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Waiting for Her Captian
Waiting for Her Captian
wehrmacher


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Challenge: Boats (Advanced Editing VII)
Camera: Pentax K10D
Lens: Pentax DA 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 AF
Location: Spring Lake, near Prior Lake MN
Date: May 25, 2008
Aperture: F9.0
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/250
Galleries: Emotive, Black and White
Date Uploaded: May 25, 2008

It took a while create an image in my mind for this challenge. I wanted an old wooden boat; the sort of boat that was old when I was young.

I thought of a sad scene, a boat long forgotten, resting and waiting to be called back into service.

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06/08/2008 12:19:14 PM
Well well Bill, I got your photo to critique, isn't that a coincidence :) I will overlook the spelling mistake first of all, it seems no one saw that at all (I wonder if you noticed it yourself?)

The sepia works for me here, kind of like an old fashioned setting. Personally there is impact missing, there has to be something special about a photo that the viewer can look at and say "cool", this is impressive. If this had been my shot, I would probably have asked a little boy to sit on the side of the boat with a straw hat, old fashioned clothes and an old pole fishing rod, and legs hanging of the back of the boat, just fishing, maybe even with a piece of straw hanging from his mouth. Then I would have used your Tamron 70-300, gone back further and at the full 300mm taken the shot so that the whole background is blurred more and you just have full focus on the boat and the boy. I find that the boats in the immediate background and the land way out the back is too sharp and pulls the eye away from your main subject. Okey dokey? See you in Calgary :)
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
05/30/2008 06:48:14 PM
Has a timeless feel, nice
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05/26/2008 09:22:43 PM
Sepia works well on a vintage level. Looks like an old photo that would be hanging in a public place.
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05/26/2008 08:15:35 PM
Main subject is maybe a little to dark...
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