No place to lie his weary head, but $5 richer this day.
by ericwoo

Comment by fotomann_forever:
This image doesn't say down-trodden to me and I'm not sure what you mean by $5 richer (I'm guessing you gave him $5 to pose?) Nice portrait, but not really news to me.

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Comment by nards656:
Somehow I almost missed this one in my Trading Post critiques - sorry. I gave this shot a 5, and to be honest that was probably a little harsh, second view says "6". It's almost monochromatic, in my eye, and there's a little too much yellow. The edge of the vertical board that the birdhouse is sitting on has something wierd going on, can't tell if it's color related or if it's something actually in the photo.

It SEEMS that a larger aperture to blur the background to obliteration would help this. I'm continually distracted by all that color back there. Looks like you've done some nice work to get good solid "edges" in the photo, but the background bothers me.

I do like the overall composition, with the exception of that tree limb poking into the side of the subject.

No place to lie his weary head, but $5 richer this day.
by ericwoo

Comment by neophyte:
Paid him $5 to take the photo? Now that's helping the local economy! Nice tones and a priceless expression.

Youth Detached...too wise, too knowing, too soon
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Comment by khdoss:
amazing, beautiful story and wonderful shot, thanks for sharing her story

Youth Detached...too wise, too knowing, too soon
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Comment by nsoroma79:
The colors in this picture are stunning! And the story with it is very touching. Great shot.

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Comment by kirsty_mcn:
Sorry, this is gonna be a stream of random thoughts rather than anything proper. Struggling to catch up last entries before rollover. Will be better next week :)

This has a really nice, fantasy-woodland feel to it - partly the colours, partly the glow filter. It has a nice, cosy nostalgic feel to it. I like the composition, with the diagonal leading to the focus on a third.

I would prefer a shallower DOF so that dof and glow worked together, rather than just the glow.

Actually, the more I look at it, the more it seems to have a yellow hue slightly like others have pointed out.

I'm surprised it didnt do better tbh

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Comment by buzzrock:
Great flowing shapes- 7

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Comment by szalona:
very cool fits the challenge title need swork but since the photo is so interesting i will overlook it. no need for that border. 9.

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Comment by cheekymunky:
Love the organic lines! Large border suits it as well 9

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Comment by tngrndream:
my first (and only) real problem with this is that it is the wrong color. in my little mind anyway. like you changed the white balance to give it that gold feel. not that it is a bad thing, just that i hike in several nature preserves and they are all that horrible brown color. lol.

other than that, great shot. ifn i stopped to look at it long enough to get over it being the wrong color i would have scored it higher than ifn i looked, noticed it was not the right color, hit a number and moved on.