Challenge:Point of View (Classic Editing) Camera:Olympus D-550Z Location: Little Tokyo shopping center, Los Angeles, CA Date: Jan 10, 2004 Aperture: F3.2 ISO: 60 Shutter: 1/125 sec Galleries:Still Life Date Uploaded: Jan 11, 2004
Cropped from horizontal original, resized and sharpened a tiny bit.
While resting as we were shopping in Little Tokyo, I put my camera down on the ground to take some shots. If I had a non-autmatic camera, I'm sure I would have gotten better scores for being able to focus differently, but we'll see. I hope that the title fits as well I as I think it does. Personally it fits to my going off to college next year and how I have no idea what is going to happen. ^_^
Thanks for the comments and votes!
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Place: 171 out of 286 Avg (all users): 4.9960 Avg (commenters): 6.0000 Avg (participants): 4.7143 Avg (non-participants): 5.2538 Views since voting: 1224 Votes: 249 Comments: 24 Favorites: 0
Man, this should have placed much higher. And looking at it again now, I wonder if it would help it out by cropping down from the top of the shopper's heads, cuting out the bright spots. But as I've learned myself, don't let your score dictate to you the worth of your shot, as its been said in the forums, its simply because it doesn't have mass appeal.
My original comment (though maybe a little harsh) still stands. I like the shot in general. I DID make an assumption that the photographer (You, Ami) had more controll over the shot! Anytime that anyone with our camera has a shot that they think is worth entering is IMHO an accomplishment! Good job Ami!
Hmmm this didn't do as well as I thought it would, probably because 9 ppl out of 10 can't comprehend what you are talking about? Not sure... Don't worry about it keep the great shots coming!
Yes, I realized that "obscured" didn't work until just after the voting began, it should have been "undefined" like Pepette said. And the picture was rather boring, hence why I chose the one with the extreme DOF. The title did factor a lot into making it interesting, that's what I was going for.
Yay, JamieWillmott noticed the tiled horizon! The leading lines in that were just too cool to pass up.
Hahaha! ChrisW123- I was going to enter one taken at the same time with the title: "Through the Eyes of My Dog"
I should have probably put something into the foreground to pull some interest, but I was on a limited schedule and it didn't occur to me. Not to mention I felt a bit silly for putting my camera down on the ground in the middle of a shopping center. ^_^
Thanks everyone for taking the time to comment and vote! And you too, bruchen!!
That is how animals live generally... they live in the moment (the present), and don't (or can't) comprehend the past or the future. Pretty good protrayal of "point of view"! 7.
For getting past the "will I look like a dork if I pull my camera out here (and put it on the sidewalk of all places)" you get a 10, but for this shot, which has unarticulateable appeal, I give you a 7
I like the metaphore... but if we consider your future in front of you... it does'nt look obscurat all... Just undefinite! I like the use of technic to represent the idea of time!
I understand the reasoning for the out of focus background in the light of your title. I'm not sure it works, and without the title the picture would be dismissed as one more out-of-focus shot.
its a quite nice shot from a nice point of view and the title is nice as well but I think that you could have been chosen a better Location with a nice background because even if its fading, clear and blur.... I miss the thrill. I wonder if you were lying on the street for this shot?! its nice anyway, I like it.
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