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Challenge: Environmental Portrait (Advanced Editing IV)
Camera: Nikon D70
Lens: Sigma 28-70mm f/2.8 EX Aspherical DF for Nikon
Location: Lydiard Park, Swindon, UK
Date: May 13, 2006
Aperture: f10
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/1250
Galleries: Portraiture
Date Uploaded: May 14, 2006

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Statistics
Place: 52 out of 190
Avg (all users): 6.1005
Avg (commenters): 7.6000
Avg (participants): 5.8889
Avg (non-participants): 6.2041
Views since voting: 1348
Views during voting: 360
Votes: 219
Comments: 14
Favorites: 1 (view)


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AuthorThread
05/27/2006 09:58:33 PM
::: Critique Club :::

Hi, my name is Kari and from the critique club.

First Impression - the most important one:
To me ... this is very english beauty type shot ... so much the young gentry :)

Composition:
I love how you got him in the perfect third of the shot ... the background really adds here ...

Subject:
meets the challenge .... well and truely .. pity that not all get the feeling of the ole english ... but I think it is truely here.

Technical (Colour and light):
of course natural light ... and great colours .. the makeup you have used on your poor kid really makes the face look fantastic .. you should be proud.

To grow its vote?:
try to get it through that not everyone lives in the same environment. So many things that i have entered that mean lots here in NZ mean nothing on this site .. no matter how good the shot. This shot is a top 10 to me.

Summary:
Great work .. keep it up .. try completing yur photographers comments as well.

Interesting to do a critique on your image but it is difficult if you don't give us any information in your photographers comments. When we do a critique, we go past just the photographic result, that's what voters comments do. The critique looks at what you were trying to achieve, how you wanted it to look and what issues you had in getting the image captured and ready for voting.

If you've got any questions about this critique, please feel free to contact me via the PM system.

Cheers

Kari

Message edited by author 2006-05-27 21:59:36.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
05/22/2006 01:24:52 AM
Thanks for the comments - the model was actually my 15 year old son, who also was a good enough sport to walk around the town with make-up on before the shoot
 Comments Made During the Challenge
05/21/2006 06:59:24 PM
I'm embarassed to admit that I don't get it. Great image but the title doesn't make sense to me. Struggling. My image, entered in this Challenge asks the viewer to connect a dot or two which isn't happening for me and I assume you're having the exact problem??? Good luck just the same...it's a very cool shot.

Message edited by author 2006-06-18 02:43:11.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
05/21/2006 06:43:48 AM
Nicely done - especially your framing. I get a sense of dissociation between the figure and the background that is a little unsettling - it's simply the depth of field, of course, but it has the effect of making her surroundings feel simply like a backdrop perhaps, rather than a world she is involved in; her berlin 1930's make-up set aginst the nicely ordered georgian architecture perhaps adds to that feeling too. A nice piece of work however, and that point is more interesting than troubling.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
05/21/2006 02:43:39 AM
love the lighting and dof, very good idea
  Photographer found comment helpful.
05/19/2006 04:17:47 PM
That background is stunning, the whole picture is stunning.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
05/18/2006 08:00:23 PM
Interesting. Reminds me of Boy George mixed with "A Clockwork Orange".
  Photographer found comment helpful.
05/18/2006 07:47:35 PM
Love the colors... the building and her shirt give me a good idea of where she is and why she's there...but the far off stare makes me wonder who she's looking at... it tells a story without giving anything away.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
05/18/2006 11:03:12 AM
Love the backround, just wish the color toning was the same on him as the backround.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
05/17/2006 06:33:27 PM
Nostalgic---nice
  Photographer found comment helpful.
05/16/2006 10:43:34 AM
oh my ! This is superb !!! I love the wonderful b/g area. All one color so it doesn't distract from the subject. PERFECT 10 !
  Photographer found comment helpful.
05/16/2006 12:46:32 AM
overall a nice photo... interesting colors and the subject stands out nicely because of the DOF - good job
  Photographer found comment helpful.
05/15/2006 08:35:09 PM
Great light and wonderful setting. The melodrama is overdone but I assume that is intentional.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
05/15/2006 03:53:31 PM
Well staged and a good poignant result. It looks casual yet is far from that
  Photographer found comment helpful.


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