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Flag Was Still There
Flag Was Still There
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Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Motion (Classic Editing)
Camera: Minolta DiMAGE 5
Location: Miami
Date: Dec 7, 2002
Aperture: 8
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/125
Galleries: Still Life, Political
Date Uploaded: Dec 8, 2002

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Statistics
Place: 60 out of 167
Avg (all users): 5.3586
Avg (commenters): 6.8182
Avg (participants): 5.0654
Avg (non-participants): 5.6000
Views since voting: 1371
Votes: 237
Comments: 13
Favorites: 0


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12/16/2002 01:36:45 PM
The Critique Club

I am probably the wrong person to critique your photo being a South African—with no attachments to America—however this does mean that I have no emotional ties to the patriotism evident in your photo!

The subject fills the frame of your photo and creates a very powerful image of red white and blue and you have captured all the detail of the movement of the flag with no blurring—you have frozen all movement. That notwithstanding your photo has a powerful sense of movement with the lines of the flag pulling the eyes around your image. One can almost hear the crack of the material as the wind whips the flag.The clarity of your focus is excellent one can see the fraying of the cloth and the small details of the manufacture os the flag I like the composition I don’t think there is any need for the flag pole—or even for all of the flag—the drama of the composition is intense and fills the frame.

I have a problem with the digital artefacts in your image. The sky is grainy-and perhaps under exposed and there is a halo between the flag and the sky and between the colours. Perhaps you oversharpened or oversaturated—sometimes putting this sort of problem through Neat helps—you should try this because these problems distract from your image.

Andrew
 Comments Made During the Challenge
12/15/2002 11:55:36 PM
Very nice capture of the fluttering flag. Nicely composed, good focus and color. The light flares a little in the top left corner, though, but not that distracting.
12/15/2002 05:56:31 PM
great shot :) I think it would be slightly stronger with the flag pole showing, but i'm still giving this a 10... stopped motion it may be, but motion is still dominating this image... great work :) - setzler
12/15/2002 04:23:59 PM
Nationalistic.
12/13/2002 04:04:08 PM
Nice flag shot. Focus and lighting are good. Meets the subject matter. 7 waltoml.
12/12/2002 04:31:27 PM
Nice, vivid colors, and good movement.
12/11/2002 10:33:01 PM
Sweet! Should have clicked a few so the flag was spread out more.
12/11/2002 02:21:41 PM
Great composition, you have managed to catch that particular moment which makes a flag project a feeling of pride, action, and everything else it stands for. I especially like the crop, perfect. Personally, I would add a bit of saturation, but that's just an opinion. Excellent job, congrats!
12/11/2002 12:04:54 PM
Nice capture of movement and colour.
Being a Brit I don't have the attachment to any flag that the Americans do, let alone, of course, the US flag, but I do like this picture.
A little dark and a little grainy but great shapes.
8
12/10/2002 02:44:59 PM
Well done, good composition, color, action and light. Good job.
12/09/2002 11:57:12 PM
Nice flag shot.
12/09/2002 02:45:21 PM
Beautiful image, I love it- the composition really makes it for me. A 10. lhall
12/09/2002 09:04:26 AM
too frozen, more blur would have been better


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