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Challenge: High Contrast II (Basic Editing III)
Camera: Canon EOS-350D Rebel XT
Lens: Canon EF 75-300mm f/4-5.6 II
Location: Lake Havasu City, Ca
Date: Oct 1, 2006
Aperture: 4.0
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/1000
Galleries: Emotive, Action
Date Uploaded: Oct 3, 2006

 Tony wakeboarding on the Colorado River this weekend.

Statistics
Place: 84 out of 396
Avg (all users): 5.8667
Avg (commenters): 6.6667
Avg (participants): 5.7683
Avg (non-participants): 5.9490
Views since voting: 930
Views during voting: 238
Votes: 180
Comments: 5
Favorites: 0

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Canon PowerShot SX60 HS
 10/17/2006 02:00:06 PM
Greetings from the Critique Club

Very good stop-action shot of Tony here. And as a bonus, you get a comment from one of the best photographers at DPC: e301

If you have the time, you might want to wander through his portfolio and also read a few of his comments to other photographers on the site.

Anyhow, all this is a hard act to follow, but I'll try. My first impression of this image was that it is quite busy. I don't know Lake Havasu, but I wonder, since it's big enough for a speedboat to pull Tony, then maybe another angle would have given you more surfer and less intrusive background.

Still, you have an image you can be proud of and you scored quite well in this Challenge.

Keep up the good work.

SFAlice
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Canon EOS-5D Mark II
Canon EF 24-105mm f/4.0 L IS
 10/11/2006 05:37:10 PM
Hard to imagine such a great capture that fits the challenge theme as well as yours finishing so low in voting. My vote is the lonely '10'
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
10/08/2006 04:54:42 PM
High Contrast often works for action shots, making as it does the form of the situation stand above the simple emotion. I wonder, however, if the curve of thrown-up water isn't more important to this image than the actual figure - and it's that curve that you've chosen to discard in favour of a fairly ordinary body-shape. Good stop action, but perhaps not the most visually arresting moment.
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 10/04/2006 10:37:58 PM
great dispay of contrast!
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Nikon D800
Nikon AF-S NIKKOR 24-70mm f/2.8G ED
 10/04/2006 07:59:54 AM
great action shot...
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