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[Dec. 3rd, 2008 06:10:34 PM]
Addition: I realize the extra white on the bottom is an issue for some. If you like, feel free to save a copy of this after the challenge and try it cropped off. This image didn't look good (to me) any way I cropped it other than the original, in camera crop.
I would love to see what anyone else could come up with to make this better or just different without losing the essence of 'her' within the photo. Post 'em up here in the comments and I will do my darnedest to check them out and take your suggestions/edits to heart.
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Place: 175 out of 417 Avg (all users): 5.7563 Avg (commenters): 6.5000 Avg (participants): 5.7364 Avg (non-participants): 5.8000 Views since voting: 1007 Views during voting: 282 Votes: 160 Comments: 10 Favorites: 0
They never did figure out how she was able to do it, hovering there in mid-air, like some mini version of SuperGirl or something. Not that she had ever shown the ability to actually fly, no, that would have just elevated her to the level of freakish.
Yet for as much as she would do this trick of hers (while watching TV, or reading a book, or to delight friends on the playground), it always caused her mother's heart to leap into her throat when she rounded and corner to come face to face with her floating daughter.
In later years, when she made a fortune from her ability and was able to keep her mother, suffering from Alzheimer's, in the best medical care, it was often only this ability that her mother would remember, and every time she used it her mother would laugh like a child again. She may not remember her name, or how to control her bladder, but she would laugh every time. Right until the end.
She wiped a tear and closed the album and smiled, and then slowly lowered herself to the floor.
so exquisitely done... simple mundane studio portrait turned into something extraordinary, you either got real lucky or you're real good, I suspect the latter.
I think this would be scoring much higher if she were the only thing in the white background and if her elbow had been included. I like the positioning of her higher up in the frame that we'd normally see. Original. (not voting yet)
I like the pov and the lighting, but the composition is a little strange with the arm cut off and all of the foreground...not sure what that is in the background either...she looks pretty and I would definitly try again
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