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Peter Pan and the Lost Boys
Peter Pan and the Lost Boys
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Challenge: Color Portrait II (Advanced Editing V)
Camera: Olympus E-500 EVOLT
Lens: Olympus 17.5-45mm f/3.5-5.6
Location: Imizamo Yethu Township in Hout Bay
Date: Mar 17, 2007
Aperture: f/10
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/125s
Galleries: Portraiture, Children
Date Uploaded: Mar 18, 2007

 Imizamo Yethu township outside Hout Bay in Cape Town. Part of a series I'm working on: these kids were sledding down a tar hill on upturned plastic crates - they would come flying down the hill and crash land in a sandy, stony break at the bottom. Very quickly my camera presence became an inspiration and they started showing off every trick they knew: spinning top throwing, handstands, walking on hands, tar surfing on small broken off bits of asbestos... such a refreshin afternoon.

In terms of photographic appeal - have grave doubts that this will be well received on DPC - just too retro perhaps and lacking the HDR colour saturated style that people like. But I went for this for personal pride. Hope it gets lots of views, lots of comments and that people come back to see what it was about after the voting.... Will post more work up in the portfolio as the week unfolds.

Statistics
Place: 115 out of 268
Avg (all users): 5.5946
Avg (commenters): 10.0000
Avg (participants): 5.5444
Avg (non-participants): 5.6421
Views since voting: 1476
Views during voting: 297
Votes: 185
Comments: 6
Favorites: 1 (view)

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Olympus E-400
Olympus 14-42mm f.3.5-5.6 ED Zuiko Digital Zoom
 02/03/2009 09:49:32 AM
Processing happened by way of an accident. I had trouble with my White Balance and when I got home, the series were overly saturated in BLUE! Loved the content, but the blue was over-powering and I was almost in tears with disappointment. What happened next I think is a form of primitive cross processing, because I applied The Draganizer filter program to the image, which does a whole lot of things: pulls out contrast and warmifies (thus subduing the blues). It was very much a touch of the button to set the Draganizer program running.

We live and learn. I rather liked the result and processed the rest of the images from the outing in the same way. Really gives them a stylistic punch.
Sigma DP1x
01/31/2009 10:05:04 PM
Absolutely love this, and it's a great story. Would you mind sharing how you processed it? The colors are most appealing and are a fantastic match to the subject matter.
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Canon EOS-500D Rebel T1i
Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6
 03/26/2007 02:22:07 AM
well this was one of my top picks of the challenge. as you said... doesn't have the typical DPC appeal. Shame people don't pay more attention.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
Fujifilm FinePix S9000
 03/20/2007 01:04:40 AM
Looks like Ms Goodman :) Beautiful 10
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Canon EOS-5D
Canon EF 85mm f/1.8 USM
 03/19/2007 12:41:06 PM
the best of the challenge. love the tones. 10
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Canon EOS-50D
Canon EF 28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM
 03/19/2007 10:31:17 AM
WOW, this says a million words! Nicely done!
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