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Girl & Squirrel
Girl & Squirrel
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Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Unrelatedness (Advanced Editing IV)
Camera: Canon EOS-350D Rebel XT
Lens: Sigma 70-300mm f/4-5.6 APO DG Macro for Canon
Location: St James Park, London
Date: Sep 27, 2006
Aperture: f/4
ISO: 400
Shutter: 1/250
Galleries: Animals
Date Uploaded: Sep 30, 2006

Editing Steps:
Convert from RAW
Rotate
Crop
Shadow/Hilight
Curves
Hue/Saturation
Neat Image
Clone out distractions on path
Hue/Saturation on colourful background
Resize
USM
Save for web

Statistics
Place: 96 out of 134
Avg (all users): 5.2706
Avg (commenters): 6.0000
Avg (participants): 5.0492
Avg (non-participants): 5.3945
Views since voting: 839
Views during voting: 351
Votes: 170
Comments: 6
Favorites: 0


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10/15/2006 06:59:41 PM
Greetings from the Critique Club

Girls and squirrels generally aren't "related" in my world, so I thought this met the challenge quite nicely. It's an interesing photograph that shows a nice, warm moment. While they may not be "related", they seem to be relating to each other nicely. Good focus, excellent color - particularly her jacket and her hair. Seems to be well-exposed, too. (And nifty fingernail decoration as well.)

How to make it better for the DPC-world? Shoot it in a studio with a solid black background and have more of the girl's face in the picture. :-) No, seriously, it probably should have scored a bit higher than it did, but was also probably viewed as a "snapshot". Snapshots for some reason are not held in high regard at DPC, regardless of the quality of the shot.

As far as composition, it does seem to be a bit cramped on the right side - I suspect this is the way the shot was framed and there's nothing more on the right to include here. To crop more off the top or bottom would lose either her or the squirrel's hair and to include more on the left would add to the cramped feeling.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
10/08/2006 03:14:16 PM
Nice catch!
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10/07/2006 10:47:57 PM
like girls , squirrels well they eat all the pecans from my tree
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10/05/2006 09:12:24 PM
Has the dnmc police visited this image? And did they count the food you are feeding as another object? I hope not. Very nice and bumping to 8 to compensate for the dnmc gang.
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10/03/2006 04:46:35 AM
obviously, there IS a relation between the girl and the squirrel
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10/02/2006 12:13:51 AM
Wow! I've never seen a squirrel do that!
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