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He Died With His Boots On
He Died With His Boots On
GolferDDS


Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Shoes (Basic Editing III)
Collection: Humorous
Camera: Canon EOS-20D
Location: Worthington Valley
Date: Aug 28, 2005
Aperture: 22
ISO: 1600
Shutter: 1/800
Galleries: Landscape, Nature
Date Uploaded: Aug 28, 2005

 This one was a fun one to do. I had to find a hill high enough that I could photograph my subject with just the sky in the backround. I found the hill on a construction site of new homes. I was a little concerned that someone might see me preparing the scene and think I was digging a grave and call the police! I bought the boots at a flea market and constructed the head marker with some broken tree limbs.
My camera has some dust on the sensor which I can't get off and will have to send in to Canon to be cleaned. It showed up in the original picture and I had to play around with adjusting the contrast, saturation, hues and sharpness as well as a double run through Neat Image to hide them all within the rules of the Basic Challenge guidelines. I don't really like the way the final image colors turned out. They look artificial but I think it still looks better than in B & W. Wish I could have cloned out those dust spots.

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 Comments Made During the Challenge
09/06/2005 06:03:34 AM
Perhaps a bit too much sky, but otherwise pretty creative.
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 09/05/2005 04:10:45 PM
great sense of humor
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 09/04/2005 02:52:56 PM
Love the image.
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 09/03/2005 05:08:23 PM
hehe
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 09/01/2005 04:09:00 PM
the sky in this photo is so huge that i think it sould have been cropped. the boots arent even that noticeable. good idea but cropping and somehow maybe more uplcose would have been better.
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 09/01/2005 01:50:06 PM
Nice use of negative space. I like it!
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 09/01/2005 07:00:52 AM
Interesting. Sky is a little washed out--next time wait for a brighter day. Otherwise a nice pic.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 09/01/2005 05:38:07 AM
That´s funny...
The idea is great but there are small details bothering me littel bit.
His legs should be either more visible or totally out of the photo. the green at the bottom is adding extra to the photo that is nice but the long strawes are not nessesery.
I would have tried to take this photo whitout rotaiting the camera and get closer to the subject. Then i would try to put more contrast on it and turn it into B&W to get this western mood. But these are just my personal thoughts!!!
Good luck...7
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 09/01/2005 03:36:35 AM
Originality. "Goodbye" to the last two hundred sneakers I've seen here, "hello" afterlife. I like it a lot! Bravo - 8 -
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 08/31/2005 06:50:44 PM
...and he's four feet tall! lol
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 08/31/2005 01:25:42 PM
I like the image. I think cropping out the sky a little would have made it a better image.
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