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Challenge: Your Shadow II (Advanced Editing IV)
Camera: Canon EOS-350D Rebel XT
Location: Home Studio
Date: Feb 2, 2006
Aperture: 5.6
ISO: 1600
Shutter: 1/125
Galleries: Candid, Black and White
Date Uploaded: Feb 2, 2006

My wife and I had fun taking this picture. Hope everyone will like it. It took lots of effort to find out the lighting and camera location. This is last minute entry.

Statistics
Place: 49 out of 106
Avg (all users): 5.5982
Avg (commenters): 6.6667
Avg (participants): 5.2462
Avg (non-participants): 5.7421
Views since voting: 816
Views during voting: 339
Votes: 224
Comments: 10
Favorites: 0


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02/16/2006 08:07:27 AM
Hi! Here’s a comment from the Critique Club.

First Impression:
Nice picture! Well titled.

Composition:
Positions are good, lamp on table is effective, but the round object, bottom right is distracting. Perspective is off. You look disproportionaly bigger than your wife. Background lines are distracting due to perspective. You may have cropped too tight. Seeing more of you on your knees may have helped.

Subject:
No problem meeting the challenge. Good choice of subject.

Technical:
Since you didn’t give any post processing notes, I can’t comment on your intent. I find the picture too grainy. Your 1600 ISO would not have helped. The lighting created darker shadows on the objects on the right. The sharpness is soft on the two of you, but more defined on the objects on the right. You two have more gray. The eyes keep getting drawn towards the darkside, (sorry I couldn’t resist)

Summary:
I liked your concept, unfortunately the execution created some distractions. Congratulations on this being your personal best.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
02/08/2006 07:48:36 PM
Great concept. I would have prederred the shadow on a plain background though.
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02/08/2006 06:42:52 AM
appropriate symbolism
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02/05/2006 03:17:59 PM
Great. Consider on croping the lamp ant other things to the right, leaving the main subjects alone.
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02/05/2006 06:04:12 AM
great composition, I love the simple B&W, vertical stripes, and the lamp in the corner.
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02/04/2006 08:02:08 PM
cute
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02/04/2006 01:05:18 AM
Good pic.
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02/03/2006 04:44:08 AM
crop off the right hand side it is distracting
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02/03/2006 02:55:39 AM
This one's awesome! It may hve had a little more impact with just the people's shadow instead of the things on the right -- but this is my favorite so far anyway. Good luck.
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02/02/2006 07:18:27 PM
Should have cropped off the right hand side, would have scored better.
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