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Challenge: Best of 2011 (Advanced Editing VII)
Camera: Canon EOS-350D Rebel XT
Lens: Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II
Date: Mar 5, 2011
Aperture: F1.8
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/100
Date Uploaded: Jan 29, 2012

 It may not be perfect but it's one of those that makes me smile every time I look at it.

Thanks for all the great comments everyone and thanks much Paul for the thumb! I had a hard time deciding between two photos for this challenge...this was the other, taken just moments apart:



...he's such a silly boy...must be genetic.

Statistics
Place: 258 out of 410
Avg (all users): 5.6476
Avg (commenters): 7.4783
Avg (participants): 5.7151
Avg (non-participants): 5.3415
Views since voting: 804
Views during voting: 452
Votes: 227
Comments: 38
Favorites: 6 (view)

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 03/09/2012 05:32:08 PM
don't ever give that kid a camera!
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 02/26/2012 11:47:56 PM
My kid was a competitive swimmer for 16 years. It is a strange breed. And the goggles.
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 02/25/2012 06:53:12 PM
Yes classic shot, i thought it was familiar.
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 02/25/2012 12:51:49 PM
Holy Smoke! This is wee Anil? I never made the connection at all: I would have missed my guess by half a world. I was thinking that we must have a bright new star from the sub-Continent let loose amongst us. Now that loving craftsmanship falls into place. The quiet sense of fun as well. Cheers, R. It's a bloody beauty.
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 02/24/2012 05:50:38 PM
I loved this. It was so real.
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 02/24/2012 05:36:07 PM
Arbus lives! Scratching my head as to why this only got an eight from me...
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 02/24/2012 12:28:06 PM
You chose wisely, Rachel. Something incredibly quirky about your entry which is lacking in the more clownish outtake.
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 02/24/2012 10:06:21 AM
How can you not smile at this face -- and that deadpan stare is fantastic.
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 02/24/2012 09:00:36 AM
This one really struck me in the voting, never would've guessed it's yours, but what do I know. Wonderful!
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 02/24/2012 04:55:01 AM
Wonderful portrait.
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 02/24/2012 01:37:47 AM
Ah, but it IS perfect. In every way.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
02/23/2012 10:53:15 PM
Endearing. 9 10
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 02/23/2012 07:24:57 PM
Dead pan humor bathed in the good light.
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 02/20/2012 04:13:13 PM
funny yet intimate portrait.
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 02/19/2012 04:14:28 PM
Love the expression, lol. Nice bw tones. (voted earlier)
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 02/19/2012 03:42:26 AM
strangely compelling!
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 02/18/2012 10:04:07 PM
I like the way you lit this to create dramatic shadows.
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 02/18/2012 02:27:20 PM
He looks so entirely unenthusiastic, great catch.
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 02/18/2012 10:27:46 AM
Excellent low humor. One for the family album, to look back on when he's 40!
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 02/18/2012 08:17:14 AM
Great light and fascinating portrait.
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 02/18/2012 01:51:05 AM
Teriffic 'slice of life' image.
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 02/17/2012 11:13:15 PM
excellent. love it. such quirkiness... great tones... and what a face!!!
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 02/17/2012 06:23:36 PM
Terrific expression! Like the b&w
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 02/16/2012 09:59:23 PM
As in age or vote? It almost looks like he has the mumps because of the different contours of the left side of his face. Interesting lighting, and nice contrast.
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 02/15/2012 02:29:00 AM
It's a silly-serious portrait, which is one of my favourite things. But it's a healthy cut above other silly-serious portraits for a few reasons.

First is the deadpan expression ... not a simulated deadpan, a real one. First-and-a-half is the distortion to the features caused by the goggles, and the fact that he is apparently oblivious or indifferent to it. Second is the orientation in landscape, which complements his splendidly landscaped ears. Third is the beautiful craftsmanship evident in the technical quality of the photograph. And last but best of all is the fact that it is a joyful photograph, but without any explicit joy being visible. You have here the implicit joy of two things: Photography, and Family (I am assuming the family part, but it's really gotta be I reckon).

This is what photographs and photography are really about. 10, and a heartfelt Order of the Thumb. Thank you.
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 02/15/2012 01:11:50 AM
Ha! I elicited a legitimate lol when this popped up. Great expression and moment.
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 02/14/2012 09:42:00 AM
Thanks for making a wonderful and unconventional portrait.
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 02/14/2012 04:24:40 AM
This is such a great portrait! I just love that deadpan expression... and the goggles of course! : )
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 02/13/2012 11:15:54 PM
Brilliant portrait
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 02/13/2012 03:58:58 PM
thats what i was thinking.
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 02/12/2012 03:18:26 PM
I'm going through the entries, stopping at those images I feel have had the benefit of an unconventional eye and dwelling a little longer to try to see and appreciate what you saw. This is one of those images.

Positives: I love quirky portraits and this is no exception. In fact it remands me of a picture of my own son, where his goggles also squished his eye:



Yours is a much better image though: great shallow DOF, lovely tones, complementary grain. Excellent.

Critical stuff: Perhaps slightly tighter on our right (his left)?

Overall: Excellent portrait.
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 02/11/2012 10:25:44 PM
This is adorable. And really really good.
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 02/11/2012 05:16:12 PM
A pair of Nemo glasses, very cool indeed when your four yrs old.
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 02/11/2012 09:24:28 AM
This is just wonderful. I love what the goggles do to his eye, and how they force his ears down.
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 02/10/2012 08:04:02 PM
Funny on the surface, but kind of sad the longer you take it in.
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 02/10/2012 11:50:16 AM
why ever, it made me smile
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 02/10/2012 09:04:02 AM
The grain really adds to this.
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 02/10/2012 12:37:48 AM
Oddly endearing. *grin*


I found Nemo. :D


(just commenting on a great image... not voting)
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