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Scary Yet Candid
Scary Yet Candid
heavyj


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Challenge: Free Study 2008-11 (Advanced Editing VII)
Camera: Nikon D200
Lens: Nikon AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor 18-70mm f/3.5-4.5G IF-ED
Location: Osaka
Date: Nov 23, 2008
Aperture: f4.5
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/160 second
Galleries: Candid, Birds
Date Uploaded: Nov 27, 2008

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Statistics
Place: 137 out of 417
Avg (all users): 5.9141
Avg (commenters): 6.2500
Avg (participants): 5.9266
Avg (non-participants): 5.8889
Views since voting: 760
Views during voting: 250
Votes: 163
Comments: 10
Favorites: 0


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 Comments Made During the Challenge
12/05/2008 09:47:59 AM
Scary, indeed, I like the b&w here and the darkness of it. The brightness of the sign is a bit distracting.
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12/05/2008 09:34:08 AM
I know the last thing I want after eating some delicious okonomiyaki is to have someone taking a photo of me. Your subject is fantastically captured. If there is anyway to crop him without the food (cropping), I think the photo would be much stronger overall. He almost looks like the okonomiyaki Grinch. 7
12/04/2008 06:00:36 PM
Oh, he's not too scary. Intersting moment. Maybe too much sign on the left (or not enough, depending on what it says).
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12/04/2008 12:22:24 PM
Photo feels a little dark, but the man has a lot of great texture in his face and the photo feels like there is a story behind the mans face.
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12/03/2008 03:11:21 PM
lol @ your title, he does look a little scary I agree!
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12/02/2008 11:10:46 PM
He'd snapped the photo before he even realized his subject had noticed him. When he got it home, and saw that the man had been staring at him, he got an uneasy feeling. Suddenly, small nagging memories hit him. The way the man had suddenly glowered, the way his head nodded almost imperceptibly. It had occurred on a subconscious level for the photographer, something he hadn't been aware of but could recall in stark clarity now that he gazed at the photo on his screen.

He'd liked the look of the old man, sauntering along the street. Now, he seemed to be scowling in perpetuity. A look of knowing in his eyes, almost haunting.

A few weeks later, when the pains began, and the boils erupted on his skin, he would forget about this particular subject in a forgotten photo, and never made the connection, even to his agonizing death a short time later.
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12/02/2008 09:51:50 PM
I might have cropped a bit off the left to have the face not have to compete so much with the sign... but I like how sharp and interesting the face is.. teh light makes it even more so in the contours. (not voting yet)
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12/01/2008 09:02:01 PM
a great candid, the editing is a little blotchy on his jacket, might hurt your score. the photo itself is great though
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12/01/2008 06:23:35 PM
His expression is great. A very nice candid.
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12/01/2008 05:12:56 AM
perhaps cropping out the left side of the image might have made this a better composition
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