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Reaching Towards Fame
Reaching Towards Fame
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Challenge: Best of 2015 (Advanced Editing VII)
Location: North Carolina
Date: Dec 10, 2015
Aperture: 2.8
ISO: 3200
Shutter: 1/320
Date Uploaded: Jan 14, 2016

 This was taken at a dance concert at my high school. The dance team has been very successful this year (and last year). The aperture was f/2.8 on a Canon 6D with a 70-200 f/2.8 and not much editing was done in Lightroom.

Statistics
Place: 137 out of 189
Avg (all users): 5.4375
Avg (commenters): 6.5000
Avg (participants): 5.4157
Avg (non-participants): 5.7143
Views since voting: 164
Views during voting: 144
Votes: 96
Comments: 4
Favorites: 0

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 01/31/2016 01:30:33 PM
Greetings from the Critique Club!

I recognized this immediately as a dance recital shot, as I've shot them too, and they are hell on wheels to shoot. If you don't know the routine, how many dancers, and how the lights are set, it's very difficult to get a good shot. I like that you took a tremendous risk with the 3/4 angle, which is punishing because if you want to get a lot of body parts in focus you need a ridiculously high DOF. Otherwise, to be perfectly honest, I can do little more than parrot what primabarbara has already said with regards to the crop and so forth.

I hope you have learned from this critique and will continue to enter challenges here.

Susan
 Comments Made During the Challenge
01/20/2016 08:33:31 PM
This was at a performance, right? The possibilities to actually frame this shot were limited so you did quite a nice job on the given circumstances ( I tried to shoot at a dancing performance myself and know how hard it is)
Nevertheless I want to tell you why I rated this only 5:
I don't like her hand cropped off, the spare room above her head is missing at the bottom. The light on her face is not ideal since it is mainly on the turned away side. The cut between blue and black background is running right through the second girls head - would have been nice to have a consistent bg. But I like the determined expression which you picked up nicely in your title
 01/20/2016 06:11:42 AM
Nearer to the top than the bottom in my booklet.
 01/16/2016 04:16:27 PM
What an image! I really like this.
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