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Keeping Together Though Trials Loom
Keeping Together Though Trials Loom
KristinaG


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Challenge: Family II (Advanced Editing VII)
Camera: Canon EOS-400D Rebel XTi
Lens: Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6
Location: Mount Whitney, CA
Date: May 30, 2010
Date Uploaded: May 31, 2010

 I don't care how many DNMC comments I get.
This actually IS my family in this picture. So stick it!
Haha, I know this is a kind of a stretch for the challenge, but I do think it depicts something valuable about family. We face many trials together, but ultimately it is keeping together that allows us to go past them.

This is on the climb of Mount Whitney I did this weekend. I sprained my ACL two weeks ago, so by High Camp (about 3/4rds up, and where I took the picture) I was hurting pretty badly and decided to stay behind.
Plus, I had this picture in my head, so...it wasn't my own weakness. Photography MADE me do it :-P

Anticipated critique is that the hiking path is cut off on the right. I had one shot where that was not the case, but I was missing the foreground elements which I found important to make the shot.
Edit was a lot of removing a severe yellow tinge from the photo: curves, color balance, levels. And also a lot of minor spot editing, removing some distracting small rocks as well as some hikers that did not belong to my family hiking higher up. Mere tiny black specks in the snow.

Statistics
Place: 44 out of 70
Avg (all users): 4.9330
Avg (commenters): 4.7143
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 06/09/2010 10:59:13 AM
Originally posted by Fiora:
I don't know what "stuck and rotated" means,

I was responding to this line of yours in your notes on the shot:
Originally posted by Fiora:
This actually IS my family in this picture. So stick it!
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 06/09/2010 04:04:26 AM
You were raised by ants?? :P
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 06/09/2010 01:05:02 AM
I don't know what "stuck and rotated" means, but it is perfectly alright if you thought it didn't fit the challenge. This is one of those shots that I just submitted for myself. Heck, if someone else had submitted this, I probably would have given it a 4 for not meeting the challenge myself ;-)
 06/09/2010 12:43:28 AM
I can appreciate that it did technically fit the challenge, but that was not really conveyed to the viewer and was more landscape than family shot. A great shot in spite of it all. I'll consider it stuck and rotated. ;-}
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
06/08/2010 08:55:52 PM
The perspective is incredible!
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 06/06/2010 04:24:33 PM
family ?
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 06/06/2010 04:12:02 PM
Beautiful landscape - but the sense of family just isn't there when the people become dots.
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 06/05/2010 07:15:21 PM
an impressive hiking location
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 06/05/2010 07:02:27 PM
Beautiful scenery. I'm assuming the little ants are people :)
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 06/02/2010 12:14:23 PM
great idea, very dramatic imagery.
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 06/02/2010 09:22:28 AM
Good Job. 6.
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 06/02/2010 01:01:39 AM
This is a tough call. Those tiny dots *could* be a family, but this is really a landscape and does not convey anything about family to me. A very cool landscape, however.
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