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Challenge: Childhood Without Children II (Basic Editing)
Camera: Canon EOS-400D Rebel XTi
Lens: Tamron SP AF 28-75mm f/2.8 XR Di for Canon
Location: Santee, Ca
Date: Jan 22, 2008
Aperture: F 4.5
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/320
Galleries: Children
Date Uploaded: Jan 22, 2008

Shot in RAW, adjusted brightness, contrast,USM, added sepia tone, slight blur add border and save for the web.

Statistics
Place: 70 out of 141
Avg (all users): 5.1266
Avg (commenters): 5.5789
Avg (participants): 4.9500
Avg (non-participants): 5.1864
Views since voting: 752
Views during voting: 372
Votes: 237
Comments: 19
Favorites: 0


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 Comments Made During the Challenge
01/29/2008 01:21:47 PM
I like the âsoftâ appearance and believe your choice of sepia tone was appropriate to come together with it.
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01/29/2008 01:08:43 AM
I feel the quasi old look of the picture does not fit in at all with the plastic playground material. You might have tried a washed 70s kind of toning, but not sepia
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01/28/2008 03:33:33 PM
Your processing works well with this picture. The tone and softness goes well together. Nice job!
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01/28/2008 10:06:42 AM
the photo comes across very flat, with little contrast and no central point of interest. the trees in the background and the equipment are all tangled up together visually.
01/27/2008 09:03:52 AM
Somehow I have trouble picturing the bright colored plastic playsets in sepia tones.
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01/26/2008 07:49:16 AM
Cool pic. The only problem with it, and you can't do anything about it nowadays, is that this is a totally modern playset.
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01/25/2008 02:10:17 PM
The sepia tones are great here. Gives it an old fashion look -- except for the modern play structure :-) Great shot!
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01/25/2008 02:44:40 AM
Image is very central across the middle of the picture. leads the eye across the picture but not into it. Not sure about the "old photo" effect with this. he subject is too new for making it look like toys from the past
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01/24/2008 03:10:43 PM
A little too soft and glowy...
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01/24/2008 11:09:54 AM
I would have preferred color and maybe zooming in on one or two specific things to make it more interesting. There's definitely a lot to work with.
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01/24/2008 06:45:23 AM
good choice of b/w
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01/24/2008 03:45:11 AM
Nice old fashioned look fits the title well. Not a particularly exciting viewpoint though, a ground position pointing up from the base of the climbing frame, wide angle, would have eliminated the trees just leaving you with strong contrasting structure against the sky
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01/24/2008 01:23:58 AM
Don't get the lack of color.
01/23/2008 03:53:32 PM
the sepia (?) tone goes well with the theme of reminiscence
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01/23/2008 12:46:54 PM
Love the antique-misty focus as it does make it seem like a memory. Nice spin to a challenge that holds so many playground shots!
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01/23/2008 10:16:53 AM
I like the dreamy almost rose-tinted look you've given this in post-processing. I'd prorbably have framed/cropped this more loosely so you can see more of the playground
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01/23/2008 04:36:48 AM
This is good... well photographed, but my eye goes everywhere in it searching for the subject. There doesn't appear to be a clear one... and the slide takes my eye out the side instead of drawing me in.

What's here is well done, though it doesn't say 'childhood' to me... Perhaps 'empty', or 'lonely'.
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01/23/2008 02:06:08 AM
Ooh... I love the lighting and dreamy quality. Great take on a rather ordinary playground.
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01/22/2008 08:14:52 PM
Nice processing
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