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07/10/2005 10:50:57 PM |
| very cool! This looks so neat! Where there any people watching you do this? I bet they thought you were crazy!! |
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02/11/2005 02:04:24 AM |
| :) how did you do that" SO cool! |
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12/27/2004 12:49:17 PM |
***CRITIQUE CLUB RESPONSE***
Dis,
I liked this image a lot when I saw it in the challenge, and I like it still. It was one of the more creative interpretations posted, and it's technically well done. A small touch that particularly appeals is the blurring of the right foot, which adds a note of verisimilitude. Ditto the cocked knee's relationship to the bright horizon and the wonderful effect of the top part of the scarf "fluttering".
Two things strike me as slightly "off"; one you can deal with, the other you can't.
What you can't deal with is the position of the hands (and to a lesser extent, the arms): if this were "really" someone holding on to a pole for dear life, both arms would be fully extended and both hands would be wrapped around the pole. In the image, it's clear that the upper arm is being used as a "lever" to hold the pose. Maybe "clear" is too strong a word; perhaps most people would not notice this. In any case it's a minor thing.
What you CAN deal with is the cropping. Since the essence of a gale is horizontal movement, I think the extreme verticality of this image is working against the theme a little bit. I'd try cropping top and bottom significantly, while maintaining the same relative position of the figure. This will remove soem of the extreme verticality and let us savor the horizontal flow a bit more. I've taken the liberty of doing such a crop here:
I think this is a really fine & creative image in its own right, and even more so when measured against the challenge. Very good work, friend.
(robt)
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12/22/2004 06:17:06 PM |
Ok for you people who can't figure it out. I just had to run against the post and hang there for 1 or 2 seg. Then the camera would be on self timer and burst 3. after like 100 shots choose the one that i thought was best.
Thanks everyone for your comments.
I just had lots of fun with this one. It was all taken by myself. :) |
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12/22/2004 06:06:44 PM |
how u did it i can'y figure it out?
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12/22/2004 01:29:29 AM |
| Congrats on your 7th place! |
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12/22/2004 12:13:32 AM |
| Congratulations on your 7th placing with this cool image. |
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12/22/2004 12:12:32 AM |
thought i recognised the beanie, you have to stop wearing it now
fredrico.
well done. |
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12/22/2004 12:05:35 AM |
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12/21/2004 09:47:03 PM |
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12/21/2004 09:07:32 PM |
| Brilliant! Utterly staged, but cool anyway! |
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12/21/2004 08:30:26 PM |
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12/21/2004 06:19:11 PM |
Great idea and well done!
The only letdown is the positioning of his left hand which kind of ruins the illusion that he's hanging for dear life =)
Would have also preferred you cropped the upper third portion. |
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12/21/2004 05:18:42 PM |
| Wonderful idea! Congratulation on this shot! Good focus and size of the photo! |
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12/21/2004 03:22:29 PM |
returning for comments:
Very convincing. I would have gone back and with strings arched the branches. maybe too far? regardless, this image is cool and a worthy entrant. Bumping up another notch. |
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12/21/2004 09:06:11 AM |
| Clever, and very well done. I think the point would be better made in landscape composition, but I like this as is too. |
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12/21/2004 12:07:03 AM |
| hehehehehe.... I can do that too... |
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12/20/2004 11:57:32 PM |
| pretty good idea..different from the others..but the blurry feet give the trick away |
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12/20/2004 02:33:44 PM |
| I really the humorous aspect, but you chose a really nice setting for it as well. |
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12/20/2004 11:35:21 AM |
| rotflmao. I love this. I love the cropping especially. I love the alignment of the right knee witht he bright band of the far horizon. I love tyhe slight blur of the right foot. The position of the hands is the only obvious giveaway that this person was not, in fact, being blown horizontal by gale winds :-) |
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12/20/2004 07:12:59 AM |
| lol! this rocks! Great shot :) |
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12/19/2004 09:10:31 PM |
| haha. somehow, a person flapping in the wind is much more pleasing than a flag flapping in the wind. good shot. funny shot |
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12/19/2004 02:27:10 AM |
| So funny. I love this shot. The choice to crop it like this adds to the visual humor, making your subject appear even smaller and more helpless. |
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12/18/2004 09:54:20 PM |
| Oh man... I hope people appreciate this as much as I do. The crop is perfect and the blur on the legs is fantastical! |
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12/17/2004 01:21:06 AM |
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12/16/2004 06:55:15 PM |
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12/16/2004 06:32:42 PM |
| would have liked it more cropped Horizontal...but good representation of theme. |
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12/16/2004 02:27:06 PM |
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12/16/2004 01:04:56 PM |
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12/16/2004 12:52:47 PM |
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12/16/2004 11:43:23 AM |
| It's a classic! Well done, I like it a lot. Hope you do well |
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12/16/2004 07:52:38 AM |
| Very funny! Well done -- a nine. |
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12/16/2004 05:53:17 AM |
| Great shot, nice background |
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12/15/2004 11:59:54 PM |
| Definitely a creative approach. The scarf and stormy looking sky definitely add to the illusion of wind. Bumping up to an 8. |
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12/15/2004 11:50:24 PM |
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12/15/2004 06:45:59 PM |
| Great capture. Would've been more believable had the brush in the background been blowing as well ;) |
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12/15/2004 04:52:38 PM |
| Clever. I'd like to read about how you shot this. I had considered something like this myself but I couldn't figure out how to make it convincing. The scarves add a lot as do the clouds. |
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12/15/2004 04:40:42 PM |
| Ah, quite an effective shot. This guy's talented. Must have taken some effort to get this to look right. Well done! I think the backdrop is quite dramatic and adds much interest to this shot. Wonderful. |
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12/15/2004 04:08:43 PM |
| Nicely done! I assume he jumped into that position, and you probably had a good number of attempts to get this one right! |
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12/15/2004 04:03:28 PM |
| That hat looks familiar, this is a really cool shot. Good work once again |
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12/15/2004 04:03:04 PM |
| This should be a ribbon winner, given the competition. I don't care too much for non-standard aspect ratios, especially when it doesn't seem to do much for the image. I would have cropped the lower part, probably all 2/3rds of the gravel below the bottom grass line. That would have also put the object more towards the lower 3rd, removing it from the almost vertical center of the image. 9. |
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12/15/2004 01:28:55 PM |
| left hand is on the wrong side of the pole |
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12/15/2004 01:07:10 PM |
| Composition: 6, Technical: 6, Appeal: 5, Challenge: 6, Overall Calculated Average Score: 6 |
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12/15/2004 10:33:02 AM |
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12/15/2004 08:39:14 AM |
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12/15/2004 08:20:38 AM |
| Good idea, put shouldn't the grasses be bent over too? While the inconsistancy doesn't sell the photo for me, I still like the effort 7 |
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12/15/2004 02:04:16 AM |
| haha... hmm, semi-curious as to how this one worked with the feet being the only blurred objects, but very clever |
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12/15/2004 12:31:26 AM |
| left hand in wrong place, otherwise very good. |
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