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Steely gaze
Steely gaze
saiphfire


Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Sepia (Basic Editing)
Camera: Canon EOS-40D
Lens: Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II
Location: Boston, MA
Date: Apr 27, 2008
Aperture: f/4.6
ISO: 400
Shutter: 1/250 sec.
Galleries: Urban, Emotive
Date Uploaded: Apr 28, 2008

This is part of a set bronzes in Boston in honor of those who died in the Irish potato famine. It was a really interesting set of statues which involved a man woman and child who are healthy and well dressed looking across a courtyard at a man woman and child who are in rags, on the verge of starvation, and obviously in great distress. My friend and I had a debate about whether it was the same family at two different times or two different families.

I played with the color a bit to try to make a better duotone photo - I don't really know what I'm doing on that front, though, unfortunately, so there was a lot of "undo." The face was really dark so lightened shadows, darkened highlights, convert to b/w, colorize, neatimage, crop, resize, sharpen. I wish the pidgen had been a little more in focus, but it was a hazy day and my aperture was fairly large.

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 Comments Made During the Challenge
05/03/2008 01:03:19 PM
Nice balance of tones.
05/01/2008 02:00:07 PM
Great stuff...
04/30/2008 11:06:24 PM
I;m not really into photos of sculptures, but the bird does make this funny
04/30/2008 10:37:38 PM
Nice comp but could use a bit more contrast.
04/30/2008 05:31:16 PM
There should be a caption competition with this careful and sympatetic view of the statue and pigeon
04/30/2008 04:19:48 PM
Great perspective! The pigeon adds some humour too. Nice.


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