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Wally - The Magician
Wally - The Magician
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Challenge: Magic & Mystery (Advanced Editing IV)
Camera: Olympus E-500 EVOLT
Lens: Olympus 14-45mm f/3.5-5.6 Zuiko Digital ED
Location: Reykjavik
Date: Aug 19, 2006
Aperture: F/4,4
ISO: 400
Shutter: 1/200
Galleries: Humorous, Performance
Date Uploaded: Aug 20, 2006

 He calls himself Wally and performed during the Culture Night in Reykjavik on August 19. He is a witty guy with some good jokes and made spontanious funny remarks about spectators ecspesially those who walked through his “stage”. Sometimes I was pleased he spoke English because I had my children with me.

PS: Crop, Levels, Hue/Saturation, Curves, Resize, USM, Frame And Save For the Web.

Camera Model: E-500
Equipment Maker: OLYMPUS
Date Taken: 19.8. 2006 17:18
Color Representation: sRGB
Subject Distance:
Flash Used: No
Focal Length: 141mm
F-numer: F/4,4
ISO: 400
Exposure Time: 1/200sec.
Metering Mode: Pattern
Exposure Compensation: 0

Statistics
Place: 31 out of 127
Avg (all users): 6.0887
Avg (commenters): 7.5000
Avg (participants): 5.9615
Avg (non-participants): 6.1325
Views since voting: 1001
Views during voting: 397
Votes: 203
Comments: 22
Favorites: 0

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 Comments Made During the Challenge
08/27/2006 03:12:58 PM
Powerful shot, but I'm not feeling the magic. Love the composition, superb.
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 08/27/2006 12:40:02 PM
Wonder how it would be in B/W ... One of my favorites for this challnge ... Good job!!!
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 08/27/2006 06:29:34 AM
Great shot. Love the muted colors and the dof. Great crop and the detail on his face is perfect. Very nice shot. You should try getting a hold of theis guy as I know he would apprecaite this picture. Great job. Bumping up 1 for now.
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 08/26/2006 10:35:07 PM
Iceland? At least Wally was here last time I checked. Funny guy.
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 08/26/2006 01:48:35 PM
Excellent DOF. Muted colors work well here as well and a fine choice on cropping.
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 08/26/2006 08:15:48 AM
Yay! A great shot of a juggler....they are so rare you know! Perfect crop and the perfect perpective of the guy & ball (from the chin up). Nice use of desat and the blury crowd adds the shot. Bumping to 8.
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 08/25/2006 07:09:18 PM
His crossed eyes just draw me to the focal point of the yellow ball. Good DOF.
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 08/25/2006 06:46:58 PM
Great photo! Good use of dof and rule of 3rds. The ball, his eyes and hand all help complete the composition. Just enough title, too. Nine from me!
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 08/25/2006 11:30:35 AM
cool nostrils! ;-)
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 08/24/2006 12:38:53 PM
This is great. The use of a shallow DOF really makes the image. My top pick for this challenge.
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 08/24/2006 09:13:05 AM
Excellent use of DOF on this, just the right amount of OOF of the observers. I think the color tones are spot on as well. Performer and ball really pop. Well done!
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 08/24/2006 12:29:52 AM
Very solid photo...good use of shallow depth of field...great composition. Unfortunately he doesn't appear to be doing a magic act of any kind so it feels like a good photo trying to be passed off in a challenge that it doesn't really fit. I'll still give you the benefit of the doubt and an above average score.
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 08/23/2006 10:26:21 PM
The color here, or more specifically lack thereof, adds a nice street feeling to the image for me. His intense concentration is interesting to see. My only concern is that the woman with her arms folded is distracting, even though you did a nice job of blurring out the audience. Perhaps a different crop would help with that? 6.
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 08/23/2006 01:43:55 AM
omg, I love this! just such a great and quirky candid.
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 08/22/2006 11:20:52 PM
this one works for me.....
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 08/22/2006 04:01:51 PM
9: I love it. The only thing is that some of the clothing on the people i the back is distracting eg: the blue shirt at the right
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 08/22/2006 07:58:10 AM
Fantastic angle.
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 08/21/2006 09:36:00 PM
Nice dof and placement of the subject.
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 08/21/2006 09:10:09 PM
Excellent PJ shot. Fantastic!
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 08/21/2006 06:58:45 PM
Nice DOF. Selective desat works. 7
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 08/21/2006 02:50:25 AM
this is a winner for me...the composition and the depth of field are fantastic, with the people in the background really adding to the interest...excellent, best so far
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 08/21/2006 02:00:44 AM
brilliant! best of the bunch 11
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