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September 12 2004 Roumen Kostov

Jump*

Canon EOS 300D Digital Rebel
1/2000, F3.5 ISO 100, 135 mm full exif

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snootydog24-Sep-2004 16:09
this is absolutely outstanding. I can't even find words for how amazing I think it is.
Canon DSLR Challenge22-Sep-2004 00:55
Roumen,
SUPERB! Just wonderful. Roberta
Canon DSLR Challenge17-Sep-2004 19:04
This is the only shot I have of the several jumpers training. I wanted to take more shots of others too, but unfortunately time was running out and I had to leave. I did not make prints yet, processed the file just before uploading. Thanks! --Roumen
Canon DSLR Challenge17-Sep-2004 09:57
This one is really a great catch! And I like the little touching up you have done with this, digital at it's best. You mentioned that you were just walking by, well, that's one great 'decisive moment'. Did you already give her a print?
Rob
Canon DSLR Challenge17-Sep-2004 03:07
Hi Olaf, most of the background behind her was occupied by white cloud with little areas of pale blue sky. I used curves to lighten the background even more and decreased saturation a little. Here is the original cropped image:http://genji.image.pbase.com/u47/kost/upload/33900346.CRW_2657c (needs .jpg).
I did not have control over the color of her top. This was an outdoor training facility I was passing by.
I wondered who left the empty comment. I thought that it was inadvertently from someone logged in to the cslr_challenge or that my prerelease browser (Mozilla Firefox) had a bug and was pressing the button for leaving comments when I was moving back and forth in the gallery. Thus I deleted the empty comment. Now I know that was you, and know your reasons to have the image name associated with the recent comments if you put it in the subject line. The initial comment that you use now is better.
Regards! --Roumen
Canon DSLR Challenge16-Sep-2004 23:38
Roumen, I had left a comment earlier with just a period in it - I guess you removed it (or maybe it was somebody else? - doesn't matter!). I did it because I wanted to comment, but didn't have the time at the time and I wanted to default the subject line of any subsequent comments to the title of the photograph. Well, if you wondered (you must have), now you know who did it and why... Now on to my comment:

Talk about the decisive moment - great catch! How did you get such a white background - a washed out sky? Looks great against the black pants. The windmill shape of her body is a perfect 360° divided in three equals and adds interest, but would have been even stronger had her top been black as well. Don't know if you could have done anything about that, though! The white background and flat perspective (due to the relatively long shooting distance) lends a two-dimensional quality to the shot, but the ropes and wires bring back some sense of space. This "two-and-a-half-dimensional" quality is very graphic, as graphics are usually two-dimensional, but often try to simulate depth - with perspective lines or relative weights (thicknesses) to the lines.

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Olaf
Canon DSLR Challenge16-Sep-2004 23:06
Cheers Vikas! Thanks for the comment! -Roumen
Canon DSLR Challenge16-Sep-2004 18:34
Simply Stunning.... very effective, love this shot. Really Really like it. Cheers.

Vikas