No possible way to make a square crop of this, so I didn't even try. Also, well, um. There's that whole "real" thing. Well, this IS real -- it's just a sort of whimsical version of reality. (oh my gosh, if I had octuplets twice...)
Really this is a very quick and dirty edit (twelve layers of quick and dirty, but oh well), and there's a major error front and center. Also, focus is baaad; I usually get pretty good DOF even at wide apertures with my Tokina 19-35mm -- just, apparently, not THIS good. It doesn't help that I hadn't actually intended to do this when I started shooting; I didn't have a tripod or anything (maybe next time). We were just playing at the school playground, and the kids were playing a game we like to do, where you run around the circle and wherever you stop (when Mom makes a screeching-brakes sound effect, of course), you have to come up with the name of a book character or something you wear or the title of a movie or the name of an African animal -- or whatever the person who's It decides, but you get the idea -- that starts with the letter where you are. Anyway. They started running around, and I had the camera on burst mode like I always do, and ... well, this happened.
Referring to your day 35 blog, I think you made a great choice to choose this image to compete in the fair! I so love this image, and I hope it fares well in the competition!
fantastic result .. love it ..
i'd sure like to know wot sort'v processing you did to achieve this when you didnt use a tripod so your scene remained the same??... its just excellent ... :)
That is just a wonderful effect (and what a cool letter wheel)
Very attractive and appealing image and I love the way that you have kept the focus going so none of your 16 children look out of place.
I am also impressed by your fortitude, in that you say you wouldnt want octuplets twice, which seems to suggest that you think that just once would be manageable
Wow, I see absolutely nothing wrong with this, it is great as is! The slight variation in focus of the kids adds to the feeling of motion. I'm so glad you broke the rule, this is very clever and fun and so well done... I love it!!!!
Who cares about minor errors! This is clever and fun. And did you say this was handheld? Very nicely done. The children are very cute trying so seriously to stay on path.
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