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Challenge: Free Study 2007-05 (Advanced Editing V)
Camera: Canon PowerShot S1 IS
Location: Killeen, TX
Date: May 20, 2007
Aperture: F/4.5
ISO: auto
Shutter: 1/160 sec.
Galleries: Emotive, Military
Date Uploaded: May 21, 2007

Taken at the Traveling Vietnam Memorial Wall, my oldest son looking and my hubby's reflection. Edits: crop, resize, colors, contrast, lowered brightness and saturation and slight blur on boy, unsharp mask on all.

Statistics
Place: 403 out of 617
Avg (all users): 5.4111
Avg (commenters): 6.3333
Avg (participants): 5.3356
Avg (non-participants): 5.7353
Views since voting: 851
Views during voting: 236
Votes: 180
Comments: 17
Favorites: 0


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06/08/2007 06:06:37 PM
Lovely symbolism imparted in a very realistic way. Congrats on the new PB, but you'll beat it again quite soon, I'm sure.
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06/08/2007 04:18:04 PM
Congratulation on your PB. This is a wonderful composition. The reflection on the memorial seems like the ones who were lost are looking back on the ones who are left without them -- a connection between the living and the dead. Perhaps that's what you meant by the title. Very evocative.

Message edited by author 2007-06-08 16:19:02.
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06/08/2007 09:49:08 AM
Congrats, Sierra. Nice job. This shot has some real emotional appeal. PB. Way to go.
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06/08/2007 03:44:11 AM
Congrats on personal best!!!!!! Whooooo!!!
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06/08/2007 12:11:18 AM
Congrats on your new personal best score, and welcome to Team Suck! :) I didn't know there was a traveling version of the wall - thanks for showing me.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
06/07/2007 11:11:20 PM
great effect. 7
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06/07/2007 09:11:54 PM
very dramatic and emotive shot -the reflection of the older man really tells a story
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06/07/2007 06:34:53 PM
yes, this is all so sad... nice picture here.
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06/05/2007 03:23:10 PM
I like the idea very much, but the reflection of a taller man doesn't do anything for the pic. Don't suppose you could do much about that though.
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06/04/2007 01:24:59 PM
IMO I think you shot this at the wrong time of the day. The bright sunlight says snapshot all over it, along with the reflections on the wall.
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06/02/2007 12:46:14 PM
without the reflection in the wall this should be an image without a strong element. 7
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06/02/2007 10:39:07 AM
Interesting shot. Did you set it up to have the boy looking at the man in the reflection, or was that just coincidence? It's a nice image regardless, but if you set it up like that, it may have been more powerful if the man in the reflection was wearing a soldiers uniform. Just a thought.
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06/01/2007 09:57:06 PM
Very much like the boy and the reflection; not sure about the second person reflected as I think it takes away from the poignancy a bit.
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06/01/2007 05:29:05 PM
Love it. The details just keep coming and coming.
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06/01/2007 04:51:13 PM
I like how you can see the reflection of an adult .. works with the photo & title.
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06/01/2007 04:26:44 PM
Contrast is needed more.
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06/01/2007 12:17:53 PM
I like this a lot - if the reflection of the lady? would not be there this would really be an imaginative capture. 8
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