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Challenge: Alone In A Crowd (Basic Editing)
Camera: Pentax K10D
Lens: Pentax DA 10-17mm f/3.5-4.5 ED IF Fisheye
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Date: Nov 25, 2007
Aperture: f13
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/60
Galleries: Cityscape, Travel
Date Uploaded: Nov 27, 2007

 A homeless or just drunk man taking a kip on the busy thoroughfare to the Sensoji Temple in Asakusa.

If this had been more than Basic Editing, I would have lightened the lower left corner, but as it was B.E., I thought I'd better not fiddle around and do something illegal. {°¤°}

Statistics
Place: 51 out of 93
Avg (all users): 5.1752
Avg (commenters): 4.7500
Avg (participants): 5.2683
Avg (non-participants): 5.1588
Views since voting: 980
Views during voting: 431
Votes: 274
Comments: 25
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
12/04/2007 10:01:47 PM
kinda depressing.
 12/04/2007 02:17:30 PM
subject is dark, well composed
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 12/04/2007 10:20:31 AM
Japan has some beautiful and really contrasting scenery. I've never seen a picture of someone sleeping on the street. This would be normal in NYC, but not here. Good shot but there are a lot of distractions other than the crowd that grabbed my attention, so it took some time to find the subject. I think cropping everything from the Kirin tent and right would help.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 12/04/2007 03:55:57 AM
A little too much shadow to really see the subject for me.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 12/03/2007 10:17:12 AM
The title subject is terribly obscured by shadow. If you had metered for the shadows and let the highlights get blown out, the subject would have been clearer.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 12/02/2007 05:20:16 AM
he's definitely alone in a crowd, but his position in a frame does not really attract attention. I think it was possible to place camera closer or maybe used longer shutter speed (since he's static) and increase blur of movement of crowd, or some other way increase the attention to him and separate from crowd visually
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 12/02/2007 04:43:39 AM
free land
 12/02/2007 02:28:24 AM
That is alone.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 11/30/2007 11:26:03 PM
At first I didn't see your subject, perhaps a lower angle?
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 11/30/2007 03:54:42 PM
I would have changed perspectives on this and perhaps shot from the ground with the sleeping person as the main focus and then the feet walking around him. Unfortunately, he is also in the shade on a fairly contrasty day and is very hard to find in the picture. THe person looking his way is a nice touch... but overall.. my eye doesn't know where to go. Most shots (but not all) need some sort of anchor for a scene -- putting the sleeping person (or even a foot or any element int his scene) in the foreground would have created a more interesting image.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 11/30/2007 02:35:12 AM
The subject is neither well lit nor compositionally at a strong point
 11/29/2007 09:01:58 PM
Now that's relaxed! LOL!!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 11/29/2007 10:54:27 AM
I think the idea here is very good, and a fine example of the challenge title.

This is almost a picture of two halves - if you run a diagonal line from the top left corner to the bottom right. right hand side is bright and colourful with the sky, roofs, signs, etc which draws the eye towards it whilst the left hand side is darker and more muted in tone. Then in this darker area there is a person lying down in dark clothes visually disappearing from the picture.

Now in many ways this could be sen as a near perfect example of the challenge title - here is an individual who is very much alone in the crowd and they have further emphasised it by lying on the ground (not a bench or anything elevated) in dark clothes, (to help stay 'invisible) in the shadows. And they are so successful that only one man in the crowd is clearly looking at them.

So I have a gentle dilemma, on the one hand ideally it would be nice to have the individual more visible, easier to connect with - but on the other hand there is a level of subtlety here which makes you work harder to find the person and identify with them which I really like. Good shot.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 11/29/2007 10:44:01 AM
Would have liked to seen more light on the subject ... be blends in too well
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 11/29/2007 09:36:37 AM
Would have been better if the focus was on the sleeper. I would not have viewed him/her if it were not for the title.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 11/29/2007 07:19:10 AM
The subject is hidden from the dark shadow. You should have gone closer to the object and shoot from his level.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 11/29/2007 01:47:06 AM
Interesting...maybe a lower angle and a little flash to help with the shadows though would help.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 11/28/2007 03:51:33 PM
If you removed the top half of this image it would convey "alone in a crowd" much better. As it is I needed the title to work out what was going on.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 11/28/2007 01:44:42 PM
definitely meets challenge

would like to see more details in the shadows
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 11/28/2007 01:00:48 PM
The subject, being so much in the shadows, is hard to find.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 11/28/2007 12:29:02 PM
that's funny.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 11/28/2007 11:33:28 AM
this is totally what the theme asked for, but sooooo hard to see him or her...a 4
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 11/28/2007 11:19:13 AM
I really like this concept. However, there isn't anything to lead the viewer's eye to the subject. I normally don't consider the title of an image when judging a challenge (the image really should do most of the talking) but if it weren't for your title I wouldn't have seen your subject and even then I found myself searching the image for him/her.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 11/28/2007 10:45:26 AM
"Alone in a crowd" is exactly what is depicted here.... I just feel that the subject does not stand out of the rest of the crowd (maybe beacause of teh shadows). Nice but sad picture, I love it.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 11/28/2007 06:36:03 AM
Maybe a different angle would accentuate the sleeper more.
  Photographer found comment helpful.


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