Please be kind. :) Just a Mom who loves taking pics of my kids and want to learn to take some awesome ones. I stumbled on this site and decided to join. This is actually my ex-foster daughter. I hoped throwing in the vintage teddy bear would help date it for the time capsule challenge.
Well, I actually did better than I expected to for my first challenge!!! :) Thanks to everyone who voted and for the comments. Just a couple of quick things though, she looks dead because most pics from the 50's era did look a bit dead. :) It really was deliberate. The blown out area at the top was a major problem I just couldn't avoid and yes, it bothers me too. Oh, and the bear. He really does look pretty old, but he is from a lamp my Mom got at my brother's baby shower in 1968, so late 50's was as far back as I felt comfortable pushing it.
Anyway, I really enjoyed this and can't wait to see how my "rain" entry does!!!! :)
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4 - This is a nice set up, but for me, not scoring higher as I would like to see only the year in the title (likely be a 6 if so) to really 'meet the Challenge'. A photo of this put into a time capsule for that year, would fairly well convey/depict a sense of the times for that era, though the more I look at, not sure that it does convey this specific era well. Criticism; whilst I can see you have applied some 'ageing effects', I would like to see more of it. Perhaps more grain or, not sure. I like the clothes and bear choice (although, for me, it portrays an older 'era'). Perhaps if the little girl had a slightly different expression may have given this a more 'authentic' feel for the time/era, and made this a better photograph in my opinion. Perhaps a little 'wider', further out, may have been better too, in my opinion, etc etc.
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