
The eyes seem overdone to me.
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 12/06/2005 08:55:59 PM
Great candid expressions and effective post processing. I like how the woman's forearm acts like a frame, and leads one's eyes up her arm to her face.
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 12/06/2005 01:10:18 PM
The boys eyes dont seem perfectly focused, think that´s important. Not totaly satisfied with the framing. Othervise a fine image.
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 12/05/2005 09:54:30 AM
Very very nice image. I like the close crop, how the child looks directly in the camera and is clearly the focus, yet the mother is also there and also in focus, but looking away. Great colors and expressions, too. Congratulations on a wonderful shot!
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 12/04/2005 08:11:25 PM
Well done emotive shot. Like it a lot.8
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 12/04/2005 04:04:15 PM
gorgeous photograph
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 12/04/2005 02:06:47 AM
Love his eyes. Why does she look so sad?
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 12/02/2005 07:46:57 PM
May be heavy on yellow tint...
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 12/01/2005 06:51:52 AM
Poor kid got implanted eyes !
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 12/01/2005 12:49:23 AM
Good candid.
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 12/01/2005 12:25:44 AM
I got lost in his eyes.
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