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Challenge: Balance (Advanced Editing II)
Camera: Olympus C-5050Z
Location: Phillip Island, Australia
Date: Jul 17, 2004
Aperture: F7.0
ISO: 64
Shutter: 1/200
Galleries: Family, Candid
Date Uploaded: Jul 17, 2004

 I think this is perhaps one of the sweetest images I have ever taken. Its just a candid shot of mother and two daughters walking down the beach. Hubby is around somewhere two, although you cant see him in this photo, buy he is in the others I took that day.

This was also the first time i really went out and used my 1.7 x teleconverter, and I gotta say it gives awsome resutls, especially for candid shots like this of strangers.

My edits:
*Cropped out a bit to kind of just leaving rule of thirds.
*Hot Pixel removal filter
*Used healing brish to get rid of some destracting rocks on sand
*Auto Color
*Auto Contrast
*slight burning of rock
*Sharpened image
*I then used NI. I know you should do that first, but I couldn't get plugin to work till after saving it. Anyway I thought it looked better slightly with the NI filter.
*Then sharpened again.

And that is about it.

Not sure how it will do, since its not a photo of scales or anything really obvious, but to me it still represents balance, as they try to carefully walk on the rocks.

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Votes: 183
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
07/25/2004 12:24:34 PM
So beautiful.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 07/25/2004 12:22:32 PM
Terrific COMPOSITION. Leaving the beach in front of the people, lets the viewer enter the scene. And begin walking with them!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 07/22/2004 12:33:12 PM
Very nice capture. (It appears to me to be overprocessed, though. The neatimage ? makes some areas look too smooth and unnatural.)
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 07/21/2004 11:17:08 PM
This is a good workmanlike image. Composition, focus, color and contrast are good. I am bothered a bit (especially looking at the thumbnail) by the dark left corner. Another crop might have improved it.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 07/21/2004 07:45:32 AM
You don't immediatly see balance but it is there and the title helps and a nice shot also.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 07/21/2004 02:07:44 AM
Very pretty picture. Great DOF and colors. The only element that I found distracting is the shadowed area in the bottom left. But otherwise, nice shot.
  Photographer found comment helpful.


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