Challenge:From Above (Classic Editing) Camera:Kodak DX3900 Location: The Foyer under the stairway. Date: Mar 16, 2003 Aperture: F 3.0 ISO: 100 Shutter: 1/8 Galleries:Humorous Date Uploaded: Mar 16, 2003
This was the hardest challenge photo I've taken. I set up the camera on the landing on the stairs. Then I would set the timer, run down the stairs, pick up the balls and start juggling. It was impossible to get it just right. When I neared collapse and was sweating like a pig, I finally gave up and used this one.
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Good try with this one! It shows you are trying to be creative.
The composition is what works best in this photo. The horizontal cropping works really well and the cropping is just right. The outfit, colors and expression are excellent too. Unfortunately, there's just too much blur. It could have been solved with a faster shutter speed. Raising the shutter speed would have been a tough compromise because we would have lost some of the interesting blur effect in the balls and arms, loosing at the same time the the dynamic energy from them. But it seems it would have been better with a face in focus and sharp in order to really connect with the juggler.
The photo is on par with the challenge's theme. The view from above really adds to the composition.
In short: excellent compostion, nice colors, excellent cropping, nice expresion. Unfortunately, the overload of blur is simply too distracting to appreciate the photo. 4
Keept up the good work!
Excellent viewpoint and good capture of motion though I'd like to see his face and body sharp and only the arms and objects moving.
Nice crop and great bright colours.
7, Kavey
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