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On Locust Walk
On Locust Walk
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Challenge: Color (Classic Editing)
Camera: Olympus C-720UZ
Location: Locust Walk, Upenn, Philadelphia
Date: Apr 5, 2003
Aperture: f3.2
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/30
Galleries: Emotive, Candid
Date Uploaded: Apr 6, 2003

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04/15/2003 01:16:59 PM
Jason - how'd you end up doing this? It doesn't look straight desat to me, but I could be wrong.
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04/15/2003 07:10:38 AM
Greetings from the Critique Club

First off - this is an interesting picture. I've just spent a good couple of minutes looking at it. I see that you've desaturated some colours and that's left us with a few very strong colours in the foreground. I'm left wondering if there is significance to the fact that the church is almost totally desaturated while the child and her mother are bright and vibrant. I also wish I knew more about Locust Walk - there has to be a story behind that name and I wonder if it's related to the meaning in this picture.

What I also find interesting is that the young lady and her mother have some movement left to right but where most pictures depicting movement would leave open space in front of them to move into you've left space beind them. That gives the feeling that they're leaving the scene - perhaps going to the church which has those interesting orange lights inside.

I really can't get a grip on how much of this is intentional and how much is simply an artifact of what can be achieved within the DPC rules.

Your picture certainly meets the challenge - your use of colour is interesting and is the primary focus of the picture. The cropping I've got mixed feelings about - you seem to have wanted to catch the couple and the church together but did you specifically want that lamp in shot? My own style is to crop in as much as I can so I would probably have taken out the lamp and some of the flyers on the left but that's just me.

Your exposure of the church and the foreground is good but there's some definite bleeding of sky onto the branches at the top. I imagine on the original full colour version we'd see blue fringes there too. I wonder if your use of a 1/30 exposure is the culprit here - it's also resulted in some motion blurring on the walker's feet. If the motion blur was your intention then there's little that could be done about the sky. But the focus in this picture is also a little soft - especially on the church. A smaller aperture than the f/3.2 you used would have increased your depth of field as well as perhaps eliminating the light bleeding and would still have allowed you a long enough exposure to get the motion blur.

Of course if this was an opportunity shot then all that I've just described is far too much to think about before taking the picture.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
04/13/2003 08:05:06 PM
Very nice, so many other pictures in this challange have no thought behind them. you are very talented!
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04/12/2003 11:54:26 AM
Cute shot.
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04/11/2003 07:49:10 PM
Nice effect, and you seem to have done it legally, I guess.
I don't like the distractions of the papers behind the people. I LOVE the lighting in the windows. Why desat though? It's a pretty picture if you cropped from bush to bush.
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04/11/2003 01:37:41 PM
This is an interesting subject.
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04/11/2003 09:37:23 AM
Nice execution of colours. Good luck
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04/11/2003 01:00:51 AM
very nice contradicitng colors.
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04/10/2003 08:03:11 AM
Well done! B&W and color mixed around! Can't wait to see the description on how you did it.
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04/09/2003 10:25:38 PM
Nice candid shot. I like the colors, but I think a better day would've done you well. The sky is very colorless.
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04/07/2003 05:02:23 PM
Excellent... I love these pics where you desaturate certain colors... I will HAVE to remember to try this! I say that each week. :)
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04/07/2003 01:53:16 PM
good color
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04/07/2003 01:13:21 PM
I don't like the colors.
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04/07/2003 01:03:23 PM
Interesting shot, maybe a bit dark.. I do like this.
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