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Challenge: Candid II (Advanced Editing III)
Camera: Canon EOS-300D Rebel
Location: A Dining Room
Date: Dec 31, 2004
Aperture: F/4.5
ISO: 1600
Shutter: 1/80
Galleries: Family, Candid
Date Uploaded: Jan 1, 2005

Shot handheld, no flash, during a rousing game of Cranium. Thank God for Neat Image...

post: desat, applied neat image, adjusted levels, brightness/contrast, sized

Statistics
Place: 89 out of 173
Avg (all users): 5.3671
Avg (commenters): 9.0000
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Avg (non-participants): 5.5820
Views since voting: 845
Views during voting: 294
Votes: 207
Comments: 8
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01/26/2005 12:15:14 AM
The boy in the mirror is a great, subtle touch in this that makes it work. I'd be very very tempted to crop this just past the nose of the person on the left (so she isn't in the photo at all) and just above the can and score pad/pencil. It is then framed by the curtains, has the focus much tighter on the person making the face, the boy is looking at her, and there is a real strong triangular composition between the remaining three heads that leads you around the scene, back up the curtain, in to the mirror, back to the woman, down her arm and so on...

You also get a bit of the board and question in the shot to give context.

Technically I really abhore neat image - skin just doesn't look this featureless. NI can be used subtly, but it takes a bit of work to not have plastic people.
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01/10/2005 07:51:46 AM
Focus is just right and, as a few others said, excellent capture of the face in the mirror!
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
01/09/2005 03:30:23 PM
They didn't even notice?
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01/09/2005 12:22:11 PM
Great title, great subjects -- a nine.
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01/05/2005 03:14:21 AM
LOL, the best part is the face in the mirror
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01/04/2005 02:49:39 AM
I like how you can see others in the room through the mirror. Mirrors, I've found, can be a great asset in making a shot more interesting.
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01/04/2005 01:37:53 AM
This is just SO dine, the expressions, the tonal control, the overall human richness of it. The face in the mirror TOTALLY takes it over the top. Fine candid!
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01/03/2005 05:58:31 PM
Nice job!
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