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Challenge: Perspective VI (Basic Editing)
Camera: Nikon D70
Lens: Nikon AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 ED
Location: Cape Town, South Africa
Date: Feb 6, 2010
Aperture: f 16
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/1000
Galleries: Black and White, Children
Date Uploaded: Feb 8, 2010

Been thinking about how to do this for a while....and then along came the challenge.

Shot in RAW.
Tweaked saturation, contrast, Blacks etc. in Camera Raw.
Opened in PS - duplicated image.
Tweaked Levels.
Cloned out dust spots.
Black and white filter conversion.
Sharpened.

Statistics
Place: 73 out of 163
Avg (all users): 5.5862
Avg (commenters): 6.8182
Avg (participants): 5.4154
Avg (non-participants): 5.6667
Views since voting: 887
Views during voting: 367
Votes: 203
Comments: 14
Favorites: 1 (view)


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02/17/2010 04:03:48 PM
GREETINGS FROM THE CRITIQUE CLUB

What an interesting photograph you have produced. After reading your comments i am very intrigued by the range of emotion you engendered here. Congratulations! That's not easy to do.

Indeed it is a fine example of perspective and suits the Challenge perfectly. It is 'artistic' rather than a record shot; that is you have interpreted the scene in your own way and style. Nice. I'm not sure why the boy seems almost cut out in the frame. He seems to have a little white halo all around him. Whatever happened there, possibly in post-processing, it works for the story you present. But it may have had something to do with the somewhat average score your image received.

Hard to tell if this would have worked as well with a lighter sky. But that could be one alternative. In any event, this is a good image that obviously worked exactly the way you wanted it to and it received some nice reviews.

You've been involved with DPC for just a few months now, and obviously you are enjoying your participation in the site. I very much appreciated the look at your portfolio.

Best of luck to you in the future!

Alice
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02/17/2010 02:05:48 AM
This is another of my favourites in this show. 3 with children. Hmn. This one, however, is purely transcendent.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
02/16/2010 11:46:02 PM
Last minute bump to a 7 because of the excellent perspective
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02/16/2010 11:05:21 PM
Love the simplicity of this shot. Great angle and well taken.
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02/16/2010 03:44:43 PM
I love and angle and pose of the kid. Utterly fantastic proccessing as well. Adds to the mythic feel of the shot. Wonderful. In my top five of the challenge. 9
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02/16/2010 12:43:09 PM
Great angle and it gives this image a dramatic and unusual perspective. There is quite a lot of grain in the sky that detracts a bit. 6
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02/15/2010 06:31:44 PM
Beautiful photo. This is one I really would like to get in the critique basket.
Reminds me both of the works of Alexander Rodchenko and Lenni Riefenstal namely her Olympia movie which was largely used in Rammstein's cover for Striped by Depeche Mode.
10*.
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02/13/2010 06:38:00 PM
something about the pp on this is very odd, and the shot itself seems very noisy, which is strange as i would guess there was plenty of light out
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02/13/2010 02:55:41 PM
Meets the challenge. I wonder if the noise was intentional or just from processing?
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02/13/2010 02:31:57 PM
This perspctive makes the boy look like a giant! Nice black and white conversion make this a classic image.
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02/13/2010 01:55:43 PM
:-) this perspective does indeed make him look tall
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02/12/2010 11:35:32 AM
I like the Man Ray-esque partial solarization effect.
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02/11/2010 10:35:09 AM
I really like this shot- excellent execution. top 5
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02/10/2010 06:00:21 PM
scary long legs
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