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the night before
the night before
thaasje


Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Too Early (Basic Editing III)
Camera: Sony DSC-W5
Location: at home
Date: Dec 3, 2005
Aperture: 2.8
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/60
Galleries: Family, Emotive
Date Uploaded: Dec 4, 2005

 a couple of weeks before christmas, the kids in holland, celebrate "sinterklaas". this means they will get several gifts from this man, who celebrates his birthday.... its very exciting for the kids, this picture is taken the night before. in the morning the kids found the presents.

adjusted color balance, USM, curves

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Sony DSC-S70
 12/13/2005 03:06:01 PM
Looks like a scanned Christmas image from 1969.
Minolta DiMAGE F200
 12/13/2005 01:39:37 PM
The night before Christmas? I think it is a cultural thing to put gifts in shoes (boots) so I'm assuming that is what this is. It's a pretty messy composition. The lower half of the frame is dominated by blurry vague shapes of zero interest which do nothing to lead the viewer's eye to the main subject, the boots. The boots themselves don't make for engaging subject matter being rather drably colored and utilitarian. The toys R us wrap in the background just adds to the visual clutter. This doesn't look like much care was put into creating a visually pleasing image for the viewer.
Nikon D700
Nikon AF-S Nikkor 17-35mm f/2.8D IF-ED
 12/11/2005 11:38:26 AM
the blur objects in front is distracting. keep composition simple and remove anything not helpful to your subject. if front objects are important, use a deeper depth of field to keep sharpness. imo. 5
Nikon D70
Nikon AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor 18-70mm f/3.5-4.5G IF-ED
 12/11/2005 07:51:40 AM
The subject is not so aesthetic, the mass of blur of the foreground does not arrange the situation.
Canon EOS-5D
Canon EF 17-40mm f/4.0 L USM
 12/08/2005 07:59:25 AM
Those bit white things in the front are too distracting, too many things on the photo and hard to find the subject.
Canon EOS-1D Mark III
Canon EF 16-35mm f/2.8 L USM
 12/07/2005 07:03:05 AM
This image is in need of a lot of work to bring it to something worthwhile.
The foreground is a real mess, and needs to be pin sharp or not there at all.
The colour cast (orange) needs to be removed.
The main subject needs to be lit to bring it to the viewers attention.

Olympus E-300 EVOLT
 12/07/2005 03:15:05 AM
I took quite long to figure this out. Are they presents for a birthday party?
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