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Challenge: End (Basic Editing)
Collection: 2009 Challenges
Camera: Canon EOS-40D
Lens: Canon EF 50mm f/1.4 USM
Location: Williamsburg, VA
Date: Feb 1, 2009
Aperture: f16
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/30
Galleries: Children
Date Uploaded: Feb 3, 2009

 My son said "it's too bad that Meg hasn't done hang-gliding yet, you could get a picture of her crashing." That led to this idea.

I wanted to get the feeling of a beautiful day, having come to a crashing end. I had hoped that the kite would be more obviously a kite, but it stuck sideways. I'm hoping the red tail still will draw people's attention and that they'll figure it out.

I played with levels and saturation and in elements to warm it up a bit (it was way too blue from the polarizer to begin with)

[Feb. 4th, 2009 03:23:37 PM]

No kites were harmed in the process of making this picture!

Statistics
Place: 35 out of 146
Avg (all users): 5.5000
Avg (commenters): 6.4000
Avg (participants): 5.1731
Avg (non-participants): 5.6288
Views since voting: 1143
Views during voting: 276
Votes: 184
Comments: 9
Favorites: 0

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AuthorThread
 09/06/2009 10:24:01 AM
Very nice picture!!

Good idea, light and composition!!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 02/11/2009 12:45:35 PM
for what its worth, I prefer this one. the tree is more ominous, seems larger, the boy already looks defeated (in the other he still has a chance). One thing to remember is often the absence of color forces the eye to look at the shapes - emotion comes out more powerfully is there is not a central color to work off of (as in this image, the color is inconsequential to its meaning).

If I was going to shoot this image again, I would get closer to the boys side, at a lower angle, to put the tree in an even more overwhelming position.

when working in black and white, it is often easier to control the shades of gray the colors will turn out to be by working in your channels palette rather than layers - do a layer adjustment on each individual channel while viewing that channel only. In the case of this image, I manipulated the reds to turn out white and darkened the blues so the sky would be more ominous and the string and the kite tail would show up lighter and more visible (I popped it into photoshop quickly).

I liked this image for the challenge because it was a metaphorical end - you didn't beat me over the head with a literal end. Alas, I didn't vote, but probably would have gotten at least a 7...
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 02/10/2009 07:42:44 PM
A clear message, nicely photographed, though I get your point about the kite and agree a more visible kite might have strengthened the impact. Anyhow, one of my challenge faves. I'm surprised it didn't make the top 10.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 Comments Made During the Challenge
02/09/2009 06:01:10 AM
Awh poor little boy. This has happened to us all though. I feel his pain.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 02/08/2009 05:54:32 AM
Climb I say climb...nice photo
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 02/05/2009 07:37:03 PM
Nice shot. Did the kite survive?
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 02/04/2009 03:01:22 PM
I hate it when that happens...
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 02/04/2009 08:59:17 AM
I like this. Poor guy.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 02/04/2009 03:14:19 AM
Definitely the end. Good job.
  Photographer found comment helpful.


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