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Lake Skating
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Challenge: Bokeh (Advanced Editing IV)
Camera: Sony DSC-F828
Location: Minnesota
Date: Jan 6, 2005
Galleries: Family, Action
Date Uploaded: Jan 6, 2005

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Statistics
Place: 215 out of 241
Avg (all users): 4.5605
Avg (commenters): 3.6000
Avg (participants): 4.4872
Avg (non-participants): 4.6415
Views since voting: 766
Views during voting: 333
Votes: 223
Comments: 5
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Canon EOS-1D X
Canon EF 300mm f/2.8 L IS USM
 01/16/2005 05:09:55 AM
while i appreciate your effort here, i think that it is falling a bit short. for bokeh to work, it has to compliment and enhance the subject. here, the skater is the dominant subject, and it is oof. the foreground elements are just that, even though they are what is in focus. with some judicious cropping, you actually could have pulled a strong entry out of this image (ie, if you had zeroed in on the set of leaves on the right hand side). hope this helps.
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Canon EOS-350D Rebel XT
Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6
 01/13/2005 08:48:55 AM
I don't feel that the brokeh enhanced this shot I feel that the person should have been the in focus object. Or that it should have been a closer crop of just the right side creating a tall photo with brokeh snow as the background completely leaving the person out.
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Canon EOS-20D
Canon EF-S 17-85mm f/4-5.6 IS USM
 01/11/2005 11:05:38 AM
To me this is a dull picture that hardly meets the criteria of this challenge (sorry to say). "take a photograph whose subject is enhanced by the bokeh of the background." OK, so we have a background that is out of focus, I am not sure though what subject in the foreground it is supposed to enhance. (3)
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Canon EOS-5D Mark II
Canon EF 28-105mm f/3.5-4.5 II USM
 01/11/2005 10:04:45 AM
i like the hint of what's happening in the back
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 01/10/2005 02:20:45 PM
The short definition of Bokeh from KenRockwell.com, which I am using for voting on this challenge: "Bokeh describes the rendition of out-of-focus points of light." Check. Is the subject enhanced by the bokeh of the background? I think this photo would have worked better the other way around, with the human in focus. Should also make use of the full 640 pixels allowed on the long side- it would have helped your score a bit.
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