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Flare Interrupted
Flare Interrupted
dmadden


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Challenge: Free Study 2011-11 (Advanced Editing VII)
Camera: Canon EOS-40D
Location: Jamaica
Date: Nov 4, 2011
Aperture: 1.4
ISO: 100
Shutter: 640
Galleries: Fashion, Emotive
Date Uploaded: Nov 28, 2011

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Statistics
Place: 79 out of 271
Avg (all users): 6.0889
Avg (commenters): 7.5000
Avg (participants): 6.0935
Avg (non-participants): 6.0714
Views since voting: 665
Views during voting: 275
Votes: 135
Comments: 8
Favorites: 0


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12/08/2011 12:13:29 PM
Thanks for all the constructive and encouraging comments. And especially thanks to ubique for that in-depth comment. I'm glad someone agrees with me not cloning out the flare. I preferred the feeling of this image in its vanilla state, flaws and all.
12/08/2011 11:30:32 AM
Wow, I expected this to place much higher. I was one of the 2 people to give you a 10 !

I'm not sure why others aren't seeing what I see. Despite the glare of the sun, the model's face is still really nicely lit. She is a stunner, and has a wonderful expression. The image just looks pure to me, and is difficult to acheive to this standard. I loved it.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
12/07/2011 05:47:18 PM
Looks like a fashion magazine shot. Nice play with the contre-jour!
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12/07/2011 07:07:11 AM
This is in my top three.

I short-listed 26 entries that interested me enough to want to look at them again (I gave them all a brief "Highly commended - 7" comment, if you want to identify them). Quite a few were arguably better photographs than this one technically, but this picture made my top-three cut because it is unapologetically different and authentic. It doesn't look like any other picture, and it doesn't even want to try to do so, and for me that's far more commendable than just doing something common uncommonly well!

Shooting into the light is difficult and unpredictable, and nearly always seems to produce various unexpected little graphic rewards: photographic birthmarks that some observers insist on seeing as blemishes (and so they'd clone them out or otherwise screw the thing up, or even more likely they'd avoid the contre-jour experience altogether). This picture is all the more lovely, and the more interesting, for its 'flaws'. It succeeds not in spite of, but because of, the limitations imposed by the way it was shot.

I know I'm laboring the point, but I reckon it's worth it. There are many superficially impressive pictures in this challenge, but the world is no worse off should they never have existed. They add nothing that we don't already have a tiresome surplus of. Your picture does add something we didn't have before, or at least that we didn't have enough of. Thank you. And please accept an Order of the Thumb.
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12/04/2011 01:54:16 PM
! Top Shot. Great mood. Lovely light.
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12/02/2011 05:34:47 PM
Very bold use of the sun and flare, I like the models pose and shallow DOF and the rim lighting, however, that flare spot over her left bosom is too strong a focal point it keeps taking my eye away from her lovely expressive face, personally I would clone it out.
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12/02/2011 03:01:19 PM
I'd like it better without the flare on the chest. Composition and use of the sun is great.
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12/01/2011 07:02:01 AM
very nice fashion shot!
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