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Susan on the Lake Shore
Susan on the Lake Shore
Rebecca


Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: On the Beach (Basic Editing III)
Camera: Nikon Coolpix 5400
Location: Aurora Reservoir - Aurora, CO
Date: Jul 16, 2006
Galleries: Candid, Water
Date Uploaded: Jul 16, 2006

 The girl in the first photo is Susan, the daughter of one of my dragon boat teammates. She's a really neat, astonishingly mature and bright kid. She had brought the yellow paper parasol with her on Sunday and I just had to shoot it. After I began to feel a little sick in the 103*F heat while in the middle of the lake, I was rowed to shore and dumped into the lake to cool off, and she ran down from the picnic tables to shelter me with it. The whole "emergency" attitude of the team was overkill (I sensed where the nausea was going and decided to head it off before it turned into something more serious), but I let them do it so they would feel better. I looked up at her from my seat there in the water and asked her if she would pose for me as someone poured water down my back. She was an excellent model, too, and as it turns out she recently had done an immersion class in photography.

The Dragon Boat Festival will be held at Sloan's Lake in Denver on July 29th and 30th and will be an explosion of photo opportunities for any photographers who may attend - check out the Dragon Boat 2005 folder in my portfolio!

Crop
Adj Layer: Curves (W-curve)
Adj Layer: Curves 2 (multi-point)
Adj Layer: Hue/Saturation: Master 0/10/0; Red 10/-17/0; Yellow 0/20/4
Adj Layer: Color Balance: Mid -5/0/0; Shadows 0/0/-8; Highlights 0/0/-5
Flatten Image
Neat Image
Resize
Unsharp Mask 50/2/5

Ahhh, if only this had been advanced editing, I could have entered this one instead, but it had too many problems for basic editing.

Statistics
Place: 128 out of 326
Avg (all users): 5.5541
Avg (commenters): 6.0625
Avg (participants): 5.4190
Avg (non-participants): 5.6250
Views since voting: 872
Views during voting: 469
Votes: 305
Comments: 23
Favorites: 0

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 07/26/2006 12:03:22 PM
rebecca, I like your outtake so much more. is that the basic edit I am seeing, because even that is worthy. I stayed as far away as possible from the beach challenge because it was tough out here in the mountains.

Message edited by author 2006-07-26 16:03:39.
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 07/25/2006 09:28:33 PM
The perspective of your outtake is better, but the PP gives too much of a digital look. The original shot is perfect in that regard.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
07/25/2006 11:25:27 AM
Great job! A very nice shot, nice use of light and color. Upping original score from a 4 to a 5.
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 07/24/2006 11:55:21 PM
I like the light
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 07/24/2006 10:39:00 PM
Nice photo, one of the best i seen so far. :)
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 07/24/2006 08:01:16 PM
:)
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 07/24/2006 06:01:55 PM
Susan seems a bit overdressed for the beach. A nice portrait, but kind of ordinary for a challenge winner.
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 07/24/2006 04:26:30 PM
I would have put it in portrait and cropped more. Her head turned to her left and the camera on her left looking out at the water.
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 07/24/2006 08:28:41 AM
I think the yellows blew out a bit too much.
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 07/24/2006 03:34:07 AM
The lighting isn't very good. I don't like how the subject is much darker than the other parts of the photo.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 07/23/2006 06:06:40 AM
There's a lot that works with this - the yellow umbrella diffusing the afternoon sun, the relaxed look of the model, the composition (model looking "into" the picture) and the texture of the sand to say but a few. Also great sharpness. Very, very nice.
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 07/21/2006 10:22:55 PM
I think a bit more beach would have made it a better photograph
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 07/21/2006 03:05:37 PM
The perspective on this one is what I like. Nice idea.
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 07/19/2006 08:30:06 PM
Different and nice. On post processing side I need the shadows need to be little milder to highlight the lady. Still a great photo worth 8 points :)
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 07/19/2006 05:25:23 PM
8 :) composed well.
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 07/19/2006 01:36:56 PM
A nice portrait, though I am unsure of the camera position. It might be stronger to have been lower.
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 07/19/2006 10:59:22 AM
nice composition.
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 07/19/2006 07:31:57 AM
I like this photo and how you've composed it. I think it would have worked better if you had crouched down and taken the picture from either below her or just not as far above her. Would have given more persective on the shoreline running back into the distance and gotten more bang for the buck out of the nice position she is sitting in. Nice shot. 6.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 07/19/2006 06:40:32 AM
it looks as though she has no texture to her?
too much neat image maybe?
or maybe my monitor is crap!!!
nice take on the challenge though.
but the water could do with some more color or movement or something.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 07/18/2006 10:58:17 PM
nice composition...light hitting the umbrella is nice
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 07/18/2006 10:00:15 PM
nice jeans
 07/18/2006 09:29:27 PM
Like the yellow parasol.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 07/18/2006 09:05:21 PM
I like the parasol...it puts Susan in a better light.
  Photographer found comment helpful.


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