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Challenge: Leading Lines III (Basic Editing III)
Camera: Canon EOS-300D Rebel
Lens: Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II
Location: Selby Park, Worthington, OH
Date: Sep 15, 2006
Aperture: 5.7
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/125
Galleries: Action, Children
Date Uploaded: Sep 15, 2006

 Was hoping for something more dramatic for this challenge. Playing at the playground I took a couple of these shots of Rowan climbing up this ladder thingee. Nothing amazing but I really like this shot. I want to try and emulate some of the success that metatate has had with pictures of his daughter. Hoepfully this will be the first of more to come.

Post process - levels, desat yellows and greens, saturated the rest, lightened, curves, selective color adjustments, increased canvas size for border and stroked, USM, resize for web. No cropping or rotating - I am getting better at envisoning my end product I guess.

Post Challenge - My decision to do the selective desat was primarily because of how much diustracting elements there were int he background between colors and stuff. Looking back at it I relaize that slightly reducing the background colors would have possibly had a better effect. Staright black and white didnt work.

Statistics
Place: 94 out of 294
Avg (all users): 5.5469
Avg (commenters): 5.8571
Avg (participants): 5.6364
Avg (non-participants): 5.4870
Views since voting: 1298
Views during voting: 268
Votes: 192
Comments: 11
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Canon EOS-D60
Canon EF 28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM
 10/05/2006 10:15:31 AM
Trading post...
Nice lines! I don't really care for the selective desat. I didn't vote in this challenge but probably would have gone 5 or 6. While the lines intially lead you up to your daughter, the red after that pulls you to the side which seems to have some kind of weird tilt to it.
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Olympus OM-D E-M1 Mark III
Canon EF 24-105mm f/4.0 L IS
 10/03/2006 06:49:40 PM
Rowan this time! Not sure about the desat, but reading your explanation, I can understand why you did it. I don't mind "busy" when it serves a purpose, and it doesn't bother me here at all. In fact it serves as kind of a neat contrast - all the busy hard lines and and metal and plastic edges comtrasted with a lovely little girl and her concentration.
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Panasonic Lumix DMC-LX5
Canon EF 24-105mm f/4.0 L IS
 09/28/2006 11:46:24 PM
I see what you were going with on the selective desat, but I'm not sure it works. This is coming from a guy who likes selective desat (not everybody on the site does). A good example is the group of bars on the upper right. They don't help and the desat actually makes them worse.

I like what you were going for, but probably the setting was just too jumbled (which you sensed) for a great leading lines shot. The little man is quite cute though. I love overalls.
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Canon EOS-5D
Canon EF 50mm f/1.4 USM
 09/28/2006 07:22:44 PM
Glad not so many people agreed with me and that you got a decent score ;-)
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
Nikon D80
Nikon AF-S DX NIKKOR 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6G ED VR II
 09/26/2006 11:21:47 PM
Good use of color.
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Canon EOS-350D Rebel XT
Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8 L IS USM
 09/24/2006 05:57:21 PM
Awesome use of lines.
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Canon EOS-5D Mark II
Sigma 150mm f/2.8 EX APO Macro EX DG HSM for Canon
 09/22/2006 03:10:53 PM
great shot, love the red
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Canon EOS-5D
Canon EF 17-40mm f/4.0 L USM
 09/21/2006 03:08:38 PM
The red color and the subject made the shoot. Nice catch.
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Canon EOS-40D
Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II
 09/21/2006 11:51:36 AM
good composition. I'd love to see this as a black/white.
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Nikon D70s
Nikon AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor 18-70mm f/3.5-4.5G IF-ED
 09/20/2006 12:10:13 PM
I wonder if this is basic editing?
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Canon EOS-5D
Canon EF 50mm f/1.4 USM
 09/20/2006 10:29:31 AM
The composition is very good and so is the subject. The desat effect cheapens the image and in playing to the gallery I think that you have lost much of beauty in it. I would have chosen black and white or duotone to present this. The frame works well.
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