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A dark place for a sleepover
A dark place for a sleepover
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Challenge: Darkness (Basic Editing III)
Camera: Canon EOS-300D Rebel
Location: Mansfield Reformatory, Mansfield Ohio
Date: Jun 12, 2005
Date Uploaded: Jun 13, 2005

This is taken in a cell block at Mansfield Reformatory. A prison built in the 1860's in Mandsfield, Ohio. It was also the site of the filming of The Shawshank Redemption, a scenes from Air Force One.

Statistics
Place: 140 out of 373
Avg (all users): 5.2293
Avg (commenters): 6.2500
Avg (participants): 4.9850
Avg (non-participants): 5.4088
Views since voting: 796
Views during voting: 441
Votes: 314
Comments: 8
Favorites: 0


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 Comments Made During the Challenge
06/21/2005 07:40:24 AM
This supports the darkness theme in at least two easily discenable ways. The composition and leading lines are fine. Repetative items well positioned in the frame are always nice. Framing is good from this perpective.

The overall quality of the photograph is average and the final score will reflect that. It is partly because the image was captured using flash photography.

This is a wonderful composition but seems to lack something. Perhaps if you captured the image from something other than a 'snapshot' perspective it would be better. You might try taking the picture from ground level to emphasize the lines of the composition even more and that perspective is in keeping with being in a jail. A gun laying angled on the floor would also add CONSIDERABLE impact to the image.

This picture has a lot of good photographic qualities as it is but could be improvd for move viewer interest and a higher score.
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06/18/2005 04:24:31 PM
Perhaps black and white would be more powerful?
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06/16/2005 03:35:28 PM
This doesn't quite manage to lead the eye into the darkness - there's too much emphasis on the gaol doors. I can't decide whether that's the intention or not. It feels very flat. 5
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06/16/2005 02:20:17 PM
I wonder how this looks in b/w as this doesn't have much color to start with.. or semi-desaturation.. good idea 7
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06/16/2005 01:09:55 PM
I like this shot a lot, but was there a flash used?
  Photographer found comment helpful.
06/16/2005 10:46:05 AM
better than wecome home
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06/15/2005 08:49:06 PM
i'm not a fan of the level of contrast between the foreground and background of this pic. flash?
06/14/2005 10:18:07 PM
You don't need "dark" in the title - cool photo


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