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Grandpa I can make your hands smooth again.
Grandpa I can make your hands smooth again.
STEPHENIE


Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Textures II (Basic Editing I)
Camera: Sony Mavica CD500
Location: Duncanville, Illinois
Date: Feb 17, 2004
Aperture: F/2.5
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/4
Galleries: Portraiture
Date Uploaded: Feb 17, 2004

cropped and adjusted levels and contrast

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Place: 196 out of 406
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Votes: 280
Comments: 27
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02/24/2004 10:30:41 PM
Great idea and composition. Excellent choice of background.
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02/24/2004 12:25:40 PM
Excellent idea and well executed. Lighting and composition good. Great subject for this challenge topic. Great job :-)
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02/24/2004 10:47:10 AM
Wrinkles show up best with a direct hard light. The composition is nice but unsuported.
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02/22/2004 06:31:26 AM
Nice theme for the photo...a little to smooth a focus to depict the texture though.
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02/22/2004 06:03:46 AM
I like the story.
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02/22/2004 04:37:54 AM
If a grandchild of mine said this, I would probably be very insulted and secretly destroy some of his/her toys. 7
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02/21/2004 11:50:44 PM
What a very cool idea...especially since I have 6 grand kids! Nice shot...great lighting.
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02/21/2004 08:18:52 PM
The humor seems a bit cruel. Wouldn't just the hands have worked better?
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02/21/2004 05:45:25 PM
nice idea, but I think this shot would have been really effective if you had just showed a closeup of grandpas hands. maybe holding the childs hands to show contrast
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02/21/2004 03:16:25 PM
:-) Good idea for the challenge! I wonder how many kids think that!

Good colours, may have helped if it was a little sharper though, would have brought out more details in the wrinkes etc.
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02/21/2004 05:30:53 AM
GOOD.......
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02/20/2004 11:08:23 PM
ouch! poor grandma. this is just silly, as I'm betting it was actually your idea and not the kids, but it's cute :)
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02/20/2004 01:39:58 PM
Ah man that would hurt. Good idea but not very original. I saw a similar B&W in the previous texture challenge.
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02/20/2004 09:26:09 AM
I hope you had a great time taking this picture. Looks like some magical time spent with the different generations. Not that you care since you had a good time, but, did you think about having both arms be the same (blacked out or shown) as the composition was slightly off. Good luck.
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02/20/2004 06:56:24 AM
cute and very original idea IMHO. hands seem a bit on the pink side.
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02/19/2004 02:36:20 PM
too contrived..heavy handed!
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02/19/2004 01:44:35 PM
I felt that the teture of the gentlemans wrist was more interesting than the other pair of hands and the sandpaper.
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02/19/2004 07:16:02 AM
Nice idea
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02/19/2004 04:42:14 AM
Enjoyed the visual story behind the pic. Not sure why one arm has a sleeve and the other doesn't? Kinda makes right hand look like it's unattached and floating in air. Otherwise nice pic.
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02/19/2004 03:58:57 AM
ouch!
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02/18/2004 07:57:14 PM
Beautiful thought to bad you don't have more detail to the sandpaper and grandpa's hand to show the roughness.
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02/18/2004 04:12:03 PM
Touching and lovely take on the challenge. I like the slightly soft focus of this composition. Nicely done.
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02/18/2004 11:15:44 AM
Different take on the "hands" texture. It's odd that the upper arm is black (black sleeve?) and the lower arm is bare. Different kids? It looks a little odd.
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02/18/2004 06:40:57 AM
Use Palmolive!!
Would be interesting to see how this would look with the hands coming from opposite directions creating a Y. Exposure is very good
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02/18/2004 05:32:41 AM
Lighting and the level of contrast (perhaps rather the level of mid-tones) you've chosen to use here don't do a lot for this. I think the idea of the contrast of young and old skin is good, though I find the 'joke' a bit twee, and this doesn't communicate that contrast effectively.
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02/18/2004 01:02:10 AM
the upper had is disembodied - where is the arm? i see the other 2...
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02/18/2004 12:34:03 AM
god... i can only imagine the child's horror when grandpa's skin comes off as its sanded...
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