It is not a real baby but a practice dummy. If you look closely you can see the seam accross its head. This photo was taken during a cpr training class. I thought it was an interesting approach to the challenge (STILL). One cpr students is trying to breath life into a still, innanimate object, while the other is holding down the practice dummy still. I thought having all that drama frozen in the frame would be a good entry for this challenge.
Lighting:
This image was lit with the available fluorescent lights and flash.
I love the interpretation of the challenge. Just think about the possible meanings of this title:
1. An inanimate object, as you mentioned, is "still"
2. The image also suggests someone dying, which makes life "still."
3. Where there's life, there's hope. This image depicts the struggle that EMTs go through when there's still life.
As someone mentioned, the viewer breathes a sigh of relief upon realizing that the child is not real. But the poignancy remains because a photograph is never "real" to the viewer.
There is another sense in which this fulfills the challenge. You took the strategy that some other brave hearts took: freezing motion and calling that stillness. Here we have the frenetic motion of people trying to save a life (even if it is staged) frozen forever. The resulting effect really does feel "still," almost eerily so.
The flash does give this a snapshot feel, but personally I find this only adds to the immediacy of the shot. The composition is great. It conveys the story with as little visual information as possible about the rescuers. The hands doing cpr reach down from above, disembodied. For me they represent hope. They could also represent faith.
I think that the snapshot feel, the exciting composition and the creative interpretation of the challenge all led the DPCers to vote you low. Sad, isn't it?
Shouldn't you be in the ambulance by now!?!?!?!?! I'm pretty sure you took this in humor, especially judging by the title. It's a nice photo and something everybody should learn - BUT NEVER HAVE TO USE - PLEASE GOD. Anyway, good luck with the photo...7
A low score from me because the doll shines with reflected light and the shirt on the left is overexposed. I don't think b&w has improved this photo -- some garish colors might have helped!
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