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Photographer's Comments |
Challenge: Candid IV (Advanced Editing V)
Collection: Challenge Entries
Camera: Pentax K100D
Lens: Pentax DA 50-200 ED
Location: Powell Street Cable Car Turnaround, San Francisco
Date: Jun 6, 2007
Aperture: f/4.5
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/180
Galleries: Snapshot, Candid
Date Uploaded: Jun 10, 2007
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The clown was not performing at the time, but just waiting for a tourist to show up so he could put on his fake smile while they posed with him, snapped a picture, and tipped him a dollar. I could just see how tired and bored he was with the whole thing.
Not much processing ... crop, levels, contrast, brightness, lightness, saturation, USM, resize, USM, border, S4W. Yeah, his right shoulder is a bit hot, his face is in shadow, and I don't like the hot spots and harsh shadows on his nose, but for candids I think the expression and the moment is more important than technical perfection. Hope this does well with the voters.
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Post-challenge: Well, I thought this was going to do much better. I think the voters spent more time in this challenge looking at the technicals, then at the expressions ... not just on my image, but on most of them in the challenge.
Re: the saturation comments ... i actually desaturated this guy on purpose, because I thought the muted towns accentuated his expression and the feeling I got from this shot better than the oversaturated clown-feel that many seemed to want.
fwiw -- here is the original:
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06/17/2007 05:40:40 PM |
| he looks a bit washed out in the sunlight. Maybe a play a little with the color & light balance? |
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06/14/2007 11:03:57 AM |
| I think the sun is a little too bright and washes out the colors.. |
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06/14/2007 09:50:42 AM |
| wish the highlights were toned down a bit ... his blown shoulders hurt this one ... |
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06/14/2007 07:13:36 AM |
| good composition and I like the bright colors |
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06/13/2007 08:00:20 AM |
| Must confess to having a real aversion to clowns!!! Good bokeh although the colours feel a little flat. nice candid though |
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06/11/2007 07:29:18 PM |
| I like the subject and the idea, maybe a little blown out in areas but overall nice image. |
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06/11/2007 07:02:00 PM |
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06/11/2007 07:40:44 AM |
| would be nice with a bit more saturation/contrast to emphasize the clown look! |
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06/11/2007 06:15:08 AM |
| Nice candid shot, but I feel that it could have scored better with some more processing to reduce the haze cast over the image. |
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06/11/2007 01:36:59 AM |
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