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Challenge: Remembrance (Advanced Editing VII)
Camera: Canon EOS-50D
Lens: Canon EF 200mm f/2.8 L II USM Lens
Location: New York state
Date: Nov 11, 2011
Aperture: f/3.2
ISO: 400
Shutter: 1/640
Galleries: Portraiture, Photojournalism
Date Uploaded: Nov 17, 2011

 Taken during a Veterans Day ceremony. I only got one shot of him with the flag waving behind him. This was right at the end of the ceremony, the second to last shot I took during it, so I didn't have as much time as I would have liked to get a better background. I had to use a vignette to cover the blown out part behind to the left.

The colors and detail in his face was achieved by making a BnW adjustment layer and applying it in multiply.

[Nov. 18th, 2011 07:17:00 PM]

I don't know this man's name. Right after I took this photo, I noticed that the family I had just photographed was leaving, so I ran to grab their names, assuming he would hang out after the ceremony, but by the time I got the names of the family members, he was gone.

A black and white version of this photo ran very big (about a sixth of a page) in the Veterans Day issue of the newspaper I work for. It wasn't until I saw the image in print that I realized how good it was. Luckily, I saw it on the last day to enter for this challenge, so I had time to get it in.

Statistics
Place: 2 out of 66
Avg (all users): 6.8529
Avg (commenters): 7.5000
Avg (participants): 6.4688
Avg (non-participants): 7.0286
Views since voting: 3121
Views during voting: 220
Votes: 102
Comments: 21
Favorites: 2 (view)

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 12/09/2011 03:19:33 PM
Hey, I missed this! Good work! Congrats on ribbon!
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 11/30/2011 04:48:29 PM
Wonderful shot, congratulations.
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 11/26/2011 12:38:53 PM
Lovely. Congrats on the Red!
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 11/25/2011 07:34:07 PM
Congratulations on the Red. This image is even more impressive in that it wasn't posed. Excellent work!
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 11/25/2011 06:48:20 PM
Congrats! Truly professional and powerful stuff.
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 11/25/2011 11:57:41 AM
Excellent image, congratulations on your ribbon!!
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 11/25/2011 10:41:32 AM
Congratulations,nice work.
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 11/25/2011 08:29:08 AM
Great shot Stefanie, and congrats on the red.
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 11/25/2011 07:48:10 AM
Easily the best shot in the challenge. Thanks for sharing it.
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 11/25/2011 07:12:58 AM
Superb work! Congrats on the ribbon. Great profile.
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 11/25/2011 06:16:40 AM
Congrats with this image. Nicely seen and processed. Also congrats with the Ribbon
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 11/25/2011 04:53:42 AM
Awesome! Congratulations, Stef! Very well deserved.
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 11/25/2011 12:50:09 AM
Excellent picture and congrats on the well deserved red!
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 11/25/2011 12:24:53 AM
Excellent image, congratulations on your ribbon.
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 11/25/2011 12:19:05 AM
Beautiful portrait. Congrats on the ribbon!
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 11/25/2011 12:09:57 AM
Great picture. Congrats on the well deserved ribbon.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
11/23/2011 02:19:03 PM
Good use of vignette to highlight your subject.
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 11/23/2011 10:18:43 AM
This is an outstanding shot. Excellent job.
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 11/22/2011 02:46:21 AM
Simple, poignant, well done. All the elements of the challenge, combined wonderfully together.
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 11/18/2011 07:05:00 PM
A very strong image. I'll bet he loves this.
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 11/18/2011 03:59:11 AM
wonderful photography. Love the detail and the memories that I can read on his face. 8
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