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Telling Love Goodbye
Telling Love Goodbye
karmat


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Challenge: Letting Go (Basic Editing I)
Collection: Black and White
Camera: Sony DSC-F707
Location: Greenhill Cemetary, Waynesville, NC
Date: Feb 7, 2004
Aperture: na
ISO: 100
Shutter: na
Galleries: Family, Emotive
Date Uploaded: Feb 9, 2004

 I really wanted one of my husband and little boy in the picture, insinuating that a young mother had died. I was going to title it "Letting Go of the Past, Hoping in the Future." However, my little boy had on a Winnie the Pooh hat that made it look, well funny. That, and he kept smiling at me! So, I had to go with my husband solo.

Post processing -- cropped, used color balance to get a bw, then colorized it with slight saturation of red.

The white dots are snowflakes.

Statistics
Place: 16 out of 188
Avg (all users): 5.9884
Avg (commenters): 6.8000
Avg (participants): 5.6465
Avg (non-participants): 6.2000
Views since voting: 1132
Votes: 259
Comments: 13
Favorites: 0

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 Comments Made During the Challenge
02/17/2004 08:20:59 PM
nice sentiment...I might have had him at a grave rather than behind one...but nicely done
 02/16/2004 05:44:45 PM
Nice concept.
 02/15/2004 09:35:02 PM
Technically sound and sharp. Also a good direct correlation to the title. I might've prefered b&w, but that's all it is... a preference.
 02/14/2004 10:34:22 AM
you can almost feel his pain
 02/13/2004 07:11:58 AM
Nice, I like it alot, good luck!
 02/12/2004 05:29:37 PM
Nice pic. More contrast and shorter DOF would put this near the top..... Very good composition.
 02/12/2004 11:32:36 AM
Nice shot. I thought about doing something like this but for some reason didn't. I think it would have helped if the subject was actually in front of a stone.
 02/12/2004 09:36:25 AM
Now I have a dilemma: this is such a ceareful shot - certainly in its post work. But I don't find it terribly emotive, and it seems (partly from the title) to be so deliberately pulling at the heart strings. It is, at least, a touch more restrained than some of the 'despairing' shots. Guess i'll have to come back to it.
 02/12/2004 08:14:32 AM
Nice shot, I wanted to do the same, but couldn't find the chance. Nice use of B&W and the mood is superb.
 02/11/2004 08:42:14 PM
woah! Very very nice. Only one sugestion, i would have opened up the aperature and focused on the rose and have the kid slightly out of focus. But still very good! 8
 02/11/2004 05:09:00 PM
Good composition, especially choosing a relatively young model for the shot. Some artifacts on the jeans hurt a little.
 02/11/2004 03:56:25 PM
Very nice sharpness and toning, and I like the contrast the jacket provides against the background.
 02/11/2004 12:29:16 PM
at first i was like, i wish it was from the other side so i could see his expression..but then i thought that it was great this made me want to see more..so job well done.


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