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Challenge: Shoes (Basic Editing III)
Camera: Nikon D70
Lens: Nikon AF Zoom-Nikkor 70-210mm f/4.0
Location: Mont Tremblant
Date: Aug 27, 2005
Aperture: f/4
ISO: 400
Shutter: 1/640
Galleries: Urban, Candid
Date Uploaded: Aug 28, 2005

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Statistics
Place: 426 out of 465
Avg (all users): 4.0938
Avg (commenters): 4.3871
Avg (participants): 3.9324
Avg (non-participants): 4.2643
Views since voting: 746
Views during voting: 439
Votes: 288
Comments: 35
Favorites: 0

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 09/07/2005 12:28:38 AM
Thought this would have placed better. Gave it a 7.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
09/06/2005 08:39:57 PM
The in focus step in the foreground grabs much more attention than the shoes.
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 09/05/2005 10:41:35 PM
Nice shot, but I wish the shoes were in focus rather than the stairs!
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 09/05/2005 12:10:49 PM
The composition and focus is not doing anything to help draw attention to your subject "shoes". First rule of photography is usually to do something that draws attention to your subject, iyou generally use out of focus to draw attention away from objects that you don't want noticed, so this ends up being a photo of "steps".
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 09/04/2005 08:15:05 PM
I'd like to see the focus on the shoes instead of the stairs.
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 09/04/2005 04:44:43 PM
i love natural gradients formed by steps.
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 09/04/2005 03:28:42 PM
GREAT use of shallow DOF!! Works just wonderful here!!!
I bet you're being hummered though... people here wouldn't recognize a good shot even if it fell on their heads... 10
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 09/04/2005 09:09:46 AM
Focus in the wrong place. Could have been much better. As a general rule the shoes should have been nearer the foreground with the focus disappearing behind them.
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 09/04/2005 04:45:14 AM
Very nice composition, I like it!
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 09/03/2005 11:22:52 PM
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Message edited by author 2006-08-17 12:34:26.
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 09/03/2005 09:47:49 PM
I like the DOF, makes it special. :-)
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 09/03/2005 08:07:12 PM
Fit Challenge Criteria: 0/2
Contrast/Color: 0/2
Composition: 0/2
Photo Quality: 1/2
My Subjective Affinity: 0/2

Sorry. On a challenge for shoes, I think the shoes should be the main focus, or at least close to it. The first step appears as if it is in focus, but the shallow DOF hurts the image quite a bit.
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 09/03/2005 03:55:09 PM
very unique execution, I like it
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 09/03/2005 11:20:38 AM
is you subject shoes or stairs. To me stairs, so a low score.
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 09/03/2005 03:00:19 AM
Presumably, the shoes are the main interest in this shot. Why are they out of focus. I really like the texture of the steps, and it has the possibility of being a really good shot, but it's all foreground with nothing in it.
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 09/02/2005 11:41:53 PM
nice concept although i feel the background should have been in focus as opposed to the foreground.. maybe this was intentional?
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 09/02/2005 12:45:19 PM
This has the wrong subject in focus. My eye is drawn to the step instead of the walker.
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 09/02/2005 09:20:45 AM
Great stuff, I like it. 9
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 09/02/2005 09:05:48 AM
steps are not the criteria for this challenge, sorry
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 09/01/2005 10:02:49 PM
I would have focused on the shoes since the title refers to them
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 09/01/2005 06:53:09 PM
the shoes in this photo are so far away. why are they like that. the focus of this photo seems to be on the stairs.
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 09/01/2005 04:53:41 PM
i dont like the depth of field with this one. a nice all-around sharp photo would have done it better for me.
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 09/01/2005 03:18:55 PM
Focus! Focus!
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 09/01/2005 01:24:07 PM
sorry couldn't give a high score because the subject was so out of focus it actually sent my eyes funny. Good Idea tho'
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 09/01/2005 11:25:43 AM
Nice texture. I like how the feet are out of focus, but you may have wanted to bring them a little closer. Title is boring.
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 09/01/2005 09:20:51 AM
You got your leading lines. You got your selective focus. You got your abstracted subject. You got your creative composition. You got your story within a frame. What's not to love about this? A real good shot to my eyes. 8
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 09/01/2005 01:12:37 AM
well you have good focus on the step
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 09/01/2005 12:40:20 AM
Unfocused and boring.
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 08/31/2005 08:29:20 PM
the stairs are cool but I don't really like how the person's blurry.
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 08/31/2005 06:34:26 PM
why is the subject matter not within the cameras DOF?
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 08/31/2005 11:58:39 AM
Shoudlnt the focus have been the shoes?
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 08/31/2005 07:23:57 AM
cool but I like the shoes to be sharp 6
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 08/31/2005 03:00:31 AM
Since shoes were the theme I think they should be the focal point of the shot not the steps.
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 08/31/2005 01:29:09 AM
focusing on the anti-subject of this photo does absolutely nothing good for it. coulda been an ok 5. now its a 3, sorry. if you were trying to illustrate the intended path of the 'walking shoes' a different angle/composition and making the shoes more apparent would all help.
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 08/31/2005 12:09:03 AM
I like your idea here!
Something that I think would improve it would be making the second and/or third steps the ones in focus. Having only the bottom edge of the photo in focus takes away from the rest of the image.
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