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Challenge: Perspective V (Advanced Editing V)
Camera: Nikon D40
Lens: Nikon AF-S DX NIKKOR 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6G ED VR II
Location: my home
Date: Dec 23, 2007
Aperture: f/7.1
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/80
Galleries: Humorous, Still Life
Date Uploaded: Dec 23, 2007

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Statistics
Place: 145 out of 148
Avg (all users): 4.3252
Avg (commenters): 5.0000
Avg (participants): 4.2258
Avg (non-participants): 4.3861
Views since voting: 919
Views during voting: 233
Votes: 163
Comments: 3
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Nikon D7000
Nikon AF Zoom-Nikkor 70-200mm f/2.8 VR DG IF-ED
 12/31/2007 07:30:34 AM
As promised, some comments:
--Agree with yospiff and andrewt about lighting and DOF issues, so won't repeat those comments. Also agree that composition with regards to placement of Santa and the creature is OK.
--Additional thoughts about DOF: It is very difficult to get good DOF with very small objects, and good DOF is critical for this one. In addition, using an aperture in the 30's (or at least upper 20's) rather than 7.1 would have helped some. Most of the higher ranked entries in this challenge required and achieved good DOF, and did this by photographing large things.
--IMHO, I don't see enough of a connection between Santa and the creature. Had you picked something more closely connected to Santa or Christmas to attack him (a UPS delivery truck running him over is the first thing that comes to mind), you would have had a better "story" so to speak. But yospiff thought the idea was OK, so I may be wrong here.
--Hope this helps.
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Olympus OM-D E-M5 Mark III
Olympus 12-100mm f/4.0 M.Zuiko ED IS PRO
 12/31/2007 12:57:20 AM
Looks like this is one I did not get around to voting on. Feedback, as promised:

Hmmm... (puts on thinking cap):

I like the idea you put together here. What is that creature? Looks like it may be a metal sculpture.

I like the composition and the subtle brown shading in the background. The critter attacking Santa is out of focus and hidden in shadows too much, while there is too much brightness on the Santa figure. An additional light on the critter may have helped some. You had a fairly narrow aperture, so my only suggestion for the DOF would have been to back off a little, perhaps using a different lens would have helped it. I suspect the critter is fairly far away and getting it all in focus would have been a trick.

In a nutshell, I think the DOF and the lighting is what did this one in with the voting.
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Nikon D810
Nikon AF-S Nikkor 24-120mm f/4G ED VR
 12/24/2007 07:05:07 PM
Merry xmas to u to, do take more care in the post processing. The flash on santa is a little too obvious - 5
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