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The Headstones
The Headstones
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Challenge: Band Names (Basic Editing)
Camera: Nikon D40
Lens: Nikon AF-S DX NIKKOR 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6G ED VR II
Location: East Oxford
Date: Aug 11, 2009
Aperture: f25
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/40
Galleries: Vintage, Emotive
Date Uploaded: Aug 11, 2009

 Tried to find at least one headstone with a story behind it to make it worth shooting for this challenge. This one documents the death of three boys, all from the same family - Thomas H, who died at age 11, and two unnamed infant sons, the one in the middle died at the age of 9 days. Couldn't read enough of the inscription to get the age of the last one.

pp: crop, desat, contrast, lightness, resize, usm 3x, sharpen edges, save for web

Statistics
Place: 51 out of 100
Avg (all users): 5.4024
Avg (commenters): 6.0000
Avg (participants): 4.9111
Avg (non-participants): 5.5882
Views since voting: 966
Views during voting: 255
Votes: 164
Comments: 3
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 08/20/2009 04:36:39 PM
Greetings from Andi via the Critique Club

First Impression: Hmm, have looked at this for a while now and the jury is still out on whether I like it or not.

Composition: I like the composition and the foreground stone leaning helps give impact to the image. I'm wondering if an even lower perspective would help chop the trees from the top of the foreground stone?

Subject: I did wonder if this had been an idea for the death challenge and it might even have score better in it. I've never heard of the band (am an old man now) but am sure its out there ;)

Technical:I think this is the area that confused me when first viewing the image. The 'issue' here is the image appears to have been oversharpened - probably to allow us to read more of the gravestone however, it messed with the treetops, the edge of the gravestone and also the grass bottom right. I like the lighting on the foreground gravestone but it looks false on the background stone.

Final thoughts: I didn't vote in this challenge but would probably have left a 5. Now, if you had taken the image on a moonlit night with some moody clouds then a 6 would have been my starting point. BTW, you should try a lensbaby, they are made for images like this!
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 08/19/2009 12:29:38 PM
Black and white suits this image very well. I like the composition and contrast. It's quite sad to think of a family losing three young sons. Can't do it in basic editing, but now that the challenge is over, I'd recommend reducing the sharpening effect around the tree tops.
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08/12/2009 12:43:35 AM
Your going to do much better for sure!
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