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Spin of TERROR!
Spin of TERROR!
tpbremer


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Challenge: Spinning (Basic Editing)
Camera: Canon PowerShot G6
Location: backyard, Illinois
Date: Mar 27, 2007
Aperture: f/8
ISO: 50
Shutter: 1/60
Date Uploaded: Mar 27, 2007

 I tried to shoot this a few times. By the time I got to this shot, my model was worn out, and pretty sick of spinning, but it ended up the best composition. I attached my camera to a belt and tightened around my stomach.

For some reason I lost brightness and color when I saved for web in Photoshop--opening it back in PS gave me the color I wanted. Anyone know what gives?

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 04/04/2007 04:52:22 AM
BTW, she wasn't really THAT scared! She happens to be more dramatic than anything else, I think she was more annoyed than scared that I kept spinning her around--this expression ended up being the best result.
 Comments Made During the Challenge
04/03/2007 10:05:56 AM
I hope the poor girl wasn't as terrified as she looks! Good composition
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 04/02/2007 06:30:53 PM
cool photo, i like how you captured the fear in the little girl's face!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 04/02/2007 03:49:07 PM
She looks really scared!!!!!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 04/02/2007 07:26:42 AM
Cute.
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 04/01/2007 03:56:31 PM
Love that expression, which you capitalized on with that title. I also like the composition, with the strong hand counterbalancing her face.

My Papa's Waltz
by Theodore Roethke

The whiskey on your breath
Could make a small boy dizzy;
But I hung on like death:
Such waltzing was not easy.

We romped until the pans
Slid from the kitchen shelf;
My mother's countenance
Could not unfrown itself.

The hand that held my wrist
Was battered on one knuckle;
At every step you missed
My right ear scraped a buckle.

You beat time on my head
With a palm caked hard by dirt,
Then waltzed me off to bed
Still clinging to your shirt.


10
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 04/01/2007 12:44:06 PM
I don't know what to think of this photo. It is interesting mainly because the fear on the girl's face is real. Therefore this seems cruel and exploitative. Good clarity, considering the spinning. The sky is a bit washed out, but technical aspects take a backseat to subject matter in this photo, I'd say. Fits the theme. Hurts that so many photos in this challenge used the same idea.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 04/01/2007 06:13:47 AM
Nothing too exquisite, and it seems like a photo that I WILL NOT put up on a wall.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 03/31/2007 06:41:35 PM
Mean mean mean. Poor girl.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 03/30/2007 04:43:28 PM
Great idea, well executed and well-held! :)
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 03/30/2007 10:15:03 AM
great expression, made me laugh.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 03/30/2007 04:36:11 AM
The look on her face is incredible. I hope you bought her an ice cream afterwords!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 03/29/2007 10:00:29 PM
JIKES! but a great shot. get the child a nice reward at the very least for he willingness to do this - 9
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 03/29/2007 08:32:49 PM
great face!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 03/29/2007 06:00:22 PM
very cool
 03/28/2007 03:08:49 PM
She looks scared as hell! Makes me laugh a bit, is that wrong? Only this that bothers me is that her arm is cut off. But you probably had one chance before she ran into the house in terror! Nice idea.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 03/28/2007 09:16:24 AM
please...make...it...stop!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 03/28/2007 09:11:02 AM
Let go!!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 03/28/2007 06:23:27 AM
the look of terror in that girls eyes is pricless
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 03/28/2007 05:51:33 AM
I love the look on her face.

I'm reminded of that photographer who took candy away from toddlers to get pics of them crying...what was her name? I can't remember it right now...
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 03/28/2007 02:09:32 AM
YES !... We all went through this... great idea and presentation.... the expression in the little girl's face reveal her feeling..
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 03/27/2007 08:36:48 PM
lol - bad parent. Good grip though and very focused.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 03/27/2007 08:12:11 PM
hehe, that's funny...did you attach the camera to your waist while you took the shot, or how did you do it?
  Photographer found comment helpful.


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