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Postby ozczecho on Tue Mar 15, 2005 11:29 pm

Hi All,

Taken at Couran Cove, my son and daughter holding hands...

Any comments / advice would be appreciated...

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Postby Glen on Wed Mar 16, 2005 12:44 am

Looks good, maybe could be a little sharper, nice composition
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Postby sirhc55 on Wed Mar 16, 2005 8:52 am

Very nice composition but my eyes keep going to the left hand side. The buildings are overpowering your son and daughter.

If you are handy in the PS scene my suggestion would be to defocus the left hand side and desaturate so that your children become more of the focal point.
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Postby genji on Wed Mar 16, 2005 9:16 am

yeah i agree with chris,

not sure on the intent of the photo.

if your children are the subject, then they should be in focus with shallow DOF.
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Postby the foto fanatic on Wed Mar 16, 2005 9:20 am

I sort of agree with Chris.
I think there are two pix here:
    the symmetry of the buildings and reflections
    the children strolling along the walkway

On the positive side:
    nice lighting
    lovely feel in the attitude of the kids


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Postby ozczecho on Fri Mar 25, 2005 1:00 am

Thanks everyone for your feedback.

Maybe I was trying to do too much in the photo, and in reality it should have been two photos....

Anyway I took the advice from Chris and hacked away on the picture in PS. As you can see I am still getting to grips with PS :?

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Postby sirhc55 on Fri Mar 25, 2005 9:25 am

osczecho - that is a lot better and I hope you see where I was coming from in isolating the subject of the photo - the children.

You could go further on this pic (desaturation of buildings) but I think you have probably had enough PP’ing to last a week or two :wink:
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Postby W00DY on Fri Mar 25, 2005 9:45 am

osczecho,

The PP shot is much better.

The only other thing I would do is clone out the bird in the top right corner, little distracting.

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