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Challenge: Low Key VI (Standard Editing)
Collection: Black and White
Lens: Sony 16-50mm f/2.8
Date: Aug 3, 2019
Aperture: 4.0
ISO: 500
Shutter: 1/90
Date Uploaded: Aug 6, 2019

 I hope it's okay to say I'm disappointed. This is the very best a picture of our granddaughter has ever done for me . . . but I had hoped for more. Though the score was never high, I also knew from the discussion thread that this was likely to be a low scoring challenge, so I dared hope. Even now, as I look back at the 10 that beat this, I feel that it should be higher . . . much higher.

I do agree a bit more face would have been good. In retrospect, I think an open book would have been better, too. But we didn't really stage this. She'd been reading in another seat, got up and moved across the aisle and back to this one, sat down, looked at the book a moment and then closed it and sort of slid it aside, and turned and looked out the window. The entire sequence was/is part of what I was trying to convey. Unfortunately, parts of it are "you had to be there".

Statistics
Place: 11 out of 55
Avg (all users): 6.2727
Avg (participants): 6.3929
Avg (non-participants): 6.1481
Views since voting: 392
Views during voting: 133
Votes: 55
Comments: 8
Favorites: 1 (view)

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Canon EOS-6D
Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 L Macro IS USM
 08/21/2019 11:28:14 AM
I agree... it's lovely!

I think the voters wanted a bit more of her face... I know I did. (I didn't vote and just trying to help figure out the unanticipated "low score".)
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Canon Canon 1d x Mark II
Sigma 85mm f/1.4 FG HSM Art
 08/21/2019 02:23:24 AM
I thought it was sooo sweet!
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Canon EOS-5D Mark IV
Canon EF 200mm f/2.8 USM
 08/21/2019 12:46:09 AM
Well, I have to say that I totally agree with you. This image is exquisite, and was the one I loved most alongside Mary Anne’s winning image. They are both similar to me in beauty and perfect use of light and shadows. I am shocked to see it in a very undeserving 11th place. I added it to my favorites during the challenge and will come back to it often as I try to improve my low key photography.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
Fujifilm X-T30
Fujifilm XF 18-55mm f/2.8-4 OIS
 08/20/2019 08:56:46 PM
Beautiful light contours and charming kid
bump
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Sony DSLR-A550
Sony DT 18-70mm f/3.5-5.6 Aspherical ED
 08/20/2019 08:04:05 PM
great there is still detail in the shadows LK is about the light and how it is used it is about managing the highlight and shadow 7
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Sony Alpha a1 II
Sony FE 200-600mm f/5.6-6.3 G OSS
 08/20/2019 04:56:59 PM
very nice
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Nikon D500
Sigma 18-250mm f/3.5-6.3 DC OS HSM
 08/20/2019 10:41:48 AM
Ah yeah, this is what low key is all about. Super
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Canon EOS-5D Mark IV
Canon EF 200mm f/2.8 USM
 08/19/2019 03:51:17 PM
This is one of the images in this challenge that takes my breath away. I have a personal rule that I don't vote in challenges I've entered (even tho my score is deservingly sucking), but this is one of two that I've seen that both deserve votes of 20 on a 1 to 10 scale! I hope you both win the blue and red ribbons! I will refer back to this image often as I try to get better at low key photography. It's absolutely perfect!
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