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Go Daddy-O
Go Daddy-O
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Challenge: Free Study 2009-08 (Advanced Editing VII)
Camera: Canon EOS-20D
Lens: Canon EF 85mm f/1.8 USM
Location: Chester, CT
Date: Aug 11, 2009
Aperture: 1.8
ISO: 2500
Shutter: 1/60
Galleries: Advertisement, Music
Date Uploaded: Aug 31, 2009

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Place: 205 out of 414
Avg (all users): 5.5500
Avg (commenters): 6.1429
Avg (participants): 5.5804
Avg (non-participants): 5.4286
Views since voting: 786
Views during voting: 206
Votes: 140
Comments: 7
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
09/07/2009 11:43:25 PM
I like the bokeh. It's like a reverse environmental portrait :D
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09/05/2009 09:31:40 PM
Neat-O! That mic rally feels live.
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09/03/2009 12:43:01 AM
I like the mood and colors. A slightly wider crop (with his whole face) might have worked better. 6
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09/01/2009 05:34:58 PM
I liked that I had to let my eyes focus a minute to figure out the guy with the glasses and the hat. That bright bit of light to the upper left is a touch of a distraction but I like the idea of the shot.
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09/01/2009 05:05:27 PM
OK, I'm going through the Free Study submissions, purposefully finding those images I think are shot with a less conventional eye - this is one of those images! Thanks for offering something that isn't just DPC friendly eye-candy (though of course there's nothing wrong with eye-candy):

Positives: Just a flat-out superb composition. The juxtaposition of the hyper-sharp mic and the guy in the background, separate but linked and coherent is quite excellent. I like the lighting and colours too - bright but still communicative of an enclosed space. You have demonstrated a great eye for a photo here.

Critical stuff: I do think the crop of the chin is slightly problematic but not disastrously so. Thinking about some of the software I have, I imagine using Viveza with a control point on the guy's cheek and taking down the luminosity of that whole area and lifting the contrast a little. Just choices though and it would certainly offer a less authentic image. I think such an approach might have address the slightly flat lighting though.

Overall: A really great capture - good job!
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09/01/2009 01:45:56 PM
fabuloso
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09/01/2009 12:50:01 PM
Nice job. Very nostalgic.
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