From Costa Rica -Apologies for the small image. I don't have photoshop on my laptop - it took hours getting the file size to 150 using iphoto - any adjustments added to the file size and it had to be sharpened so I went to a small image. No time here to do any better. I sure like the image, there are lots of others that needed slight rotations that I can't do here. I'll post others when I get home in 3 weeks.
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Place: 7 out of 145 Avg (all users): 6.5846 Avg (commenters): 7.5833 Avg (participants): 5.7385 Avg (non-participants): 6.8502 Views since voting: 16253 Views during voting: 418 Votes: 272 Comments: 33 Favorites: 1 (view)
Absolutely fantastic picture. It has the atmosphere of a real candid. The minor technical shortcomings mean nothing alongside the plus points; the soft lighting, the poses of the girls, the composition, the subtle colours...
It was one of (I think) two tens I gave in this challenge. I can't believe it wasn't a top three finish.
Thank you for the excellent comments and scores. I’m sorry I didn’t have the time to vote in this challenge.
I later regretted using this title - the song to which it might allude is wrong for the innocence of the girls.
The cut off feet is the biggest dissappointment - gotta take more care - the picture will never happen again. I agree that it needs more light from the left but I would never use a flash fill in this situation, The girls knew I was shooting but I was being as unobtrusive as possible, I had the little camera on my knee while they were watching their teacher be introduced to two of my students (we are working on a community project across the road). The girl on the left is Carolina (pronounced ‘eena), her mother helps cook for us.
I guess I wanted to be a bit like Henri Cartier-Bresson in the neighbourhood with his quiet little Leica rangefinder.
I’m glad some people liked this a lot - I do. There are two other pics from this day that may be technically better and just as engaging that I will post in a month or so when I get home and work on them.
Very cute. Nice colors. I like the light thru her hat. I would have liked to see all of the shoes on the girl on the left, but beautifully made anyways. 9.
Very cute photo and such expression on their faces! I like the basic composition, but would like it more if you had given it more breathing room and not cropped so tight. I would like to see all of their feet and there would be more balance and less visual tension if more space above. In a perfect world it would be nice to have a large reflector get a bit more light on the faces of the two in front, but that is unlikely to have been possible.
This image has almost everything to win it all... I think some fill flash would have made it excellent. The faces are a bit too dark, but overall it is great. 9.
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