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Popeye
Popeye
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Challenge: Singled-Out (Advanced Editing IV)
Camera: Fujifilm FinePix S7000
Location: Philadelphia, PA
Date: Jan 10, 2006
Aperture: f/ 3.1
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/315 sec.
Galleries: Urban, Candid
Date Uploaded: Jan 15, 2006

 Whew....well I shouldn't have even have bothered but there are so few entries I put this in to make the others look good. Not exactly a crowd, you might say and I just know you will. It seemed that whenever I had the camera with me there were no crowds and when I didn't, there were hordes of people all about. Go figure.

This is one of my cab shots. I took it from the open window of a cab as we drove down Broad Street on my way to work. No crowd but Popeye looks to be quite a character and he reminds me a little of my paternal grandfather.

Post: Shot in landscape and cropped to portrait. Layer adjustments for levels, brightness/contrast, USM. I cloned out a small piece of a pylon that was in the original image to the left of the subject. Selected Popeye, increased the selection 10 pixels and feathered 10 as well. Inverted and gausian blurred the background (there was some blur in the original but not enought). Deselected and did some selective blurring around the subject.

Statistics
Place: 43 out of 109
Avg (all users): 5.6360
Avg (commenters): 5.7692
Avg (participants): 5.0923
Avg (non-participants): 5.8068
Views since voting: 946
Views during voting: 369
Votes: 272
Comments: 14
Favorites: 0

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AuthorThread
 01/23/2006 12:24:04 AM
Originally posted by Pooba:
I think cropping off more at the top would have made this more powerful

Great idea! Thanks for the comment!
 Comments Made During the Challenge
01/22/2006 11:17:42 PM
Good job capturing the "feel" of the situation/setting.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 01/21/2006 11:14:06 PM
Good shallow DOF to isolate your subject and well composed
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 01/20/2006 01:22:12 PM
... the sailor man.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 01/19/2006 03:12:41 AM
DOF isolation is not used sufficiently, and, compositionally, this shot is very messy.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 01/18/2006 07:56:19 PM
Very good work here. Love the humor in the title! 9
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 01/18/2006 07:30:24 PM
Smart to give him a name. He looks just a bit too crisp to me tho.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 01/17/2006 03:22:59 PM
Title is LOL funny.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 01/16/2006 09:35:07 PM
I think cropping off more at the top would have made this more powerful
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 01/16/2006 11:57:04 AM
I assume that the DOF was done in post processing (but don't worry, it makes no difference to my score). I rather like the way he seems to float in space.... looks like quite the character, too.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 01/16/2006 09:41:44 AM
good job
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 01/16/2006 05:42:04 AM
The DOF here looks strange to my eye, like if it is a gaussian blur work.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 01/16/2006 04:16:00 AM
Great composition, terrific subject, good challenge answer. The crowd's a little small but it works anyway :)
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 01/16/2006 01:15:15 AM
God, I love this, but where's the crowd???
  Photographer found comment helpful.


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