I waked up at last Sunday morning at 4 am specially for this challenge :o)
I had taken my camera and left my house for some street photography. But it was very dark and lonely morning here at calcutta(India). After waiting for hours I got this picture just after sunrise. But it was around 7am local time. Before posting this I have read the “Rules” and “Current Challenge-Forum” thoroughly. But I was very much confused about two things:
1. Challenge Details: Set your alarm, and take a picture between 4:00 and 5:00 AM.
2. Exposure Date: Your photograph must be taken within the submission dates for the challenge.
My photo is fulfilling point No. 2. And from my view it is suitable for the challenge title. After that it is DPC Authority’s decision and my luck in subject of disqualification :o(
Statistics
Place: 4 out of 115 Avg (all users): 7.1888 Avg (commenters): 8.3023 Avg (participants): 6.8103 Avg (non-participants): 7.2579 Views since voting: 8551 Views during voting: 677 Votes: 376 Comments: 58 Favorites: 18 (view)
It just went straight to my favorites folder. Congratulations on 4th place!! It's a shame to have a score like 7.1 and be in 4th place, isn't it? In so many challenges this would have been the clear blue stand out! Fantastic photography!
This is the single most emotive piece I've ever seen on this site. A wonderful capture. You've caught this child's torment and made me feel it. Damn near National Geographic quality! Should have taken the blue IMHO. As I stated in my voting comment, the only 10 in the challenge.
Powerful, poignant image, great composition, color, and capture of the flames. Just a touch more exposure might help, but that might bring up the background clutter, which really isn't that bad as it fits the environment. Well done.
OMG! What a powerful image! Awesome exposre, composition and subject matter... I was beginning to get bored voting on this challenge. This is the only 10 I've seen so far. AWESOME WORK!
Well Deserve Grade.... this is a photo of sense, touch, and emotion..... im not there but looking at this photograph i can feel what the child is going through... and because of that this image deserve a 10 from me and a recomendation for top 10 and possible top 3
Excellent image. If I'm correct though, I think there's too much NI on this one. Actually, now that I look close, it could be oddly placed noise as well. Either way, it still gets a 9.
this image doesn't work for me, either as a photograph, or for the challenge. as a photograph, it is too polished--there are hardly any textures. compositionally, you are looking down on the subject. also, he is framed in such a way as not to offer any context. imagine how this would have turned out if you had put the camera on the ground and shot up through the fire into his face. as for the challenge, there is no context for me that this is early, early in the morning. the way it's lit (and with no other context), this could be 3 in the afternoon, 6 in the evening, 8 in the morning. all the same, i'm sure those 'librodo' eyes will keep this shot from completely tanking for you.
Incredibly moving and you've touched my heart. You get a bonus point for that. However it doesn't give me the sense of the 4-5 hour. If I'm wrong I apologize ahead of time. It's just what I 'see'.
TC
So far, this is the first picture I haven't been able to look away from (I've been though dozens). I scrolled down to rate it, and had to look again. Was it really between 4:00 A.M. and 5:00 A.M.? Brilliant photograph. I think we have a winner.
Clearly the bestt photo in this challenge, and, I would say, clearly the winner, if I know anything at all about dpc. Beautiful work.
I'm never quite convinced about the efficacy of eye contact in what purports to be a documentary photograph in so many ways. I prefer my photographers as observers, rather than as participants - I don't want to know how you affect the world, but how you see the world - the eye contact immediately and irrevocably suggests 'pose for camera' - and whilst there is perhaps some justification for the collusion of a subject, especially in such a situation, it also (and more importantly) feels like it cannot truly be an 'honest' image, given the awareness of the subject of his photographer.
There are two instant effects of that direct gaze, I think: the first is the accusatory mode - 'you! viewer! look at me in my situations! I demand sympathy!' - and a second, which is the simpler process of the viewer's knowledge of the known presence of the photographer. Neither, it seems to me, is conducive to deeper understanding. It has the same peril as does the portrait - fundamentally, a self-absorbed presentation; in that it becomes as much about the photographer as about the subject. This is not always the case - Don McCullin's Vietnam War soldier, the famous girl off the NG cover spring to mind - but I think in those cases the direct gaze works only becuase the subjects are so evidently so far beyond caring about the camera, the photographer, the viewer and perhaps even their immediate world that that gaze never strikes one as an awareness, more as an absence that is in itself fascinating.
That gaze, here, prompts feelings of ambiguity about the image - is he really sitting like this? Or is he sitting like this for the purposes of the photographer? Whatever the answer, one of the primary participants in the moment is the photographer. And I find more faithfulness in my photographers as pure observers. I think of Tony Ray-Jones, of Kertesz, of Marc Riboud.
All this is simply to explain why i think the photograph doesn't grab me as it might. And I am of course taking the evident technical finesse absolutely for granted - but when was the ever interesting? (answer: about a year ago, in my case, alas ...)
Yours is one of those photo-journalist shots that has such an impact where no words (or title) are necessary. A bit of noise on his face, arms and foot, but a very powerful image in my opinion. 9
This looks like something that Lesley Goodman would do. But it looks a bit over-sharpened to me. Otherwise a great capture and the look on his face says it all.
Magic, magic image, and it says it all, you have captured his heart and soul, well done...... I hope this is in the top ten, and I rate it as one of my favorites so hope it gets a ribbon. Well done........
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