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To See a World In A Grain of Sand -Blake
To See a World In A Grain of Sand -Blake
BeeCee


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Challenge: Zen Photography (Advanced Editing IV)
Camera: Canon PowerShot S2 IS
Location: Parksville, BC
Date: Jul 25, 2006
Aperture: 4.5
ISO: 50
Shutter: 1/500
Galleries: Seascapes
Date Uploaded: Jul 30, 2006

Parksville Beach, where the tide goes out forever, but was well on its way back in at this point. Most people were in groups, playing and running, but this one child was alone and spent a long time simply standing in this pool... mostly just quietly looking...

Crop, curves, some burning and dodging, cleaned up a bit of haloing around the boy... all simple stuff, since that's all I know how to do yet.

Statistics
Place: 170 out of 329
Avg (all users): 5.5142
Avg (commenters): 6.7500
Avg (participants): 5.4112
Avg (non-participants): 5.6190
Views since voting: 1099
Views during voting: 347
Votes: 212
Comments: 12
Favorites: 0


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 Comments Made During the Challenge
08/06/2006 03:56:13 PM
I think this is an interesting picture with a nice composition, however it seems to be suffering a bit from some technical issues. First the light is very flat and so the image has a bit of a washed out quality to the sand areas to me. I wish the focus was greater/deeper as well. I would suggest cropping out the ocean entirely. The composition in my estimation is much stronger when it is simply those great organicly shaped parcels of water contrasting to the dark sand. I'd also like to see how it looked without the person in the image as the bright red shirt jars the eye (for me) and disrupts a nice feeling of nature harmony just seeing the water/sand play might have. I gave a 4
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08/06/2006 11:37:42 AM
outstanding work in composing this zenlike scene
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08/04/2006 11:57:40 PM
Beautiful shading in the sand that leads the eyes from the subject pool along the other pools to the sea. Very nice. My #1 right now.
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08/04/2006 03:50:11 PM
this is great but i feel that there is too much saturation or something in the water. wonderful composition though!
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08/03/2006 02:32:44 AM
Lovely idea here, but would have like it so much more, if it were just the top half of the image, re the tranquility of the image.....
It kind of looks like two images in the one.
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08/02/2006 07:10:51 AM
I like the composition but feel the colour of the sand could do with a bit of a boost
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08/01/2006 11:16:40 PM
A very nice, unusual composition. Looks similar in idea to this shot that I've recently commented on:
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08/01/2006 11:07:21 PM
you allow us the chance
to not see
that the boy
does not see above him
what he sees below him. 7
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08/01/2006 12:46:28 PM
Wow, very interesting composition, maybe would bebetter if the model wasn't biting his nails?
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08/01/2006 02:20:46 AM
Love it. A dash of red is enough to higlight the cool background. The size and placement of subject is just perfect. Hope this does well for you.8.
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07/31/2006 05:03:41 PM
Good photo
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07/31/2006 07:49:43 AM
a great composition...great colour in the shirt contrasts well against the rest of the shot
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