My wife is a kindergarten teacher. This is her class.
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Edit: No children were destroyed to create this picture. However, the pre-shoot field trip to Starbucks paid off. ;-) (just kidding!)
Thank you everyone for all the positive comments. There were some really great entries in the challenge. Special thanks to my wife, the greatest kindergarten teacher in the world, and her awesome students.
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Love the shot. How did you manage to keep the kids from knocking over your camera setup. My wife is a 1st - 4th grade teacher. I have seen this sort of classroom myself.
You should send this to your local or national teachers union. I am sure they could find a good use for it.
Great shot, My wife also teaches Kindergarten - your wife/model appears so calm in great juxtaposition with the chaos surrounding her this shot should be on the cover of the American Federation of Teachers magazine.
First Impression - the most important one: Wow .. fantastic .. a true environmental portrait ...
Composition: This is one time wehre centred plays directly into the picture ... with your wifes eyes being on the thirds line this really is awesome. I love that you did not ask the kids to all sit still and play nice for the camera as this would have removed the 'environment' from the shot.
Subject: Challenge met, exceeded and extremely well.
Technical (Colour and light): The crispness of the colours is great .. the lighting works so as not to overtake the shot. I would give a copy to your wife for her to put on the classroom wall and they can see how good they look.
To grow its vote?: This is so subjective .. I did not vote this whole challenge as too busy writing papers for work .. but really this epitomises I think what was being sought ...
Summary: Awesome ... well shot, well composed and well .. fantastic score. Keep it up!!!
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This is great!! Exactly what I wanted to do in my portrait, but didn't have time to get permission from any of the kids parents. I'm glad somebody pulled it off and well too! 9
What a great idea and so perfectly executed. Your teacher is great (at staying still) and her expression. The centered subject works well. Just the right amount of movement from the kids. Colours and lighting great, Good balance of portrait and environment.
The motion blur on the children in this shot really tells the story!! I like that the teacher is looking at the camera and that you've included plenty of the "environment" in this shot!
This is very well done and perfect for the Challenge as opposed to many other images that I've seen thus far. I like the pose, execution and the motion blur speaks volumes. Good Luck!
Pretty cool but I think you should have gone all the way and really just had moving blurs around her, no faces to the kids at all. Good idea and pretty well executed.
Awsome interpretation here! a calm head among all the noise, very comfortable in her environment. Definitely displays the atmosphere of a kindergarten classroom. Very nicely done.
This is a terrific example of what an enviranmental portrait should be. My only complaint is that the teacher is a bit too centered. Wonderful. My first 9 in the challenge!
whew, one of the few here which rates top score. A jewel in a pile of...9. OK, I'm back. This is my blue ribbon shot by a Looooooong stretch. I even like it way better than mine (which isn't going to ribbon, but cross fingers for a Top 10). I wonder if this is Cindi, but have no real reason to think it is other than she was really proud of her shot. The only 10 in the challenge.
Satisfies the challenge perfectly... even satisfies the law of thirds, as there is more going on in the right than on the left. This photo belongs in a publication that describes the challenges a teacher faces daily... Great job!
Now this is very very cool. the concept of her still and calm in the middle of mayhem is the perfect environmental portrait! I am bothered by some of the motion work. It looks spontaneous but then some it doesn't so I suspect it was done PP. That doesn't detract from the image but it does just a tad on the vote. If it's all in-camera then I'm happy to add another point to my 7
Very nice portrait. The exposure is perfect for the environment aspect of this shot. The motion of the kids really emphasizes the subject very nicely. Well done! 10
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