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Post-Challenge comments:
Thanks all for your votes, comments, and a Top 15 finish!
I had taken many other shots of this guy on the phone with a couple of trains coming and going. He finally caught on to me and stared at me. I didn't realize he was looking right at me for this sequence of shots.
I tried various shutter speeds and 1/20th of second seemed to provide the right amount of blur.
He had also been standing straight with his back turned to me. When he turned around I also didn't realize he was leaning parallel to the tree, which I thought was a nice touch.
Thanks again, everybody!
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Place: 14 out of 215 Avg (all users): 6.4217 Avg (commenters): 7.8889 Avg (participants): 6.5181 Avg (non-participants): 6.3253 Views since voting: 1831 Views during voting: 299 Votes: 166 Comments: 14 Favorites: 0
Sweet finish Les! Congrats on a top-twenty placing. It's a bummer that we still can't see/vote on challenge entries that belong to DPL team members after the team has long since finished. Personally I'd have given this an 8. Nicely composed and the motion blur is a great touch.
This is great! I like the fact that he's aware of you taking the image yet seems very much in his own moment of making th call. The partially blurred train behind makes a really, really great backdrop. Composition with three and platform sign is spot on.
Composition: Subject Placement, Cropping, Background very good,
Technical: Focus, Exposure: a bit too bright
Appeal: tells a story
Total Averaged Rating 7
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