This is my youngest daughter, taken at a playground while waiting for my other daughter's swim practice to end. I had taken the hat with us hoping to get a shot for this contest, and was thrilled to find that there had been a fall carnival the night before at the school, hence the hay bales.
A lot of people commented about the white areas in the background. They are actually buildings. There was no good angle to avoid them, so I set the fstop to the max (1.4) and blurred them out. You have to love a fast lens.
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Yeah... nice to see another Pentax user in the top 10 ;) Those fast 50s are great, aren't they? Awesome work on the DoF and huge congrats for the great finish!
Interesting to see so many "nice bokeh" comments, whereas the bokeh here is third-rate - the circular highlights are rendered as well defined circles with hard edges.
The subject is captured beautifully such clear focus, soft hues and a wonderful smile. It is such a shame that there is a large bleached squar right next to her sweet head. It is really distracting = 8
Great lighting and composition. The bokeh is distracting though and the huge area of bright on her right and to a lesser degree left are distracting. I would love to see the eyes brightened but I know this is basic editing only. I can't wait to see what lense was used. I've gone back and forth between 8 and 9...and I think I'll stick with 9 because of the emotion it stirs...
the girl resting her arms on, what looks like a bale of hay, is fantastic, sharp well positiond, but the big splash of washed out white, to the left is just too distracting
wonderful bokeh, really awesome...perhaps the composition isn't quite right and the shadow on the face is strong and I wish you had a couple of catchlights in the eyes, but apart from that she's gorgeous and really beautifully captured in a great setting 8
Great shot. I'm wondering if this is Scalverts. Regardless of whose it is, it is a wonderful shot, nice bokeh, cute model (I'm not one of those DPC child haters) and pretty good lighting. Score: 10. I have this as the Yellow Ribbon right now.
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