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Want to add: I REALLY thought that the blower thing was the leading line. guess I have no idea what a leading line is ;P I thought this was a cool idea. i'm dumb.
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Place: 192 out of 294 Avg (all users): 5.0209 Avg (commenters): 5.2222 Avg (participants): 4.9324 Avg (non-participants): 5.0769 Views since voting: 929 Views during voting: 251 Votes: 191 Comments: 11 Favorites: 0
The blower thing was clearly the leading line for me. I guess some people see things and some other people see other things. No way was this shot worth a 1. Some people just go completely over the top with harsh voting.
I like your entry. Can't explain why it didn't do so well. Perhaps the leading line wasn't leading enough ;) I guess people wanted to see a line leading to the central element which is your daughter (this is your daugher, isn't it?). When you look at the shot, what do you see at first? The eyes. I think you should see the line at first which leads to her face and her eyes. Thus a composition with the "blow thing" rolled out and directed straight into the viewers face may have scored better. But this are all assumptions. I don't really know.