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Going the Distance
Going the Distance
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Challenge: Hope (Basic Editing I)
Camera: Kodak DX4530
Location: Kamloops, B.C.
Date: Aug 23, 2004
Aperture: f3.8
ISO: 100(140)
Shutter: 1/45 sec.
Galleries: Family, Black and White
Date Uploaded: Aug 23, 2004

 Although it may be cliche, a child learning to do anything, but especially becoming mobile and gaining the incredible amount of independance that achieves, is all the hope they need.

Editing included grey scaling, contrast/brightness, sharpen, slight cropping.

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Place: 205 out of 285
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Avg (commenters): 2.0000
Avg (participants): 4.4488
Avg (non-participants): 4.6792
Views since voting: 1026
Views during voting: 388
Votes: 286
Comments: 4
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 09/02/2004 01:27:10 AM
Thank you Ironworker and elru21 for your post challenge comments, they were really helpful :) I'll touch on a couple things:

Wider shot - I wanted this too, however, the baby can't walk yet and I had her mother (The girl holding the arms out is her sister) holding on to the baby on the left side.. so I had to crop it where I did to disguise that, sadly.

B&W - Yah, the black and white looks off to me now too.. too contrasted. I wanted the background dark because of the clutter, but at the time I had nowhere else to shoot it.. thems the breaks! :)

So, these are things I will for surely be working on in the future, and thanks again for commenting! It makes a newbie feel really good :)
 09/01/2004 07:49:51 PM
I liked the the emotion the shot evoked. I liked the B & W aspect as well. Conveyed a better feeling.
A wider shot showing more of the mother, & baby would have made it better. I gave it a 7.
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 09/01/2004 08:44:30 AM
I noticed that you only got one comment during the challenge, so I wanted to add one for you. I think it is the background that makes this look like a snapshot. It is messy and busy and a little too shadowed. The b&w seems little off, but I am not an expert on this. There are many on this site who could give great advice on this. A smaller critique is that it is cropped a little too tight on the left side, I think. I really like the composition with the baby in the upper corner and the mom's arms reaching out for her. It is a great capture of the baby's expression. For the challenge, it definitly does say "hope" to me. Because of the technical problems, I gave it a 5. These are just my amateur impressions, but I wanted to give you some more feedback. - Liza
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
08/25/2004 03:42:37 AM
I sthink it's just a snapshot and not the best quality one.
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