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Challenge: Candlelight (Advanced Editing IV)
Camera: Pentax Optio 555
Location: Strawberry Fields, Central Park NYC
Date: Dec 8, 2005
Aperture: F/2.8
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/40 sec.
Galleries: Snapshot, Urban
Date Uploaded: Dec 10, 2005

 Twenty-five years ago today, John Lennon was cut down on his Manhattan doorstep. Across the street in Central Park, a public garden in Lennon's memory called Strawberry Fields holds a mosaic containing a single word -- Imagine. Tonight, hundreds of people from all over the world gathered here to celebrate the man and the mythology.

PS adjustments: levels, saturday, selecting burning on the people to the left and right, NeatImage.

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Place: 125 out of 160
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Avg (commenters): 5.3750
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Views since voting: 667
Views during voting: 332
Votes: 202
Comments: 8
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
12/17/2005 09:10:36 PM
Not enough of the candle element for me. Sorry.
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 12/14/2005 04:47:20 PM
Great composition of this shot.
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 12/14/2005 06:55:38 AM
Wow, there are two of these, bet you didn't think that would happen, at any rate I think this is a great interpretation of this challenge. Wish the two people in front were not in the field.
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 12/13/2005 06:13:18 PM
Great timing. I would have cropped a little tighter, but I like it. 8
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 12/13/2005 06:31:53 AM
This is an photo of interest in regards to photojournalism -documenting events. My critique is that the scene is way to busy as that there are tooooo many elements present that the eye does not have a main subject dominating the scene for us to train our attention on. There are numerous photos of John Lennon, flowers, candles a person's pants and elbow visible on the left hand side, a camera visible on the right hand side, etc. It comes off too much like a quick snapshot. Training the composition to focus on a few objects in the scene would greatly strengthen the visual and emotional impact of the photo - say a tighter focus on John Lennon's face on the center and the words imagine is one suggestion. Another is if you were positioned at a different angle such that when that person in the background was placing that lighted candle down next to the words "Imagine" would be another (visually and emotionally this would be a great photo for it says in a visual message that his words and hope for a better world has not died out - the flame still burns brightly as does his memory)
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 12/12/2005 06:32:30 PM
two of these, what are the odds?
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 12/12/2005 06:24:18 PM
Nice idea for the theme but the outside lighting takes away from the candlelight.
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 12/12/2005 06:12:42 AM
this would have improved with a little crop on the lef right and top, this persons camera on the right side is distracting to me.
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