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Challenge: Free Study 2007-09 (Advanced Editing V)
Collection: Stories
Camera: Canon EOS-350D Rebel XT
Lens: Tamron AF 75-300mm f/4.0-5.6 LD for Canon
Location: Cape May, NJ
Date: Sep 1, 2007
Aperture: 5.6
ISO: 100
Shutter: 400
Galleries: Candid, Black and White
Date Uploaded: Sep 30, 2007

 I took some pictures of people up in a lighthouse and I got lucky with this one. I thought I'd blown it because of some other distracting elements in the photo, but it was easy to crop them out. I predict that some people will think it's tilted and some people just won't get the photo at all. I'm hoping that some will enjoy the thematic resonance of a dwarfed hand reaching through bars on a lighthouse.

neat image
crop
calculations to b/w, multiplying red and green channels
levels to make the gray areas more contrasty
resize
USM 4px 150+%

===post-challenge====
Well dang, this shot was a disappointment. I didn't think it would score well but I thought at least a few people would like it. I'm very happy that jonfrommk grokked it.

Rob, maybe you're right. A white sky. I think if I used the blue channel I could have managed that.

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Place: 454 out of 503
Avg (all users): 5.0174
Avg (commenters): 5.4000
Avg (participants): 4.9884
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Views since voting: 783
Views during voting: 164
Votes: 115
Comments: 8
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 10/14/2007 10:18:07 PM
He looks locked away in a tower prison -- an unfortunate, lonely, little prince reaching out for human contact. Sort of makes me think of the way severe depression can keep a person trapped and isolated even on the sunniest day. I really like the b&w, the light, and the lines of this image. Nice composition.
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 10/08/2007 09:53:59 AM
Don I think this shot is begin for a white sky.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
10/04/2007 08:14:26 PM
A little weak on the title/subject tie-in for me, but the exposure, lighting, detail, and conversion are all nicely done.
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 10/03/2007 09:08:24 PM
this seems a bit busy, needs a stronger focal point
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 10/02/2007 12:17:38 PM
I find it hard to comment on this picture. It took me a long while to see the child. There are so many lines criss-crossing in the shot that the viewer quickly gets lost, nothing to hold on to. May be if the child dropped something like a stuffed animal or so. Then there would be a story to tell.
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 10/02/2007 03:42:02 AM
contrast is too high and the kid is just too small and too far at right side to make for an interesting subject
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 10/01/2007 10:20:38 AM
Very nice patterns and great tones.
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 10/01/2007 05:45:07 AM
Lovely B&W conversion and quite a haunting picture. The hand stretching through the railings seems very plaintive (almost as if it is stretching out to either stop a parent leaving or grasping for a balloon that has slipped from its grasp.

Super shot 8
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