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Challenge: Portrait II (Advanced Editing VII)
Collection: Challenges
Camera: Pentax K-x
Lens: Pentax DA L 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 AL
Location: home
Date: Dec 29, 2011
Aperture: 5.6
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/40
Galleries: Family
Date Uploaded: Jan 1, 2012

 I've always loved that ole fashioned look to portraits, I know many will hate this, but still don't want to please the masses, really!
I took this soon after my son woke up, sometimes the just woken up look needs to be photographed. Hence his gaze.


The soft look is intentional.

[Jan. 4th, 2012 07:05:07 PM]
thanks ubiquefor the comment

Thanks for all the other nice comments.

Statistics
Place: 85 out of 93
Avg (all users): 4.6879
Avg (commenters): 6.8000
Avg (participants): 4.8462
Avg (non-participants): 4.6095
Views since voting: 978
Views during voting: 308
Votes: 157
Comments: 18
Favorites: 0

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 01/10/2012 11:51:11 AM
So tenderly honest. Congrats on the thumb
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 01/09/2012 07:12:45 PM
Beautiful photograph Anita. Congrats on the thumb.
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 01/09/2012 05:49:55 PM
As a teenager and then an adult with some problems waking up in the morning, I can only sympathize. And parents fiddling around with cameras (in my dad's case, with fishing nets and rods, at 5 in the morning) do not help :D A wonderful very true portrait. Good Job!
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 01/09/2012 12:46:22 AM
I gave this a 7 as I felt it was beautifully done. Glad to see you're true to yourself when entering challenges too.
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 01/09/2012 12:37:51 AM
Originally posted by snaffles:
out of focus, badly lit, subject looks like he'd rather be elsewhere.


You really ought to consider ticking this quoted comment as helpful, Anita. It's a perfect (though unconscious, I grant you) appreciation of the photograph isn't it? Out of focus, badly lit and rather be elsewhere are all surely the very point of your Ode to Eleven.

It's a splendid, three-dimensional picture, a picture with some purpose, just as the quoted commenter has pointed out.
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 01/09/2012 12:36:31 AM
rings the bell for me.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
01/08/2012 08:53:21 PM
The slight blur works well with this.
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 01/08/2012 08:05:43 PM
Cool photograph. Very well done.
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 01/07/2012 10:57:59 PM
A transitional portrait. Good.
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 01/07/2012 02:17:12 AM
Now this is (intentionally) very clever. The uncertainty, contradiction and innocence of the age is perfectly represented in your sympathetic treatment. Your picture is a fine example of when and why convention can be profitably ditched. It's in my top three picks, and damned with the faint praise of the Order of the Thumb. Thank you.
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 01/06/2012 09:37:36 PM
Such an old time feeling to this one. I like it.
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 01/06/2012 04:39:03 PM
Neither here nor there agewise ... very nice.
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 01/05/2012 11:47:53 AM
out of focus, badly lit, subject looks like he'd rather be elsewhere.
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 01/04/2012 03:00:57 PM
I like the soft focus and heavy contrast.
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 01/04/2012 04:22:22 AM
Focus is way too soft on this one, not sure if that's what you were going for?
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 01/02/2012 07:19:11 AM
I do like the PP here, has a polaroid fell to it.
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 01/02/2012 03:16:56 AM
I think it is a great portrait but, most likely, will not score high as it is not a studio shot with perfect lighting
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 01/02/2012 12:34:52 AM
I LOVE that this seems like a fortuitous glance into prepubescent angst. Marvelous image, Anita.
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