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Mountie On Duty: One of Canada's Finest
Mountie On Duty: One of Canada's Finest
J-Me


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Challenge: Street Portraiture (Advanced Editing VII)
Camera: Sony DSLR-A200
Lens: Sony DT 18-70mm f/3.5-5.6 Aspherical ED
Location: Ontario, Canada
Date: Jul 4, 2010
Aperture: 1/50
ISO: 320
Shutter: F 5
Galleries: Portraiture, Street
Date Uploaded: Jul 4, 2010

 I was really fortunate to find this splendid officer. She was in the middle of duty as security for the arrival of Her Majesty, The Queen of England for The Queens Plate race. It was BLISTING hot at over 40 degrees C/ 95 F. In this wool suit, full dressed, armed and on watch, she stopped at my request, posed and let me snap this shot. Right after I shot this, she was called away and there was no second chance to try again. The lighting was not optimal and I found her at the side, on a radio. After she'd finished her call and was ready to move out to a different location as the Queen arrived via motorcade, she was gracious enough to let me grab this shot.

The sign behind her was a huge backlight and my flash would only get portions of her as people pushed and shoved to get to see The Queen. I felt blessed to have gotten this shot. She didn't permit anyone else to take a shot of her. Luck was on my side and I'm grateful to her for it. :) She truly is One of Canada's Finest.

[Jul. 5th, 2010 10:34:29 AM]

I've got a compression problem and I see now what everyone is telling me. I need some advice on how to do this properly. I'm truly appreciative of everyone who is taking the time to help me out. :)

[Jul. 5th, 2010 10:39:45 AM]

I also did cut off her brim in cropping because there were 3 mounties at the same time, 2 right beside her. I only wanted her in the shot but, how do you tell the other two that you just wanted HER? LOL I took the shot of all 3 and my focus must have been aimed more towards the middle one. I didn't get a chance to reshoot because they were being called out to a different location during The Queen's visit. It was shoot and they ran. But, the comments about the brim and arm are correct. That was the reason.

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Olympus OM-D E-M1 Mark III
Olympus 45mm f/1.8 M.Zuiko Digital
 07/12/2010 01:11:34 AM
I thought this was great but I agree with the comments. You should email me the original so I can look at it. Maybe I can help you with this compression thing. Otherwise - great capture!
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
Sony DSLR-A100
Sony DT 18-70mm f/3.5-5.6 Aspherical ED
 07/11/2010 04:37:37 AM
excellent! 10
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Nikon D700
Nikon MF 28mm f/2.0 AIS
 07/10/2010 11:19:57 PM
a bit soft...what happened to your framing? 6
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Sigma DP1x
07/10/2010 08:50:16 PM
An interesting subject and an engaging pose. The quality is lacking though. The lighting is kind of flat, and it looks like you've overapplied noise reduction.
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Nikon D7200
Nikon AF-S DX Nikkor 35mm f/1.8G
 07/07/2010 12:59:16 PM
Too bad the one that gave me the $500.00 ticket didn't look like that.
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Canon EOS-1D Mark IV
Canon EF 17-40mm f/4.0 L USM
 07/06/2010 08:49:49 PM
agree, one of Canada's Finest ;)
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Nikon Z8
Nikon NIKKOR Z 24-120 f/4 S
 07/05/2010 09:32:44 AM
their uniforms are the coolest - and she is quite a beautiful young woman. I just wonder about the light and focus
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Panasonic Lumix DMC-GX7
Panasonic Lumix G 14mm F2.5 ASPH
07/05/2010 03:35:52 AM
This is a really fine portrait that I like a lot, but your post processing lets it down a bit. Foremost, you've applied way too aggressive a compression resulting in artifacts throughout your subject. Advanced Editing rules allow for about 6 times the size of this photo. I'm not sure if that's also the reason for the porcelainish skin tones and lack of texture in her uniform, or because of too high an amount of noise reduction applied. Another couple of nit picks is her left elbow and brim of her hat are cut off, and the borders. One side has a big red stripe and the other has a thing brown stripe. I imagine that's just carelessness. All easy to go back and correct and you'll have something to be proud about.
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Olympus OM-D E-M5 Mark III
Olympus 12-100mm f/4.0 M.Zuiko ED IS PRO
 07/05/2010 12:32:25 AM
Tons of blocky compression artifacts are showing. Your file size is a bit on the small side, but does not fully account for compression artifacts this heavy. I wonder if you repeatedly opened and saved as a JPG a few times. That could induce the excessive compression artifacts. Always save in an uncompressed format, such as TIF, PSD, or PSPIMAGE until the final resize and save as JPG. Always adjust JPEG compression so that your file size is as large as possible, but within the challenge limit.

Overall, the image looks a bit flat as well, with blown highlights in the background. And the subject is not framed well, being cut off at the frame edge.

Sorry to be so harsh on it this early in voting, but I feel I should at least explain a low vote if I can identify the reasons for it.
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Nikon D70
Sigma 17-70mm f/2.8-4.5 DC Macro for Nikon
 07/05/2010 12:31:02 AM
The model is nice, but the image resolution looks poor.
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