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Surrounded By My Friends
Surrounded By My Friends
drgsoell


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Challenge: Centered Composition (Advanced Editing II)
Camera: Olympus C-750UZ
Location: Alamogordo, NM
Date: May 16, 2004
Aperture: f 3.2
ISO: 156
Shutter: 1/60
Date Uploaded: May 16, 2004

Piled my daughter's stuffed animals/pillows around her head. Selected and desaturated her face. Added some saturation to the rest of the shot. Levels and contrast. Cropped a bit for better centering.

Statistics
Place: 163 out of 240
Avg (all users): 4.9943
Avg (commenters): 6.1667
Avg (participants): 4.9658
Avg (non-participants): 5.0508
Views since voting: 729
Votes: 176
Comments: 15
Favorites: 0


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 Comments Made During the Challenge
05/23/2004 10:26:06 PM
Great idea for the competition but I don't care for the desaturation.
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05/22/2004 02:37:57 PM
I like it.
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05/22/2004 04:59:50 AM
The reason this doesn't work is that we're supposed to feel attachment to the child but she is the least colourful thing here...what about the reverse picture?....everything b/w except the girl?
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05/22/2004 04:35:57 AM
IMHO Selective Desat needs to say something, and I don't exactly know what your trying to say here... Girl lost inna crowd?
TC
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05/21/2004 06:05:43 AM
Great image and detail nice how the little girl is in b/w
A winner I am sure well done with this
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05/20/2004 06:38:02 AM
The selective desaturation sort of makes her look like she's suffocating!
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05/19/2004 09:54:34 AM
Personally, I like partial desat shots but there are many who will score it down because they reckon it has taken the attention away from the subject.I think it does quite the opposite.
I hope that doesn`t happen to you..good luck
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05/18/2004 10:24:45 PM
Interesting use of desaturation in the center. I think I'd prefer leave the color in for a "Where's Waldo" type effect.
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05/18/2004 09:43:27 PM
Fun! It's a wonderful and colorful setup with great exposure - producing a nice feel. My on;y complaint is that your model doesn't exactly portray the feeling it deserves. Evenso, it's one of the stonger enties.
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05/18/2004 02:19:04 AM
Interesting picture. I wonder if it would have had a better effect if the surroundings were desaturated instead of the center?
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05/17/2004 09:27:20 PM
I don't understand the choice to desaturate the face here. I like the photo a lot without that.
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05/17/2004 05:59:32 PM
Neat idea, I may have gone the other way having the childs face in color and all the surroundings done in b/w (and possibly blurred a bit). That would insure we are steered to the center of picture. As it stands the surrounding are much to colorful and festive to not have the eyes wander to look at.
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05/17/2004 05:52:12 PM
don't care for the de-sat effect
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05/17/2004 01:19:40 PM
Challenge centered –10
Creative – 8
Appeal (is it interesting?) –6
Technical -8

score 8
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05/17/2004 02:39:45 AM
Good idea, but why desaturate the girl? That doesn't improve this image.
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