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Bridal Fashion Week
Bridal Fashion Week
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Challenge: Billboard (Advanced Editing IV)
Camera: Canon EOS-20D
Location: Canary Wharf, London
Date: Feb 27, 2005
Aperture: 7.1
ISO: 800
Shutter: 1/200
Date Uploaded: Feb 27, 2005

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Statistics
Place: 60 out of 148
Avg (all users): 5.6875
Avg (commenters): 6.1667
Avg (participants): 5.5227
Avg (non-participants): 5.8083
Views since voting: 789
Views during voting: 366
Votes: 208
Comments: 8
Favorites: 0


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03/04/2005 08:01:53 PM
Gorgeous thet way you used the soft, blurred colors and textures. It was kept so perfectly simple that it has a huge impact and could easily be a billboard. A beautiful one!
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03/03/2005 02:47:25 PM
Much graphical appeal. Nice soft effect. Well done!
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03/02/2005 12:51:07 AM
great photo! i would have liked it even better if the scaffold could have been cropped out though
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03/01/2005 08:00:56 PM
something about the skin tones seems off, but the flowers and hair came out really nice. maybe the soft focus should have been limited to only the backround and flowers, because it seems too strong on the bride. 7
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02/28/2005 09:36:20 PM
ok, i am voting this challenge in 2 passes. in this pass, you will get a partial comment and a score. then i will come back to comment again. if you have any problem whatsoever with this comment, pm me and let me know. otherwise, take it with a grain of salt...i'm not trying to be a know-it-all, i'm just explaining where i'm coming from in voting this challenge. and, if this comment is NOT helpful (of if you think i'm full of $#!+), don't mark it helpful.

billboards are a science unto themselves. a lot of research has gone into determining just how much information a person can digest and retain in specific time spans. they use this information to develop formulas for determining the number of words and letters to use on billboards, as well as their sizes. they also determine the size and number of visual elements to include.

the graphics/photograph on a billboard are designed to get the point across in a moment. on the road, a driver will have less time with a billboard than a voter will give your image. this is a key element in the challenge: composing a shot that will get its point across quickly and succintly. along those lines, a strong composition will probably have few details and make strong use of negative space.
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not really sure what i would get out of this at 60 mph. maybe a different perspective that gave me more of a feeling that it was a 'bride'? the structure on the right is a serious distraction.
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02/28/2005 12:16:34 PM
The Bride looks kinda plastic! :)
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02/28/2005 06:31:24 AM
would have been better without the stage rigging
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02/28/2005 01:07:39 AM
AHHH. Over PSed on the bride. Love the hair.....but WAY too much done to her skin. Her face looks like its naturally beautiful but smoothed out to loot like a bad immitation of Michael Jackson. No offense at all to the girl. I'm sure the original does her more justice. Sorry!

Other than that....the composition is GREAT. Love the softer heavenly glow and the soft colors. Nice job overall.
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