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Mother and Son
Mother and Son
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Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Love II (Basic Editing)
Camera: Canon EOS-350D Rebel XT
Lens: Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II
Location: Living room
Date: Feb 19, 2007
Aperture: f/1.8
ISO: 400
Shutter: 1/60
Galleries: Family, Black and White
Date Uploaded: Feb 20, 2007

 In RSE, bumped exposure, lowered shadow contrast, converted to JPEG.
In Photoshop, cropped, converted to BW w/Channel Mixer (70% Red, 10% Green, 20% Blue), applied Unsharp Mask, ran through Neat Image, resized to 640, applied Unsharp Mask again, saved for Web.

Statistics
Place: 31 out of 232
Avg (all users): 6.0091
Avg (commenters): 7.6667
Avg (participants): 5.6269
Avg (non-participants): 6.1765
Views since voting: 924
Views during voting: 298
Votes: 220
Comments: 10
Favorites: 0

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AuthorThread
 03/04/2007 01:27:39 PM
Hey there from the Critique Club

Camera Work/Technical: My eyes are immediately drawn to the catchlights in the child's eyes, which is initially a good thing, but the catch lights give the image an overall out-of-focus feeling, as do the other highlights on the image. This may have been a result of your post-processing. I have found, through much trial and more error, that a better result is usually yielded by running Neat Image before any sharpening is done. I'd also like to see a little more contrast to the image.

Lighting: Nicely lit, but I'd like to see the entire catch light in the child's right eye instead of it bleeding to the edge of his eyelid. I do like your use of lighting to isolate the child from the mother, thus making him the emphasized subject.

Composition/Content: I believe that your composition would be stronger if you had left his ear in the frame or either cropped a little closer to his eye.

My Opinion: Excellent job meeting the challenge. I definitely get a feeling of love as soon as the image loads. I think with more crisp focus and a little more contrast, this one would have finished even better.

Eric
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
02/27/2007 10:37:57 PM
very soft image, well composed, the lighting adds to the effects
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 02/27/2007 02:09:59 PM
Oh, this is wonderful! Great shot!
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 02/27/2007 10:08:54 AM
Great Portrait
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 02/24/2007 09:09:00 PM
Absolutely great moment captured!
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 02/23/2007 08:53:59 AM
beautiful... nothing more to add... everthing is there...
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 02/22/2007 02:25:47 PM
nice concept.
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 02/21/2007 09:28:12 PM
Too sweet. Great moment captured.
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 02/21/2007 02:00:55 PM
I think it would get a higher score if the baby was a little more in focus. All your attention starts there and I think it should be the 'crispest' (I'm not even sure that's a word) part of the photo. Still giving high vote.
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 02/21/2007 10:57:12 AM
nice lighting
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