I was at the PA State Farm Show over the weekend, and managed to snag this shot. I thought it was really neat! Might be too OOF however.
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IMG_2828.CR2
Camera Model
Canon EOS 20D
Shooting Date/Time
01/14/06 13:59:26
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Manual Exposure
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1/125
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Partial Metering
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800
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28.0 - 135.0mm
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53.0mm
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3504x2336
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RAW
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Off
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Auto
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One-Shot AF
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Drive Mode
Continuous shooting
Owner's Name
Jeremy Lelii
Camera Body No.
1621002888
Statistics
Place: 84 out of 109 Avg (all users): 5.0421 Avg (commenters): 5.0526 Avg (participants): 4.0923 Avg (non-participants): 5.3571 Views since voting: 1011 Views during voting: 461 Votes: 261 Comments: 23 Favorites: 0
First Impression - the most important one: Good angle/perspective on this shot and I like the B&W tones.
Composition: Composition is a good element in this photo. I like the lines that are created by the sheep and I especially like how only one sheep has his head to the camera. And it looks like he's staring right at you!
Subject: I like the subject for this shot, though I'm sure you probably took a few hits for it not being a person, as was stated in the challenge description. These animals make a neat study in texture, especially the texture of the one up front as compared to those farther back.
Technical (Colour, focus, and light): Again, I like the B&W tones in this photo...I think they work well here. The focus does seem to be a tad bit off. The interesting textures would be picked up more with a sharper focus. The lighting enhances the feel of this photo as well. The interplay of shadow and light, between the sheep and the spaces between them, comes off very well due to the lighting.
To grow its vote?: There are two things which likely affected voting on this photo. The first being that the challenge description specifically stated people....nuff said on that. My second guess would be that the description also mentioned using shallow DOF to create the Singled Out effect. In this photo the one sheep seems Singled Out due to the fact that it's the only one looking at you.
Summary: A very nice photo that I enjoyed! There were a couple of aspects that led to it not fitting certain challenge description areas, but it also has many good things going for it!
This is a nice image. It seems to me that the subject is isolated less due to minimal DOF and more by the fact that the viewer can't see the faces of the other sheep. This does isolate the subject from a crowd and I can see that minimal DOF was used but all the sheep could have been in focus and the main subject would still be isolated. I don't know which way to go on this because it doesn't seem like minimal DOF was the creative technique behind the photo. I do like the photo (although I feel like the main sheep's face could be a bit sharper). I'll give you the benefit of the doubt.
The cow is not singled out by means of shallow DOF, but only because it raised its head, so I don't think that this shot fits into the contest very well. Otherwise a nice shot.
Aside from the fact that you were supposed to single "a person" out, the photo could use a boost in contrast. In b&w photography...your blacks should be black and your whites should be white. Compositionally, this is a good photo. I like the different perspective given by the angle.
Interesting shot...a little soft, it seems, but that could be my monitor (or my eyes). I would like to see a bit more contrast, though...the tonal range is kinda close. As far as subject, framing, composition, and the slant, I like it all.
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