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Challenge: Shoes (Basic Editing III)
Camera: Kodak DX6340
Location: My house, my bedroom... do you need GPS precision?
Date: Aug 25, 2005
Aperture: 1:3.4
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/30 s
Galleries: Family, Portraiture
Date Uploaded: Aug 26, 2005

I just couldn't find a pair of man-made shoes with a package this cute... Meet my baby sister, Hannah, 6 months. :D I got this idea while watching her pull at her feet and trying to stick them in her mouth.

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Place: 449 out of 465
Avg (all users): 3.7243
Avg (commenters): 2.5882
Avg (participants): 3.4307
Avg (non-participants): 4.0222
Views since voting: 1032
Views during voting: 416
Votes: 272
Comments: 22
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09/13/2005 06:52:28 PM
Greetings from the Critique Club:

Congratulations on getting through your first Challenge.You have entered a priceless image of this lovely little baby.

Compositionally, I'd suggest that you crop the image a bit tighter; the carpet really doesn't do much of anything to enhance the picture. Perhaps, instead, you might introduce a brightly patterned pillow. The lighting is quite good - a bit of light to the right wouldn't hurt. And you might want to explore photographing Hannah from different angles, although I realize you wanted to accentuate the feet.

Finally, you learned early that voters take the Challenge theme extremely seriously. So, while this is an appealing image, most felt it just didn't meet the challenge of photographing shoes...

You have a good eye, and I'll look forward to seeing more of your work in future Challenges.

Good luck!
 Comments Made During the Challenge
09/06/2005 02:23:10 PM
Very cute, would have liked to see a tighter crop on the baby though & lose some of the carpet.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
09/05/2005 03:04:10 PM
If there aren't shoes in the picture it doesn't have anything to do with the challenge.
09/04/2005 05:32:12 PM
Cute, but where are the shoes?
09/04/2005 11:27:02 AM
a bare foot kind of misses the purpose of the challenge.
Since you did ask what you could have done differently on the boards her e is what i would have done. Destaurated the carpet - the different colour speckles are distracting.
Either focused the camera on babies face, or if you really wanted it to be a feet photo used a shallowed DOF and focused completely on the feet. Right now the focus seems to be the bum.
Gotten a little more above baby, more looking srtairght down so not to hieghtlight the paer shape the diaper makes the baby appeear to have (personally i would have used a nude baby but thats just me)
I do like the placement of the baby in the frame - as far as DNMC photos go, this is definately in the top.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
09/03/2005 06:48:47 PM
Cute shot of a beautiful baby, and I understand your title. I wish there had been a small pair of shoes somewhere in this shot.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
09/03/2005 07:59:12 AM
shoes are needed somewhere in this shot DMtC
  Photographer found comment helpful.
09/02/2005 06:52:30 PM
Cute baby.. but I don't see any shoes. A tad out of focus I think, but overall a nice shot, just wish it had something to do with shoes and not just a play on words in the title.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
09/02/2005 03:26:01 PM
Appears to side step the challenge theme.
09/02/2005 05:36:31 AM
No shoes in the picture.
09/01/2005 11:47:32 PM
Cute baby pic but it's against tough competition
  Photographer found comment helpful.
09/01/2005 03:53:13 PM
no shoes
09/01/2005 03:01:20 PM
this adorable baby has no shoes on??!! the challenge is shoes.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
09/01/2005 12:43:38 PM
this challenge is about shoes, not feet
08/31/2005 09:00:13 PM
beautiful kid but even with the title there are no shoes. Maybe a macro shot of the feet held close to big shoes - or something like that.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
08/31/2005 08:19:02 PM
Cute kid. BUT WHERE ARE THE BIRTHDAY SHOES?
08/31/2005 06:49:40 PM
Very cute baby, but wouldn't a pair of baby shoes on those little feet be even cuter? (Besides fitting the challenge)
08/31/2005 06:09:07 PM
DNMC, no shoes in this shot, bare feet are not shoes in any culture, if I wore my birthday suit to work I'd get fired.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
08/31/2005 04:33:04 PM
Aw the baby is so cute. But I don't see any bday shoes.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
08/31/2005 12:37:10 PM
I know what you mean but the subject needs shoes - too loose a connection
  Photographer found comment helpful.
08/31/2005 05:13:00 AM
cute shot, it would have done it for me more if the baby was smiling, or had a toe in it's mouth :) The ligting seems a little bright from the left side.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
08/30/2005 08:13:09 PM
sorry but i can't see the shoes; also i would have cropped on the left to get the lovely baby into the middle.


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