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Day-to-day HIV/AIDS Pharmacopoeia
Day-to-day HIV/AIDS Pharmacopoeia
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Challenge: Mundane (Advanced Editing I)
Camera: Olympus C-730UZ
Location: Chicago, Illinois
Date: Feb 22, 2004
Aperture: f4.5
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/20
Galleries: Emotive
Date Uploaded: Feb 22, 2004

A representation of the number and kind of drugs an AIDS/HIV+ patient has to take daily in his/her mundane task to stay alive.

Tech: contrast masking, desaturation, equalizing, resizing and framing.

Statistics
Place: 123 out of 169
Avg (all users): 5.1355
Avg (commenters): 5.3333
Avg (participants): 5.0879
Avg (non-participants): 5.2031
Views since voting: 924
Votes: 155
Comments: 11
Favorites: 1 (view)


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03/06/2004 05:45:24 PM
**Critique Club**

Hi Ken -

Positives:
Good take on the challenge. I also like the angle of your shot and the way you filled the frame.

Possible Improvements:
I really think the B&W takes away from the impact of this shot. Your lighting is also a bit harsh. There are a few white spots that are blown out and the shadows in the bottles are distractive. I think a diffuser of some sort, and lighting from a higher angle would have helped.

I hope you found this critique useful. I look forward to seeing your future entries.

Regards,
Chris

 Comments Made During the Challenge
02/29/2004 04:53:47 PM
Nice choice for color, interesting POV.
02/29/2004 05:18:01 AM
The idea of this is quite poignant and the mundaity severe. However, the image accentuates the mundane and does not make it look particulary extraordinary. I think BW was not the way to go and that the various colors of the drugs might have made it look less mundane. But trying to make this particular subject look other than mundane is quite, thankfully, beyond me.
02/28/2004 09:28:36 PM
wow, incredible image
little grainy but strong enough to stand alone without a border!
02/28/2004 09:41:04 AM
Powerful. Well shot. But too much to really focus on.
02/28/2004 08:13:11 AM
Very nice shot. Love the lighting and choice of b/w treatment. However to me this does not say Mundane.
TC
02/23/2004 02:02:30 PM
Scarily mundane for too many. - 7
  Photographer found comment helpful.
02/23/2004 01:36:03 PM
I long for color on this one - I think the contrast the colors would have given would have taken this up a notch.
02/23/2004 11:28:41 AM
The title of this photo gives it a lot of emotional appeal.....I guess taking so many pills daily would become very mundane...not to mention sad, but I look at the positive aspect that they are helping.......nice approach and composition...I also like it in black & white....much more powerful
  Photographer found comment helpful.
02/23/2004 04:51:44 AM
purpose?
02/22/2004 10:37:55 PM
This feels a little noisy and oversharpened to me, I'd like to see this with softer lighting.


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