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Challenge: Portrait (Advanced Editing I)
Camera: Canon PowerShot S40
Location: home
Date: Mar 14, 2004
Date Uploaded: Mar 14, 2004

In portraits, the grace, and, we may add, the likeness, consists more in the general air than in the exact similitude of every feature. --Sir J. Reynolds.

Statistics
Place: 107 out of 135
Avg (all users): 4.7512
Avg (commenters): 5.2000
Avg (participants): 4.6429
Avg (non-participants): 4.8468
Views since voting: 827
Votes: 209
Comments: 16
Favorites: 0


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03/28/2004 10:35:25 PM
Greetings from the Critique Club...

Hi Jbruno...

I think this is a decent portrait shot. The composition is nice and the soft light and soft focus effect seems to work nicely in conjunction with the image noise. I think the low contrast always adds a sense of peacefulness to the image. It looks like the comments you have received on this photo are all over the board. Black and white, soft focus, and grain are all elements that are liked and disliked subjectively. Not many people take the purpose behind it into consideration and evaluate based on those considerations.

Good work :)

John Setzler
 Comments Made During the Challenge
03/21/2004 10:47:06 PM
Soft
03/21/2004 01:40:07 AM
2 ,,, lacks focus and too dark.
03/18/2004 04:02:49 PM
Looks like hot fixage... The composition is great but this granularity adds nothing. Also the mid-tone range is lost somewhere.
03/16/2004 07:45:30 PM
Very soft and dreamy. Nicely done. BOL
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03/16/2004 05:49:04 PM
You might have been going for the fuzzy noisy look, but i'm not so sure that it works for this picture - a less noisy (neatimage tinkled) photo might of conveyed the warm comforting feel in the photo better? An image with less noise would have given more detail, which personally i feel is semi-important in a portrait. And finally I would have cropped the bottom off a bit - more head less blanket. Composition though is really good, and i like the lighting. 6.
03/16/2004 03:51:06 PM
A nice peaceful photograph. A great capture of the subject's personality - something every portrait should strive to do. I like the tones and the lighting.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
03/16/2004 07:32:15 AM
Very nice set-up, but the grain to me, doesn't work on this one.
03/15/2004 06:42:04 PM
Too grainy. I would have liked it better in focus.
03/15/2004 01:50:04 PM
The SonnyH?
03/15/2004 01:49:11 PM
nicely composed and very sweet and tender, but way to underexposed.
03/15/2004 01:39:13 PM
well composed and the grayscale works well. A little grainy.
03/15/2004 12:42:43 PM
Cute sleeping baby. Seeing more blanket then baby, little grain, but the light is okay.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
03/15/2004 08:56:37 AM
Very sweet - nice use of noise to soften the image further - low contrast too to emphasise the message.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
03/15/2004 12:41:11 AM
has a nice soft feel to it and that works ok for a baby picture I think...there is a piece of something that looks as if it is coming out the top of his head the kind of pulls my eye away
03/15/2004 12:16:39 AM
This was my idea! LOL! A lovely shot of a lovely child but the noise in this shot is very distracting, almost over softened. A 6


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