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Thrust and Parry
markwiley


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Challenge: Sports V (Advanced Editing VII)
Collection: Portfolio
Camera: Canon EOS-550D Rebel T2i
Lens: Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II
Date: Feb 5, 2012
Aperture: 1.8
ISO: 400
Shutter: 1/500
Galleries: Sports, Black and White
Date Uploaded: Feb 5, 2012

 Personally, I think sports/action challenge in February in Chicago is a tough one. I checked Northwestern University's website and about the only home event was a fencing competition. Hey, I figure there aren't going to be many other fencing pictures. I enjoyed watching the competition -- an interesting mix of speed and grace. I kind of wish I could have done a better job of capturing it. I am not sure this is going to garner much interest. I hate the fact that the feet were out of frame. I hate all of the distracting stuff in the background, but whatcha gonna do about that?

Part of me says this is not good enough to bother entering, and another part of me says this is a learning experience so enter it.



[Feb. 7th, 2012 03:51:43 PM]

This just confirms I know nothing about predicting my score. A very pleasant surprise:

Votes: 74
Views: 144
Avg Vote: 6.5946
Comments: 6

Statistics
Place: 9 out of 57
Avg (all users): 6.6531
Avg (commenters): 7.5000
Avg (participants): 6.4667
Avg (non-participants): 6.7009
Views since voting: 1360
Views during voting: 293
Votes: 147
Comments: 14
Favorites: 0

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AuthorThread
 02/14/2012 12:12:26 AM
It was a good shot, you never can tell hey!
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 02/13/2012 09:01:45 AM
Great image, Mark! Just proves it's good to take gambles someimtes, eh?
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 02/13/2012 12:16:17 AM
Very nice. Nothing under a 4. WTG!
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
02/12/2012 11:14:59 PM
Great movement. Too bad that the background is a touch overpowering.
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 02/12/2012 07:04:59 PM
almost wonderful...would have preferred both sets of feet. Still very well done.
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 02/12/2012 12:39:20 PM
I know nothing about this sport but it looks so graceful here. 8
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 02/12/2012 06:32:41 AM
Like the composition you have here.
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 02/11/2012 11:25:45 PM
Great stuff. Nice tones, action and stop motion. Well done.
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 02/07/2012 09:43:09 AM
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 02/06/2012 07:08:03 PM
Nice sharpness and detail.
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 02/06/2012 12:40:43 PM
Jagar? Maybe not, nice sport and B&W
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 02/06/2012 10:52:15 AM
Little heavy on the vignette, in my opinion, but a great shot.
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 02/06/2012 07:51:15 AM
I love the Black and white here. I think color would have detracted from the overall composition.
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 02/06/2012 02:48:45 AM
I enjoy shots of less common sports, and this is a good one.
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