Well, I called it -- Brown Ribbon. I guess I had better explain why I entered this shot.
I think there is a fairy tail quality to this image. The real focal point is the child on the right, who is mesmerized by Prince Charming and clinging to his/her mother. I also like the child's mother, whose attention is not on the performers, and the dark faces in the background.
I thought about fixing the eyes, but some of the fantasy would be lost. I will do further work on this image, probably applying an artistic filter to give it more of a painted quality.
My second brown ribbon!
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Julianne, you're a good enough photographer to know the technical problems. I understand your thoughts on the central figure, but to me it's clearly Prince Charming, not the kid on the right. After him, at least to me, it's the girl to his right. Maybe the interaction between them is the main story. Whatever - as usual, if you like it, then be happy with it. :)
If there was any way to get rid of the grain that would majorly help, although shooting in the dark like this is always really hard! If your camera has an ISO setting, lowering that should eliminate the grain.
cute outfits. must have been a fun event. you will want to work on this for challenges though. the reflections in the eyes kill it. the child in the bottom right who is not dressed up takes away from the shot as well.
Compositionally this is confusing without any real focus imho. I can see the eyes on Prince Charming but it would have been better to get a bit more of the Prince's face in shot to capture the essence of the scene. Also, given the amount of editing that seems to go on for the Advanced Editing rule challenges I think you could probably have done better with their eyes, especially seeing as that's the title! Hope this helps.
sorry, but that's a terribly bad photo. Among other: no clear subject, harsh lighting, terribly noisy, but yet with lots of noise reduction artifacts, bad colors, lots of uninteresting/annoying subjects, red eyes (that are not read in this case) etc.
Context wise meets the challenge well. Unfortunate about the level of noise and the reflection of light in the eyes. Possibly could have done with a closer crop to exclude the boy in the check shirt
A nice idea and obviously a difficult night shot, Prince Charming is the focus which is nice and the detail on his jacket is lovely. I find the white eyes a little creepy though and the grain just a tad too much.
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