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Challenge: Free Study 2007-04 (Expert Editing*)
Camera: Canon EOS-20D
Lens: Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6
Location: Gillette, WY
Date: Apr 6, 2007
Aperture: 200
ISO: 100
Shutter: 7.0
Galleries: Portraiture, Children
Date Uploaded: Apr 30, 2007

Taken as a business shoot....and just loved this one! So I thought I would enter it in a challenge!!! Don't know, and don't care if it does well!! I have came to that point now-a-days with challenges because the voters are so unpredicitable and it just crushes me to think I have a great photo (even after comparing against others in challenges) and all I place is low to mid 5s....

Okay, enough ranting!

Cropped, rotated, arbitrary rotate, cloned edges to fill in empty spaces, hue and saturation layers, curves layers, resized, sharpened, neat imaged, sumbitted!

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Place: 233 out of 573
Avg (all users): 5.8372
Avg (commenters): 7.0000
Avg (participants): 5.6557
Avg (non-participants): 6.2800
Views since voting: 762
Views during voting: 222
Votes: 172
Comments: 3
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05/08/2007 09:27:47 PM
CRITIQUE CLUB CRITIQUE
by karmat

NO!! No more snow or cold weather, please!!! :)

Compositionally, I love the angle of this shot. It is interesting and and pleasing as well. It also seems a natural pose for a young girl. I also like that she is not "straight" in the frame, but tilted just a bit. Again, I think this adds to the youthfulness and playfulness of the shot.

Technically, the colors are very pleasing. The green balls were a bit distracting at first, because I couldn't tell where they "originated" or why they were there. Otherwise, the pink really sits nicely against the snow. The focus is good and sharp, and I think you have done well to exposure her face and "front" as well as you have without blowing out the snow. My only nitpick is that her face is too smooth. There is little or no detail left there at all. Since this is a portrait, that is the main focal point, and it seems unnatural. My apologies if her skin is naturally that smooth, but it seems like a result of noise reduction.

Awesome shot, and if I need to further clarify or explain myself, please let me know.

karma

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05/01/2007 03:23:21 PM
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05/01/2007 03:10:37 PM
Nice portrait!
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