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Challenge: Image without Subject (Advanced Editing IV)
Collection: Challenge Entries (most)
Camera: Canon PowerShot S2 IS
Location: Splashdown Waterpark, Manassas, VA
Date: Aug 26, 2006
Aperture: 4.0
ISO: 50
Shutter: 1/1000s
Galleries: Abstract, Black and White
Date Uploaded: Aug 26, 2006

 This is a crop of one of many shots from our trip to the local water park today. I was thinking of this challenge when I took several pictures of this group of tubes waiting for riders on the lazy river (a closed loop of water kept moving by pumps). In fact, one of my outtakes was titled "Waiting for a Rider" and showed people at the top of the frame coasting by while the tubes had to wait in line.

Then I noticed the angle of the handles and the counterpoint of the angle of the sun reflections and I thought they gave an interesting visual aspect to it.

And then I wondered what it'd look like in B&W. That did what I'd hoped - it took the impact away from the color and toward the angles and shapes I wanted people to see.

I don't think this is a fantastic photo, but it has some visual interest. I predict a 5.5 and comments like "not enough contrast" or "too dark aside from the blown highlights." :)

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 09/10/2006 05:03:45 PM
Critique Club Review:

I really like this photo. Lighting, contrast, focus, and depth of field are all well done. I like the reflections and could see where a starburst filter could have added a "magical" touch to the photo. As is the eye bounces from reflection to reflection. The reflections are well ordered so it is a pleasing journey as opposed to a distracting one.

If you could have staged the piece, the orientation of the handles could have been arrainged so as to provide more of a pattern, and captured the handles in the last two tubes at the top; but I doubt the water park would have been overly thrilled with that process.

I think your decison to go with black and white was a good one. Color here likely would have taken away from the total picture.

I don't see the picture as too dark. Given the subject material, and the reflections, I think any lighter would have really blown things out, and lost the detail of the clear tubes. Any darker, would have been too dark.

Given that no part holds the eye, and yet the eye is guided around the piece by the reflections, as opposed to distracted or confused, I believe you have met the challenge well. Good job!
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
09/02/2006 08:23:59 PM
Nice edit...if you would have cloned out all the wording on the tubes it would have been perfect...8
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 08/31/2006 12:37:48 PM
I love this image, and yearn for some contrast, even though the shiny spots provide some.
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 08/29/2006 10:10:15 AM
very nice idea
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 08/29/2006 09:46:30 AM
Took me a second to figure out what I was looking at here, I like that moment of mystery as I first glance at the good frame filling composition. I'm not sure what color these are, but unless the color was absolutely hideous, it might of been better to keep this in color.
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 08/29/2006 12:05:11 AM
for me this would have worked better if the "right hand" hadn't been right in front of my face ... that was immediately the subject to me ..
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 08/29/2006 12:03:23 AM
I like the curved line of handles with the curved tubes. Nice.
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 08/28/2006 05:01:02 AM
excellent image! great as a b and w and the composition is superb...good luck with this
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 08/28/2006 03:21:53 AM
I like the summery feel this has
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