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Calm Before the Storm
Calm Before the Storm
lindsay


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Challenge: Silence IV (Basic Editing I)
Camera: Nikon Coolpix 800
Location: Elementary School, Southern California
Date: Feb 28, 2004
Aperture: 7.7
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/189 s
Galleries: Urban, Landscape
Date Uploaded: Feb 28, 2004

 This is my first submission.. so here goes.

I took this picture at 7:15 am at the school where I work. I had to hurry to get it, as the children are allowed onto the schoolgrounds at about 7:20 am, and of course they go directly to the playground (completely destroying the silence, but giving it a new charm). As I said in my bio, I'm really nothing more than a point-and-shoot kind of photographer.. I was just lucky to have such a perfectly placed cloud, and the wet ground. (We live in the desert, so rain is hard to come by.)

Anyway.. I just cropped it a little. I wish that I'd had a basketball in the foreground, just sitting there alone. I don't know how good it is as far as photography goes, but I like the picture anyway.

Statistics
Place: 190 out of 312
Avg (all users): 4.7692
Avg (commenters): 4.1667
Avg (participants): 4.7917
Avg (non-participants): 4.7480
Views since voting: 1265
Votes: 247
Comments: 8
Favorites: 1 (view)

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 04/13/2004 09:27:54 PM
It was a great day, you will love the great clouds and sunsets. As this picture goes I like the reflections in the water, I also like the blueness of the sky's. This picture definately has a feeling of calm.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
03/07/2004 12:41:49 PM
I have voted this image a 4 because it doesn't have a hook to pull me in - either visually or emotionally. I understand the idea - an empty playing court which is silent now but will soon be heaving with noise and movement. So the idea itself works well.
However the image lacks visual appeal. There isn't really a focal point. Composition seems random (why did you choose to take it from that exact spot? what would it have looked like taken from other spots? what about getting lower to the ground? why did you position the pole/basket things where you did within the frame?) The background of kiddy play structure and mundane housing estate doesn't add anything positive. I'd say that you have definitely got the right idea in terms of meeting the challenge theme but that this entry doesn't manage to convey that theme whilst still offering an image that holds appeal in its own right. A question that may or may not be useful to you is this: Would this image be worth taking/ keeping/ sharing outside of this challenge? Would it mean anything/ hold any appeal?
Please feel free to completely ignore all/ any of my comments, I'm just stating my ideas, nothing more.
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 03/07/2004 07:52:03 AM
would have liked the bottom cropped off more
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 03/05/2004 12:48:02 AM
the houses in the background make an uninteresting backdrop.... a tighter crop on the playground and first two nets may have made a more interesting composition
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 03/04/2004 08:39:01 PM
deserted ..... and silent. NICE
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 03/04/2004 10:28:50 AM
This is a cool photograph but it would have been better to sitck the to "Calm Before the Storm" title by including a heavy cloud cover or something. It looks more like the calm after the storm.
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 03/04/2004 12:41:14 AM
looks more like calm AFTER the storm
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 03/03/2004 10:37:58 AM
Before or After the storm?
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