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Preschool Days
Preschool Days
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Challenge: Environmental Portrait (Advanced Editing IV)
Camera: Canon EOS-300D Rebel
Lens: Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6
Location: Preschool Classroom
Date: May 10, 2006
Aperture: F/4
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/30
Galleries: Portraiture
Date Uploaded: May 14, 2006

Not crazy about this portrait, the soft focus bothers me. If I could've re-shot it, I would have. But just on the slight chance that I might make it through the first round of the LOD2 (ain't going to happen) I thought I should enter something.

So here is my sons Preschool teacher. :-)

Statistics
Place: 68 out of 190
Avg (all users): 5.9954
Avg (commenters): 6.2222
Avg (participants): 5.8310
Avg (non-participants): 6.0743
Views since voting: 1046
Views during voting: 322
Votes: 219
Comments: 11
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05/27/2006 08:16:47 PM
::: Critique Club :::

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

First Impression - the most important one:
Teacher .. defiantely ... a little nervous in front of the camera .. lovely smile.

Composition:
Composition is ok ... having her to one side of the picture works well ... having the books and stuff around her creates the environment.

Subject:
meets the challenge .. and does so well.

Technical (Colour and light):
It is ok .. not fantastic .. but ok ... I like the colours .. as it is a class type setting they work.

To grow its vote?:
and like some of the others I would like to see the kids ... one of the other entries did this


and hit the top 5 ... is only one major difference between the pics .. and that is kids.

Summary:
Good job .. but as you seem to guess not your best ... keep shooting you got a great eye.

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

Cheers

Kari
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05/27/2006 03:25:58 PM
I think you did a great job on this! Only wish there were some rugrats running around in there. :)
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
05/20/2006 12:22:42 AM
Attractive model and appealling photograph. Nice job!
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05/19/2006 03:57:48 PM
a bit too much neat-image?
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05/18/2006 12:52:52 PM
This is a nice picture. I'd be careful of how you place you subject. Maybe moving so her head isn't in front of the corner of the wall. THere is also a bit too much NI or Gaussian Blur on her for me. She's got a great smile!
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05/17/2006 06:36:22 AM
nice shot. meets challenge well
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05/16/2006 11:56:37 AM
Just a bit soft or with motion blur? Great setup and environment. I love Maisy. 7
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05/15/2006 10:46:44 PM
ah- those little chairs you have to sit on!!! :0P I might have burned or somehow darkened the background a bit- the white wall takes the attention away from her face which is darker in tone. The light colors always steal the wandering eyes away!
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05/15/2006 08:25:44 AM
I would like to see some kids in the photo also, like thekids that she is reading for. It is litle out of focus or maybe just you have shacky hands. Could have used "sharpen" in photoshop to fix it.
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05/15/2006 06:01:36 AM
beautiful face and eyes, captured well here
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05/15/2006 12:42:22 AM
CUTE! Nice colors. What beautiful eyes!
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