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they always play with the box instead
they always play with the box instead
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Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Kids With Toys (Advanced Editing VII)
Collection: Good Stuff
Camera: Canon EOS-40D
Lens: Sigma 30mm f/1.4 EX DC HSM for Canon
Location: Campbell Hall, NY
Date: Dec 25, 2010
Aperture: 1.4
ISO: 500
Shutter: 30
Galleries: Black and White, Children
Date Uploaded: Dec 26, 2010

 calculations to b/w, multiple on the red and green challenges. bump slightly with curves, slight crop to remove his wrist.

Statistics
Place: 22 out of 51
Avg (all users): 5.6424
Avg (commenters): 6.2857
Avg (participants): 5.7105
Avg (non-participants): 5.6195
Views since voting: 926
Views during voting: 326
Votes: 151
Comments: 13
Favorites: 1 (view)

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 02/27/2017 09:02:16 AM
Reminds me of my girls when they were young. They made a play house out of boxes our furniture came in the middle of our den. I love the kids expressions.
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 01/09/2011 12:33:08 PM
Critique Club Comment:

The expressions on the kids' faces are priceless, but the eye has to hunt for them when you first look at the shot because the majority of the image is taken up with the less-interesting details of the box surface and the wall/door/floor. I can see how this can be taken as the children playing a "hiding" game, but, for me, the faces of the children should be more prominent.

Maybe a shot directly down into the box, or a different angle altogether (such as the kids peering over the edge of the box) would have made this more interesting.

I like the color conversion a lot - although some, who prefer less contrasting black and white images, would prefer less contrast so that the girl's head does not appear to be floating by itself.
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 01/09/2011 01:27:24 AM
O, the joy of big boxes. And hiding in the bottom of the frame. Excellent tones and composition, simply scrummy.
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 01/03/2011 06:32:17 PM
Boxes are loads of fun, I'm surprised to see them inside the outside the box toy!

Beautiful faces, full of joy.

Message edited by author 2011-01-03 23:33:22.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
01/02/2011 05:15:28 AM
good concept, but the composition bugs me a bit with the subjects being so far low in the photograph, would have liked to have seen more of them.
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 12/30/2010 06:40:16 PM
So true! Cute shot.
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 12/29/2010 06:36:24 PM
Ain't it the truth. And would you have it any other way?
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 12/29/2010 11:15:31 AM
SO true!
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 12/29/2010 09:28:16 AM
like the idea, i think it would have been better had the box filled the whole frame
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 12/29/2010 08:39:00 AM
... plus 1 point for dimple. :-)
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 12/28/2010 11:33:03 AM
My favorite "alternative" image. Just awesome! Big bold planes broken up with fragments of exuberant living.
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 12/27/2010 11:58:13 AM
We have all done it!

The top left edge is distracting and maybe would habe been better cropped out.
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 12/27/2010 06:28:24 AM
I like the helter skelter feel. You just can't beat a kid in a box. ha ha ha 6
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