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Schooling
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Challenge: Photojournalism II (Advanced Editing IV)
Camera: Canon EOS-350D Rebel XT
Lens: Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6
Location: Atlanta, GA
Date: Apr 30, 2006
Aperture: F/3.5
ISO: 100
Shutter: .6 sec.
Galleries: Family, Animals
Date Uploaded: Apr 30, 2006

 This score may be bad. Maybe people will think it loosely fits in the challenge. I relly like how the fish and the one guys arm is blurred. It makes it look as if the fish is outside the aquarium.

From the New Georgia Aquarium.

Edits:

Cropped
I dodged a little on the two people standing there to bring them out a little.
Cloned out a few things in the glass and some stuff in the background.
Bumped the saturation of the blue and cyan to about +19
Neat image twice
added borders
resized
uploaded


Post Challenge: Woohoo my highest scoring entry so far. I accomplished one of my goals. As for the title. I was thinking "Schooling" for the fish and for the guy appearing to be teaching his buddy something about the fish. Hence the Schooling title. Schooling on both sides of the glass.

Also I want to add that Eric is right this thing has been a big media frenzy since its opening. We had to purchase tickets in advance and the place was jam packed.


Oh well one goal accomplished.

Statistics
Place: 74 out of 183
Avg (all users): 5.7892
Avg (commenters): 6.8182
Avg (participants): 5.8816
Avg (non-participants): 5.7248
Views since voting: 1368
Views during voting: 325
Votes: 185
Comments: 19
Favorites: 0

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 07/13/2006 12:44:29 PM
Well here is your 400th my man. Cool shot. Almost looks like a massive television monitor. Well done!
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 06/04/2006 02:50:55 PM
very cool
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 05/08/2006 11:37:37 PM
I thought this was a great shot. I gave it a 9.
I loved the perspective the action and the colors. Great rule of thirds and quite interesting. It fits the challenge well also.
I would have thought this would do better.
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 05/08/2006 10:45:32 PM
Woo Hoo is right!!! Congratulations James on besting your high score. :)
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 05/08/2006 02:28:09 PM
Rex, Thats a way cool photo.....
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 05/08/2006 12:59:03 PM
Actually, I didn't see anything wrong wit the title here. It seemed feature photo-ish to me, so no need to work on the title.

I id have issues with the dark lighting on the child, but that would have been very hard to fix in-camera. Perhaps a bit of dodging would have helped some.

Over-all, I thought it was a nice photo and scored fairly well.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 Comments Made During the Challenge
05/07/2006 07:15:29 PM
Great shot for the challenge
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 05/07/2006 07:30:33 AM
I really like this...great vantage point/composition
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 05/07/2006 02:08:37 AM
To much blur for my taste. Would of been better if you could of captured the people and a few complete fish in focus. No center of focus . I wish you the best in the challenge.
 05/06/2006 10:39:07 PM
this is interesting...i wish the people were exposed a little better though, this is a tough exposure to make.
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 05/05/2006 09:33:28 PM
I don't think the blurring helps this shot. I would prefer it if everyting were in sharp focus.
 05/05/2006 04:33:05 AM
Very nice capture.
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 05/03/2006 09:17:18 PM
Very nice! I think this is one of the coolest entrances on all the aquariums I've been to. This one may not fare well outside the Atlanta voters, but here it has been a media frenzy from day 1. It absolutely fits the challenge. I also like the exposure that you achieved here. The guy in the left corner is nicely focused while the fish give the shot great motion. It makes want to look through the frame and see what the fishies are running from. Nicely seen and well captured. By the way, you aquarium exposure is very nice. This isn't easy light to overcome. I bet Leroy nailed you on the title. Those pesky photojournalism majors.
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 05/03/2006 12:01:00 PM
The light on the fish really make this image pop.
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 05/03/2006 07:57:47 AM
cool ... i would crop out the people so only the fishes stay in frame
it would make the photo more interesting i think

keep up
 05/01/2006 10:23:42 PM
The motion and light are exceptional.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 05/01/2006 04:43:50 PM
hard capture. But it does work well for local interests.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 05/01/2006 02:11:50 PM
One of the very best of the challenge. But understated.
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 05/01/2006 11:50:58 AM
excellent photojournalistic shot-8-
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