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Challenge: Best of 2006 (Advanced Editing V*)
Camera: Canon PowerShot A95
Location: Münster, Germany
Date: Feb 25, 2006
Date Uploaded: Jan 11, 2007

 Selecting the BEST shot from 2006? Man, that's impossible!! I processed some shots I like from 2006 and chose this one - that's all.


*** After challenge ***
Wow, thanks for your nice comments, votes and faves! Was a pleasure for me :) Some additional infos:
This was shot in Münster, Germany
Watch out for him if you visit Gary's workshop in June. You will probably find him at the "Prinzipalmarkt".

I really did not much d&b. The patterns on the wall were so strong, they created a "natural" d&b ;) I think this is the reason why some said "too much d&b".

This was a VERY lucky shot: I wanted to take a photo of him but so many people were passing by! So I took one (!) halfhearted snapshot of him. Back home on my PC I realized that I hit a very special moment - yeah! :)

Statistics
Place: 36 out of 712
Avg (all users): 6.8392
Avg (commenters): 7.8537
Avg (participants): 6.8165
Avg (non-participants): 6.9101
Views since voting: 1941
Views during voting: 541
Votes: 367
Comments: 47
Favorites: 8 (view)

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 01/30/2007 06:26:59 AM
Beautiful shot and processing. and nice score as well! Congrats
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 01/26/2007 03:26:02 PM
This is fantastic
I never ran into him in Münster, maybe next time!
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 01/26/2007 12:57:31 PM
OH! BTW, do let me know if you make a print available. ;o)
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 01/26/2007 12:57:07 PM
honestly, this is one of my faves of all time. Well done.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
01/25/2007 08:15:15 PM
A Wonderful capture perfectly presented to enhance the mood/story here. Awesome!!!
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 01/25/2007 04:28:07 PM
oh yah...so wonderfully theatrical!
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 01/25/2007 01:51:51 AM
Cool image here, quite unusual, but really interesting.....
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 01/24/2007 10:35:24 PM
awesome. excellent observation, expertly observed, top-notch processing. may it do well for you!
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 01/24/2007 09:52:58 PM
This is just freakin cool. Outstanding work! Good luck.
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 01/23/2007 08:06:09 PM
Great choice for the black & white edit, and love the levels in this - well done!
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 01/23/2007 05:42:32 PM
10!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
excellent. absolutely excellent.
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 01/22/2007 01:47:31 PM
B&W looks really good with this picture.
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 01/21/2007 06:22:59 PM
Love the high contrast!
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 01/21/2007 11:09:29 AM
The whole scene is very interesting. Looks like it came out of the old vaudville days. Good job.
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 01/21/2007 10:59:25 AM
Personally, I don't like the D&B work here, since it gives the shot an almost cartoony feel. It does serve to highlight the subject, however your framing and timing have already accomplished that admirably, making the D&B seem unnecessary. Trust your instincts, and do what feels right. Good luck this week, and in the coming year. A very interesting shot, by the way.
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 01/21/2007 05:34:13 AM
Wonderful!
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 01/21/2007 01:15:01 AM
I'll forgive you the vignetting for this amazing silent movie. 9
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 01/20/2007 04:34:37 PM
cool
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 01/19/2007 02:00:18 AM
Very nice work. I'm somewhat bothered by the relentless symmetry of it, because to me that seems out of place given the context, but I can see how the formality of the composition plays off the weird formality of his clothing, so I am probably off-base with that. In any event, one of my high scorers.
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 01/18/2007 12:17:19 AM
Excellent capture. Love the tones. I looked at this for a while; it's compelling, but something doesn't click for me. I think the left part is weak compare to the rest--the bike is a bit distracting. I like it better cropped to the poster, or even cropping a little past the poster, cropping it out.
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 01/17/2007 08:48:49 AM
Great work great contrast!!! 10
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 01/16/2007 09:43:13 PM
Very nice - Slightly surreal post processing but a great capture.
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 01/16/2007 06:03:47 PM
Excellent image! Very nicely composed and the editing really makes the most of the subject :o)
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 01/15/2007 09:30:12 PM
This is my favorite of the challenge. The only aspect that I don't like is the 100& black rectangle in the top right corner but besides that this is an absolutely splendid image -- 10.
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 01/15/2007 01:25:16 PM
Nice post process editing. Great subject.
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 01/14/2007 10:51:19 PM
what a crazy scene! LOVE it!
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 01/13/2007 06:10:17 PM
What a crazy shot! I thought it was staged at first, but then it has so many authentic elements... Love his pose & most of your post technique - really hot whites are a tad distracting but not terribly so. << 8 >>
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 01/13/2007 03:46:55 PM
Oh at last - I was beginning to think I'd been condemned to look at a ceaseless round of bland landscapes, blooms and other people's children being cute for all eternity. All of a sudden I find myself capable of facial reaction again. Despite a suspicion of over-processing - his cloak looks impossibly smooth, really, this has charm, elegance and just a touch of subversion in the bicycle wheel.
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 01/13/2007 01:18:53 PM
Mummified in time. It's like looking into the past, past the mouth of the tomb. An odd sort of sensation really. Quite an excellent character to photograph. 8.
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 01/13/2007 12:29:59 PM
This is a very interesting photo you have captured here. One of my top picks in the challenge. Good Luck.
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 01/13/2007 10:26:02 AM
Nice shot. This type of photo doesn't really appeal to me (dark, high contrast) but I can appreciate the effort 8 for me.
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 01/13/2007 08:18:41 AM
Excellent B&W work - I like it :)
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 01/12/2007 10:12:27 PM
What a character.
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 01/12/2007 10:01:27 PM
really nice tones, great subject...awsome shot.
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 01/12/2007 09:21:55 PM
Nice contrast and wonderful emotion captured in the subject. Well done (8)
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 01/12/2007 09:17:20 PM
a fantastic study...what a great story going on here...I love your editing and the capture itself, the timing is perfect...(is this in Florence?) 9
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 01/12/2007 05:30:10 PM
Love the gritty feel to this perfect for a street musician. The composition is very effective as well.
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 01/12/2007 03:39:43 PM
The dodging is a bit overdone, IMO, but fantastic shot.
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 01/12/2007 02:03:33 PM
haha, cool dude :D 7
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 01/12/2007 01:48:42 PM
top in the challenge so far. And that is saying alot!!
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 01/12/2007 12:36:28 PM
Excellent photo, Great subject and execution -9
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 01/12/2007 11:27:24 AM
really great job 8
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 01/12/2007 10:18:56 AM
Man, that is GREAT. I love the whole story it tells. Perfect contrast and variation of tone. The bike wheel really makes it for me.
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 01/12/2007 10:18:45 AM
schweet!
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 01/12/2007 09:52:11 AM
too much sharpening for my taste
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 01/12/2007 07:56:28 AM
wicked photo ! the central composition works nice here
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 01/12/2007 12:41:34 AM
This is the kind of photo that will earn you fame. It should be in a museum for the world to see.
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