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Challenge: Duotones II (Basic Editing III)
Collection: Challenges
Camera: Canon EOS-350D Rebel XT
Lens: Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II
Location: Aztec, New Mexico
Date: Feb 21, 2006
Galleries: Sports
Date Uploaded: Feb 21, 2006

 My friend doing a seat-stand... not sure that it's even a trick.

Editing was minimal. Crop, convert to BW, adjusted contrast and sharpened a little, adjusted contrast again, resized, etc

Statistics
Place: 67 out of 631
Avg (all users): 5.9226
Avg (commenters): 6.6500
Avg (participants): 5.7654
Avg (non-participants): 6.1610
Views since voting: 1197
Views during voting: 391
Votes: 297
Comments: 26
Favorites: 2 (view)

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 04/20/2007 10:12:55 PM
this is the most amazing shot ... just love those negative spaces created by the bike and the legs and even his face and cap ..... love your b&w treatment .... perfect .. & 67 out'v 608 aint bad !!...:)
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 08/24/2006 09:29:05 PM
super awesome. i like the motion panning :) right on
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 03/03/2006 06:34:40 PM
very cool shot..well done..
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 03/02/2006 02:48:32 AM
Greetings from the Critique Club :)

First off, let me congratulate you at a new personal best, at least for now, I am very confident you can get a 6+ and soon too. I hadn´t even discovered photography when I was 16 so keep that in mind, you are lightyears better now than I was when I was 16 :) Keep at it dude!

I generally like this photo, I didn´t vote but would probably have given it a 6. I like the motion panning, just enough to blur out the backround but still keeping the bike and boy almost pristine sharp, I like that the rods in the wheels are blurred out (sorry, don´t know what they are called in english) I think this is an excellent choice to make black and white, I don´t think I would have liked this shot as well if it had been in colour. I am a big sucker for heavy contrasted b/w right now and this is perhaps a little bit too flat for my taste but it´s nothing that is bothering me, just a personal preference.

Regarding the composition, I feel it´s a little bit cramped towards the top, you almost cut off part of the boy so I think it would have been better to have slightly more room to the top and a little less at the bottom. I see you said you cropped this, if you have any more space at the top I would love to see a version like that.

As for meeting the challenge, it certainly does so in my eyes but I think (not sure so take this with a grain of salt) that technically "Duotone" means b/w with some other colour, like sepia toned, or blue toned and such. While I would have voted it as meeting the challenge and I think that most people did since the challenge description specifically named b/w, I still think that a couple of people must have voted it with 1, 2 and 3 votes because it´s not a true duotone. Anyway, a huge challenge and you ended up in the top 10% so that´s pretty well done, now keep at it :)

Kind regards, Larus.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
02/28/2006 02:56:06 PM
Looks great!!
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 02/27/2006 04:52:00 PM
Be CAREFUL!! I like the motion blur in the background. Very nice details.
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 02/26/2006 08:39:30 AM
Super cool. 7
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 02/25/2006 02:47:12 PM
Nice moving action shot.
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 02/25/2006 05:48:40 AM
great panned shot and nice tones!
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 02/24/2006 10:54:58 AM
sweet image! into my faves.
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 02/24/2006 10:44:52 AM
dang you would've won motion panning with this shot!
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 02/24/2006 05:50:18 AM
Gee, that looks scary. Kids ;) Really like the shot, great panning, nice tonal range. Wonder though what this would look like in color. Better or worse? Hard to tell without the comparison.
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 02/24/2006 05:28:06 AM
Wow! Great moment.
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 02/24/2006 04:22:47 AM
Good action and focus.
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 02/23/2006 02:02:50 PM
My brother broke his arm doing that... lol
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 02/23/2006 10:47:36 AM
Nice shot, we need more mountain bike shots! Great focus and composition
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 02/23/2006 06:51:14 AM
Good pan. Nice and sharp
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 02/23/2006 12:42:51 AM
great action shot...great work...hope this does really well for you this is true to the challenge
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 02/22/2006 06:38:10 PM
Pretty cool. Great shot.
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 02/22/2006 04:10:03 PM
great vocus and sharp image
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 02/22/2006 11:12:05 AM
nice panning too!
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 02/22/2006 09:24:28 AM
splendid!
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 02/22/2006 06:09:29 AM
great!
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 02/22/2006 05:25:31 AM
great detail on this motion shot - brave kid too :)
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 02/22/2006 03:25:52 AM
this might have won the panning challenge ... That's probably what 87% of the voters are thinking!!! Compositionally it could be a little stronger but I enjoy looking at it. 7
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 02/21/2006 10:14:54 PM
very well done. love the panning effect
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