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At last! I've caught a ride!
At last! I've caught a ride!
kposey


Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Travel (Classic Editing)
Camera: Sony DSC-P50
Location: Highgway TX 53 near Rosebud, Texas
Date: Dec 27, 2002
Aperture: F9.0
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/500
Date Uploaded: Dec 27, 2002

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Canon EOS-60D
Tamron SP 24-70mm F/2.8 Di VC USD for Nikon
 01/06/2003 09:10:16 PM
Critique Club Critique
(1) COMPOSITION (CONTENT) – Everything is very centered – the hitchhiker and the horizon. Your title implies a car has stopped, but the photo does not. Not clear if he is walking or hitchhiking (despite the sign). I’d have liked to see him at far right, with a car stopped in the distance at far left (to fit your title). This would also show more road surface, giving a perspective of depth and distance.
(2) BACKGROUND – good. See comments on composition. Horizon should probably not be so centered, even if you changed composition as suggested.
(3) CAMERA WORK ,TECHNICAL – focus & DOF look good.
(4) DIGITAL PROCESSING ,TECHNICAL – no recommendations. Personally, I don’t worry about the jpeg artifacts as one comment did.
(5) MY OPINION ON THE PHOTO – A good idea,meets challenge, but an average “snapshot” – based entirely on the composition.

Jim msp
 Comments Made During the Challenge
01/05/2003 08:25:27 PM
A fairly dull shot. The subject is dead centre in the frame which doesn't work for me, and the background doesn't add much to the shot.
I would have cropped a lot tighter into the hitch-hiker, probably in portrait format, keeping him to the right of the frame.
Canon EOS-550D Rebel T2i
Sigma 18-200mm f/3.5-6.3 DC OS for Canon
 01/05/2003 01:23:23 AM
Fun!
Canon PowerShot S3 IS
Canon 12x IS USM (S3 IS built-in Lens) -- 36-432mm (35mm EQ)
 01/04/2003 08:12:49 PM
Hope it's not with some wacko who can't spell...
Canon PowerShot A40
 01/03/2003 07:21:00 PM
where exactly is waco
Canon EOS-40D
Canon EF 70-200mm f/4.0 L USM
 01/01/2003 05:59:39 PM
Cool shot....
Fujifilm X100VI
 12/30/2002 05:30:29 PM
Try not to center your subjects in the frame. Include more of the road or make a tighter crop with less air.
Save it at a higher quality level, the jpeg artifacts ruin this image. :-(
Canon EOS-40D
Canon EF-S 17-85mm f/4-5.6 IS USM
 12/30/2002 06:34:57 AM
Really great idea! But unfortunately the bearing of your model looks (IMHO!) not very nice. When a person is walking try to shoot exactly in the moment, when both legs are on the earth. Otherwise they look mostly like a stork ;-). The use of the rule of thirds probably would have been helpful too.
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