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Jurassic Play
Jurassic Play
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Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Singled-Out (Advanced Editing IV)
Camera: Kodak DCS Pro SLR/n
Lens: Nikon AF Zoom-Nikkor 70-200mm f/2.8 VR DG IF-ED
Location: Johnson City, New York
Date: Jan 15, 2006
Aperture: f2.6
ISO: 320
Shutter: 1/45 sec
Galleries: Portraiture
Date Uploaded: Jan 15, 2006

Shot Raw. Kodak Photodesk Hi color hold look. PS levels, curves, equalize, color adjustment on face, hue saturation, ligtened shadows under eyes, adjusted eye and hair color, usm , NI

Statistics
Place: 61 out of 109
Avg (all users): 5.3498
Avg (commenters): 6.5833
Avg (participants): 4.4154
Avg (non-participants): 5.6566
Views since voting: 974
Views during voting: 411
Votes: 263
Comments: 13
Favorites: 0


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AuthorThread
01/28/2006 03:51:16 PM
::: Greetings from Critique Club :::

Hi, as requested, here is an indepth critique of your submission.

First Impression - the most important one:
Indeed a nice fun, colorful portrait of the wonders of youth.

Composition:
Composition is good. Very well constructed.

Subject:
Crisp, clean, very well defined.

Technical (Colour, focus, and light):
Colour is wonderful, beautiful saturation.
Focus: You have super sharp focus on the child's eyes and just brings this photo to life.
Light in this photo brings out those wonderful colors. Nice indeed.

To grow its vote?:
While I have nothing but praise so far, this is where I'm going to have to give you a bit of negative feedback. This is a wonderful portrait, but it didn't fit the challenge. Voters were looking for candid shots in crowds, as suggested by the challenge description. Yes, you could say you singled this child out, but not in the context of what was expected.

Summary:
Overall, I love this image, but not in the context of this challenge. Had I voted on this challenge, it would have scored no higher than 5 or 6. Had I voted for it in a portrait challenge or "wonders of childhood" challenge, 8-9 (even 10) easily.

Hope to see more from you soon,
Leroy
 Comments Made During the Challenge
01/22/2006 11:08:01 PM
Those look like brachiosaurs ... nice contrast between the bright colors fore- and background and the skin-tones of the child.
01/22/2006 01:52:47 PM
"Drop your fear of candids this week and single-out a person in a crowd as your source of composition. Use minimal depth-of-field to your advantage to help isolate your subject, and as always, be creative."

While you have been creative and you have used minimal DOF to isolate your main subject you ignored the main idea which was, from my understanding, to take a candid in a crowd. I few toys isn't what I would call a crowd and it is debatable whether this is a candid rather than a posed shot.
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01/21/2006 07:22:04 PM
Beautiful, Love the intensity in the eyes, you can see how focused he is in his play.
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01/20/2006 10:14:06 PM
very nice - 9
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01/20/2006 02:51:01 PM
a semi-copout on the challenge but who cares when you create such a beautiful picture! This reminds me of my excitement over dinosaurs at that age. 8.
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01/19/2006 06:38:22 PM
nice attempt, great color, very nice light, just a bit soft, overall very nice
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01/19/2006 10:17:32 AM
Nice portrait. The OOF subjects did not render very pleasantly in this shot. Otherwise I would have given it full marks.
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01/17/2006 08:42:30 PM
very nice
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01/17/2006 06:30:43 PM
beautiful portrait,really captivating.colours and focus of the dinosaur "frame" are wonderful.
01/16/2006 10:39:57 AM
This is a good picture, but, IMHO, not for this challenge. You are supposed to single the subject out from a crowd. I'm afraid I don't see the crowd.
01/16/2006 03:09:32 AM
The challenge asked for a person to be singled out in a crowd. He's kind of on his own but I think the dinosaurs might qualify as a crowd :) Nice shallow DOF and light too.
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01/16/2006 12:20:34 AM
The DOF is good but I don't see him being singled out of a crowd. I might also adjust curves a smidge.
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