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Challenge: Musicians (Advanced Editing VII)
Camera: Nikon D7000
Lens: Nikon AF-S DX Nikkor 35mm f/1.8G
Location: Zagreb, Croatia
Date: Sep 5, 2013
Aperture: f/2
ISO: 800
Shutter: 1/100s
Date Uploaded: Sep 9, 2013
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Another blue ribbon in a row? Are you kidding me? I'm sooooo happy!!
Truth to be said, I really didn't expect this pic to score so high. I actually wasn't sure if I would submit it at all, as the nun on the left is a little bit cut out of the frame, which I wasn't happy over. But then I thought that it's the moment that count's, specially with street photography, where there is no chance to get the same scene twice for another take. At the end I liked the atmosphere of the picture after I processed it in Silver Efex Pro and decided to submit it.
Ironically enough, the whole shooting took maybe couple of minutes, I was on my way home one late evening with my family, when I so this accordionist on the main square in my home city. Without having too much hope, I thought anyway that it might be an interesting take for this challenge and decided to take some shots, where this one happened to ribbon. So many times before, though, I didn't manage to score so high even when I spent much, much more time both shooting and processing various pictures (and which I liked a lot). Ah, such is life, full of surprises!
Even more ironical is the following: after I won ribbon in my previous challenge, the first one after 3,5 years of competing here, my wife asked me what my next DPC goal is. I answered that I don't have any particular goals, I just want to make some good shots and improve in my photography. When she insisted, then I said that now, once I had a blue ribbon in my hands, my next goal will have to be a score above 7. Never in my life would I think that that will come true in the very next challenge!
Thank you very much for your votes and very kind and honest comments!
P.S. About the photo itself: I tried to frame the accordionist against the jackpot lady in the background, and it looked kind of cool, but there wasn't a wow factor in it. At the same time there were passing many people and the background was very cluttered. Then just all of a sudden I saw 2 nuns entering the frame and I thought that this cannot be true; how often does this happen?! I started shooting like crazy, hoping to get the clean background and sharp picture with right focus. When I checked my cameras display, it directly seemed as my wishes were fullfilled! |
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09/21/2013 06:16:30 AM |
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09/19/2013 05:21:03 AM |
| Congrats on the well deserved ribbon! |
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09/18/2013 03:59:22 PM |
| Yes! Many Congrats, Goran! |
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09/18/2013 06:09:20 AM |
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09/18/2013 12:04:03 AM |
| Congrats on the blue - an awesome shot in every way and a fabulous story! |
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09/17/2013 11:37:59 PM |
| Congrats seeing and catching the moment. Deserved Blue. |
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09/17/2013 11:37:23 PM |
| Congratulations,what a great moment. |
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09/17/2013 07:54:00 PM |
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09/17/2013 06:56:39 PM |
| watch the nun on the left 10 |
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09/17/2013 03:55:25 PM |
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09/16/2013 05:48:25 PM |
| Excellent happenstance!!! The Good, The Evil, and the Musician |
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09/16/2013 01:21:33 PM |
| So many worlds colliding here. Great title. |
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09/16/2013 11:55:57 AM |
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09/16/2013 11:40:43 AM |
| In my top 3 - brilliant!! |
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09/16/2013 03:27:02 AM |
| A wonderful clash of morals. Love your title too. |
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09/15/2013 10:05:21 PM |
| He wanted to play, only Nun were interested. ;-) Great capture. I'd give it a counterfeit PH Blue, but Don has a cease & desist order. :) |
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09/15/2013 06:10:59 AM |
| I think this is my favourite - also love the title and the black and white :D Well caught. |
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09/11/2013 04:53:37 PM |
| my eyes goes to the jackpot... don't know why, maybe cause it's brighter? |
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09/11/2013 04:33:11 PM |
| Interesting assortment of characters among the musician, nuns, and poster woman. The nuns are surely praying, "oh, please, Lord, make him stop playing that godawful instrument." |
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09/11/2013 01:09:47 PM |
| very nice scene - the background adds some extra humour |
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09/11/2013 07:01:02 AM |
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09/11/2013 06:37:41 AM |
| Lovely stuff. Sure this is not set up. 8. |
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09/11/2013 06:01:21 AM |
| This is great on so many levels! WoW! Hope it does well! Good luck! |
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09/11/2013 05:33:19 AM |
| hehe, the story here is brilliant and a antitheses. Well seen |
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