get cool
by magnetic9999

Comment by RiderGal:
Looks refreshing and cool to me! I love the condesation, and the placement. Excellent focus. Very cool... brr... I'm getting cold just looking at it :-). Good luck with this picture!

get cool
by magnetic9999

Comment by decoteau:
The droplets on the bottle and razor really make the photo.

get cool
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Comment by Turbotech:
Not bad. Not bad at all.

get cool
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Comment by indigo997:
Very nice ad or stock shot. Technically superb. Nice use of blue. I like the water. Good composition. ~indi

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Comment by Gracious:
My first impression when I saw this image is that it is cropped a little too tight. I'd like to see some head-room above the subjects. Aside from that the composition is good, including just enough background. Looking beyond that I see two beautiful teenaged faces, and a kid peeking over. The faces are a pleasant subject and you successfully managed to expose different skintones beautifully. . That is a difficult thing to do...good job! The dark skinned young man is partially shaded due to his visor and hood, but that works just fine.
Post-processing worked out ok. I think it was a wise choice to remove the grain. I should have done that with mine.
Overall it's a good picture, and would fit in the newspaper.
Grayce

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Comment by magnetic9999:
i agree with tim that grain is accepable lots of kinds of shots, but this is dpc we're talking about : ) .. So I played it 'safe'. anyway, here's the shot without noise reduction added.

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Comment by timj351:
I think I would have left some of the grain in. Grain in candid or photojournalistic photos is acceptable. As iit is there is some plasticity that I find a little distracting. The photo is very successful, however, in large part because of the black male who's looking straight at the camera contrasting with the beautiful white female who is absobed in her book. Even the little girl seems to be looking at the camera. There is a lot of visually contrasting relationships in this photo to make it very effective as a black and white. I think it is cropped just right with just enough information included to show these people in their environment. I love photos like this because it makes me wonder what everyone is thinking about and I start to imagine a story about them. Technically, I think it could be a little better but it is still a very engaging photo.

Tim Jensen

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Comment by magnetic9999:
i just took it.. im pretty bold with the stealth (oxymoron?) : ) .. my only own personal gripe was that i had to shoot at high iso and it was sharp but grainy. so i ran it through a noise reduction and it made it really soft and weird.. sharpening just made it more weird. still i think it would have done worse grainy. :P maybe i'll post it ..

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Comment by erin_m02:
Great job Kollin!

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Comment by Anachronite:
great shot mag... it kept getting better each time I saw it... curious, did you ask for their permission to take the photo? or did ya just shoot it? let us know... thanks!
~jeff