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Challenge: Street Photography IV (Minimal Editing I*)
Camera: Canon EOS-5D
Lens: Canon EF 135mm f/2.0L USM
Location: Pearl Street Mall, Boulder CO
Date: Feb 12, 2011
Aperture: f/2.0
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/5000s
Galleries: Candid, Street
Date Uploaded: Feb 12, 2011
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Pearl Street Mall in Boulder, CO. This exceptional and talented writer/artist will compose an original poem on his classic Royal typewriter, upon request. A unique street performance. A great poem created. He uses carbon paper to make a copy for himself. 
Mostly, I shot b&w images for this challenge. None of them turned out to be good enough. The b&w images needed postprocessing, which was not permitted. As insurance, I shot a handful of color images, this entry being one of them. I attempted a simple desat of this, but the color version had much more impact.
Also, I captured my share of dreary, depressed, down-and-out people images. Plenty of dark mood, sympathy-type images. I do care, but I didn't see any interesting, compelling and unique scenes in the "dark" category.
[Feb. 22nd, 2011 12:22:00 PM]
Outtake: 
Four votes were scrubbed at rollover. |
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02/10/2012 10:05:25 PM |
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02/27/2011 10:15:10 AM |
| This one was my favorite. I would have picked it to win. |
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02/23/2011 09:54:52 AM |
| Coongrats on doing so well in this challenge Richard. I know we both were a bit out of our comfort zone with this. I was up at Pearl St on Sat afternoon, I think you may have been there either Friday or Sat morning. This same poem writer was there on Sat PM too. I took about 700 shots that day. As I passed him, he smiled at me and I'm thinking he knew what I was up to. I think it's great he wrote a poem for you! |
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02/23/2011 02:33:33 AM |
| Love that it did so well. |
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02/23/2011 01:05:04 AM |
| This is so sweet/ingenuous. And the poem... |
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02/23/2011 12:22:46 AM |
| Not your usual! I'm surprised to find this one is yours. It was a 10 for me. Great street photography and an out of the ordinary feel-good element to it. |
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02/22/2011 10:44:03 PM |
| This is just BEGGING to be in b/w. What a marvelous, quirky, happy capture. |
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02/22/2011 09:55:43 PM |
| not voting, but I love everything about this shot. I can't stop looking and smiling. The expression is fantastic. |
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02/22/2011 11:54:23 AM |
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02/19/2011 07:15:49 PM |
| Very nice expression on the man's face... sure he loves what he is doing! |
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02/19/2011 06:10:05 AM |
| Love this, I want to know his story - living the dream. |
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02/19/2011 03:31:14 AM |
| Nice image. Personally i feel the bokeh is way too much for such a challenge as it takes that street feel off. i like the colors and the crispness in this |
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02/16/2011 10:23:40 PM |
| I really enjoy that you can see from the look on his face how much he enjoys what he does. |
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02/16/2011 12:33:02 PM |
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02/16/2011 12:59:35 AM |
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02/16/2011 12:29:06 AM |
| After looking through all of the images this one really stands out to me. I love the emotion you were able to capture in this image. One of the top contenders for sure. |
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