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You are too small to sea-doo!
You are too small to sea-doo!
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Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Backlighting (Basic Editing I)
Camera: Minolta DiMAGE 7Hi
Location: Lake Simcoe, Ontaio, Canada
Date: Sep 4, 2004
Aperture: 3.5
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/60
Galleries: Emotive, Seascapes
Date Uploaded: Sep 5, 2004

The little boy was very envoius: the bigger one just drove a sea-doo by himself... until police showed up and he flead to the shore.

Statistics
Place: 128 out of 367
Avg (all users): 5.4226
Avg (commenters): 7.5455
Avg (participants): 5.2857
Avg (non-participants): 5.5606
Views since voting: 1115
Views during voting: 398
Votes: 265
Comments: 16
Favorites: 0


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09/15/2004 12:31:59 PM
[greslizzz]: I don't really know why the result is so bad. I have published similar photos from the same session on other resources and got extremely high marks. Probably most people here considered that it is just a snapshot - there is no obvious pre-staging in the picture...

[Blackdog]: "Sea-doo" is a water motorcycle made by Bombardier, Quebec (Canada). It was so popular in the nineties that riding on the similar watercrafts made by Yamaha, Polaris and even "Jet-ski" by Kawasaki is called 'to sea-doo'. At least here, in Canada ;-)))

Message edited by author 2004-09-15 12:35:01.
09/15/2004 07:01:53 AM
Thanks for explaining the process, I was really wondering how it was done.

By the way what is a Sea-doo???
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09/15/2004 02:27:02 AM
I am surprised about your position, it was my favourite picture... what do You think has happened? what is wrong in the picture? You have backlight, great colors and better composition!
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09/15/2004 12:23:41 AM
Thanks everyone for your comments!

I would like to explain how this was done.
The "cloudless" sky is in fact a pretty dense pre-thunderstorm fog, so the sun was not very bright. Also I had my Kokin polarizer to cut off the extra water reflections and Kokin 121 neutral gradient filter to workout the sky - thus you can see even some "clouds". The worst problem was to kill purple inner reflections from the lens coating and filters. The colors in the result are quite natural - it looked just like that. You may read more about this scene here:
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
09/14/2004 01:00:47 PM
You did score high with me (7, all my top picks are 8 (5 of them))
Comments:
Composition is very good, it's an interesting photo but it seems that the focus is on the rocks and that make's the boy's face a bit unsharp, so you could try to improve that. Because of the light you need in front the sky looks washed out and gray, I know its difficult in these light situations but it could be improved (I'm going to buy some filters this weekend) Well, again, I like the composition and hope it ends somewhere high.
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09/13/2004 11:30:08 AM
I don't understand how you got this shot. The sun is in a cloudless sky and its reflecting off the sea, the camera is looking straigt into the sun and there's detail in the foreground??
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09/12/2004 07:54:28 PM
I guess it is the expression on the older boys face that speaks and adds interest to this capture.... nice composition as well. A bit blurry overall except the rocks in the foreground. nice try. 8
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09/11/2004 11:19:54 PM
Nice. Focus seems a little soft, but it fits here.
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09/11/2004 07:19:30 PM
Fantastic image. Love the colors. Love the highlights. Focus is perfect. Composition is teriffic. (10)
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09/10/2004 08:38:23 PM
A wonderful image. Should be top 5!
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09/10/2004 09:02:40 AM
Too many elements - eye can't settle.
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09/09/2004 10:10:32 AM
love all about this shot (except the title -- sorry) nice triangle composition and muted tones. you've painted a nice scene and told a good story
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09/08/2004 11:07:09 PM
Very nice composition. Nice light.
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09/08/2004 09:14:32 PM
good capture, with the seagull in the distance
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09/08/2004 02:01:41 PM
Bravo! Just perfect I can notfind any "but" : 10
You deserve a ribbon
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09/08/2004 01:18:41 AM
Nice click!
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