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Challenge: Money III (Advanced Editing VII)
Collection: Portfolio
Camera: Canon EOS-550D Rebel T2i
Lens: Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 IS
Location: Johannesburg, South Africa
Date: Apr 14, 2012
Aperture: 5.0
ISO: 400
Shutter: 1/60
Date Uploaded: Apr 14, 2012

Flocki tore her cruciate ligaments earlier in the week and came home from the hospital today.

I had fun doing a lot of post editing on this, I like the way it came out, curious to see what the votes will say :-).


Statistics
Place: 45 out of 58
Avg (all users): 5.0374
Avg (commenters): 7.0833
Avg (participants): 5.0571
Avg (non-participants): 5.0278
Views since voting: 329
Views during voting: 244
Votes: 107
Comments: 17
Favorites: 0


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04/24/2012 03:34:48 AM
Obviously this is a sentimental shot for you. Hope Flocki makes a super quick recovery!
As for a technical crit:
The focused area is perfectly placed for a pleasing composition. It took me a while to work out that the head is on the left looking in the general direction of the leg.
The OOF areas and the white areas around the border add to the feeling of waking up from an operation and being half conscious / drugged. It works well here. I didn’t vote on this shot but probably would have given it a 6. It looks like a nice snapshot that you edited nicely and colours and PP effects work well but it is not an amazing shot that takes my breath away.

Not sure how you could have improved on this image with PP. You did well with what you had but the voters probably didn’t connect with it and as Vawendy said - it is a bit of a stretch to connect to the challenge topic even if it did cost a fair bit to have this procedure done. Voters don’t seem to want to think hard about something. It must be there in their face and easy for them to give a high score to within the 5 seconds that most people seem to spend looking at a shot.
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04/23/2012 05:02:56 PM
I hope Flocki has a good recovery!

We had to have the same surgery on our big old dog who is half Great Pyrenees and half Husky. Unfortunately, he's not walking any better now, a year later, than he was before the surgery. He has arthritis too and that might make the difference in his recovery.

Good Luck to Flocki and give her a hug from me!

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04/23/2012 02:49:29 AM
Thank you everyone for your votes. An interesting distribution of scores ... I was hoping it would do better overall (don't we always? ;-)), but it was good to see some high scores coming in right at the end - thank you :-)

Yes, she is doing better, but of course it will take several weeks to heal and many months to be "right" again.

Good luck with your dog Alona - is it a big dog? The little ones seem to recover much easier from this op.
 Comments Made During the Challenge
04/22/2012 10:01:48 PM
Very nice
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04/22/2012 09:19:55 PM
touching and well composed.
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04/22/2012 06:06:33 PM
oooof 9
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04/22/2012 06:32:45 AM
Has a very strange fasination for me.
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04/22/2012 05:29:18 AM
aww, poor baby. Hope he/she heals well
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04/21/2012 02:19:51 AM
oh, poor thing! I hope it does heal up well. Great photo in spite of the sad subject.
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04/20/2012 10:46:17 AM
Sad looking face.
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04/17/2012 04:25:54 AM
Ah shame, trust she'll be better soon
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04/17/2012 03:34:27 AM
I feel for you , My dog has had knee surgery. and now she needs the other one done its costly ... Great idea and the image says a lot ..8
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04/16/2012 02:06:06 PM
Hopefully the big guy is doing okay....
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04/16/2012 01:51:59 PM
Ok so it can. 5
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04/16/2012 12:22:31 PM
poor baby! get well soon!
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04/16/2012 11:48:53 AM
Took a while to get my eyes to focus and see what this is. Good image but only tangentially related to topic via title.
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04/16/2012 12:26:22 AM
I love this... (and am ignoring the typo)


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