Part of my civic involvement includes being involved with and maintaining a website for a local grassroots non-profit organization called "Save Our Groundwater" (www.SaveOurGroundwater.org). We're fighting against a water bottling company who wants to come in and draw 439,000 gallons of water a day out of our slow recharging aquifer (and sell the water overseas at EuroDisney). It sucks. Here's one of my fellow protesters helping to drawing attention to the issue.
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This was a good shot for a photojournalism shot. COMPOSITION- This is a good shot for the challenge. I didn't know bottled water created any conflicts with people. Shows what I knew. She doesn't look in protest with a smile. I would have liked to see it cropped a little less to get the rest of her feet into the shot. The angle where you took this is great, you've done good in not getting your shadow into the shot with where the sun is. I like how you've got the website on the sign too, that tells the story. Good work.
BACKGROUND- The background is kind of plain. I wonder if you could have used a bigger aperature to blur out the background and just have her in focus. If there were more people all lined up with signs that would have worked too.
Camera Work- Focus and detail on her are great. Colors are nice and not messed up. Have the sign and her in good detail is what this shot is about.
DIgital Processing- you've done a great job with it. The colors and everything are good. I don't know what causes the compression artifacts but it looks like you have a very small amount of them around the top part of her chair in the shadows. I wonder why its like that in shadows. I think if we could save it with a bigger file it would have totally got rid of those.
My Opinion- I thought this told a great story. I had rated it above average during the voting. Great shot and great story behind it. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks to all who commented on my picture. Yes, she is smiling and looking at the camera. In other pics I took she was busy talking, not as well lit (sun came over the trees at the end of our 7am-9am protest), and not in as sharp focus. C'est la vie. She's a hellraiser, and she happens to be a happy lady - I guess that's the story here. Her property borders the property where they want to build this bottling plant. Even though she uses a cane to walk, she is always at our protests and she's always writing letters to the editor and state officials. One of the big wigs in the Department of Environmental Services in our state called her "THE VIOLENT ONE". So... looks can be deceiving.
Great shot, and great topic. I wish I had that shirt she's wearing. But her smiling at the camera sort of distracts from the "photojournalist" angle of the challenge. If she had been looking away, it would look more like a newspaper shot and less like a pose. Just MHO. muckpond
Is this sign and protest for real? Someone's gramma is out there freezing. How do I know, the picture tells me so. So I want to read the article to see if this is real. Good composition with great execution. Likee the contrast of the weeks with the snow. She looks like a sweet old lady. Good job. PTL9
Nice and friendly! There 's snow - my absolute sympathy for the woman sitting there! Technically 'just' a snapshot, but with a message and therefore better than average!!! 7 - KAOS. ...It's a pity you cut her boots off!
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