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by Pedro

Comment:
i really only have one feeling, so emotionless is pretty easy ;)

Barbarian
by kiwiness

Comment:
anymore pushups and you'd have needed a different shirt. good choice to stop there.

and where DOES one find an axe like that?

sweet shot doode...great score too.

P-ness

ps...i like dark beer ;)

Fall From the Sky
by steinar

Comment:
doode...8th highest scoring image on DP EVER. you da man...well done.

a great concept well executed. deserving of the high score and of course, the blue :)

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The Driver
by librodo

Comment:
that's a classy tuk-tuk...a cab AND a steering wheel? that's riding in style :)

beautiful portrait my friend - well done!

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Victoria Herbal Doctor
by whiteroom

Comment:

Originally posted by Cutter: The thing that concerns me with this picture is the fact there is absolutely nothing that would assist me in understanding she is an "herbal doctor". So as an environmental portrait, I believe this is a failure...In light of challenge description of framework of the subject's environs, all I gather is she likes to stand in front of sacks...Any one else see this?

No...I don't see this at all. In fact I'm quite certain it doesn't matter whether or not YOU get it at all. The *point* of the environmental portrait genre is that it's a portrait, shot in the subjects' natural environment. It clearly says that the portrait should say something about the SUBJECT in the framework of their environment, not necessarily about the environment itself.
It's these types of (mis)interpretations that frustrate the hell out of me when it comes to DP.

I see a very good technical portrait, set in her natural environment. it speaks to me about her, and in that - it is a success. standing in front of sacks may well be the point.

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~Me~
by HBunch

Comment:
K i'm finally back for the real comment. what i was going to say was that I thought your editing has improved over the years. I recognized you right away, but you have made an interesting metamorphosis since back in the early days when your only comment about your SPs was that they made your nose look big. :)

one of the things i'm beginning to dig about portrait photography that seems to have taken me forever to figure out, is that you get the chance to become someone you're not - you can tell a story via the image, and there's no need to back it up or validate it. (if I'd been paying attention earlier I could have learned this looking at the works of people like Alecia, Kiwi, and Nasti...but i'm not all that perceptive it seems). So even though the setup of this is very similar to the last SP challenge with your high-key (then) new red hair, the two shots have very distinct looks, and that my dear is cool.

so good on ya. keep working on the processing...it'll come over time.

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Message edited by author 2006-05-26 23:48:15.

The soul that can speak through the eyes, can also kiss with a gaze
by Shecoya

Comment:
it's lucky this challenge allowed for 720 pixels instead of 640 so the title would fit.

LICORI-SIZE ME!!
by kosmikkreeper

Comment:
i hope you didnt have to do too many takes of this. otherwise the locrice would get all mushy and gross like when we were kids and we used licorice as straws when we went to movies :)

nice work bro.

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Reflective
by pidge

Comment:
this is one of my faves of the challenge - great framing and cropping.

Organic
by jenesis

Comment:
yeah checked it again on my home monitor, and you missed the blacks. calibrate, J...calibrate :)

Message edited by author 2006-05-26 02:03:29.