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Dedicated Parents at the Swim Meet
Dedicated Parents at the Swim Meet
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Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Singled-Out (Advanced Editing IV)
Camera: Canon EOS-20D
Lens: Canon EF 75-300mm f/4.0-5.6 IS USM
Location: Maple Grove, MN
Date: Jan 12, 2006
Aperture: f5.6
ISO: 1600
Shutter: 1/60
Galleries: Snapshot, Photojournalism
Date Uploaded: Jan 13, 2006

Took this shot while at a swim meet. The lighting was horrible, many different temperatures of light.

Statistics
Place: 85 out of 109
Avg (all users): 5.0267
Avg (commenters): 5.5000
Avg (participants): 4.9032
Avg (non-participants): 5.0650
Views since voting: 778
Views during voting: 368
Votes: 262
Comments: 6
Favorites: 0


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01/29/2006 11:43:39 PM
::: Critique Club :::

First Impression - the most important one:
What a lovely impression this couple makes .. I kinda hope their kid wins!

Composition:
This is ok .. not fantastic wow type. Things to look at would be having a person on their left side with a good DOF type blur on them as well as those on their right side ... hard to do I know.

Subject:
It met the challenge, and I think that you met the challenge well ... what is funny is you got the same comments I got ... "would like to see more of their faces"... hard to turn when you can't let them know you are photographing them without giving up the game :)

Technical (Colour and light):
As you said ... light was not good but I think you did good with what you had.

To get a Ribbon?:
It was a good solid photo, it just lacked the added wow that the ribbons got this time ... I think it is a very good shot though.

Summary:

Good shot, maximised what you had ... and going on to do better and better things ... it was a good try.

If you've got any questions about this critique, please feel free to contact me via the PM system.

Cheers

Kari
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
01/21/2006 11:32:04 PM
Good use of shallow DOF to isolate your subject, nice candid shot, well done
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01/20/2006 11:17:03 PM
Good, but would have liked to have seen a little more of there faces...
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01/20/2006 12:35:11 PM
Though one person isn't really singled out, the man appears to be in better focus than the woman. Overall, the lack of contrast in the background and the white area behind the man's head (area not burned?) are a bit distracting. (5)
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01/18/2006 06:28:22 PM
So, who is singled out here? Sorry, but I find this shot to be uninteresting.
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01/16/2006 02:46:07 AM
Effective. If you'd had someone in the foreground OOF as well sandwiching thenm, it would be doubly powerful.
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