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07-SEP-2008 kiki2

diagonal kid

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Canon EOS 20D ,Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM
1/400s f/2.8 at 48.0mm iso100 full exif

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ctfchallenge17-Sep-2008 11:06
Well I couldn't very well chase him away, could I! I mean.. he looked so happy.. :P j/k
-k2
Rod 17-Sep-2008 10:47
If this is a picy of the rails & surrounding diagonals then it's a stroke of genius even though I now find the boy a distraction:-)hehe
ctfchallenge17-Sep-2008 09:12
Thank you very much, Rod! Interesting stuff. I guess I can expect a bill in the post now :)
What if I say the kid is just a prop? That this is a pic of a rail and surrounding diagonals? I should tone down that skin..
-k2
Rod 17-Sep-2008 05:28
I'm here now so stop whinging, now for the picy It looks very good to me & the skin tones look within the bounds of wot we would call normal. The light looks really good (prob overcast) which seems to always give colour picys a nice look. I'm not so at ease with the composition, I find the handrail that straightens out on the left to not help as It seems to compete for attention. It's too hard without being there to suggest how it should have been framed but if you could have swung your camera to the right to exclude the horizontal rail I think it would have worked better for me. If his legs were wrapped around the rail then a picy of the whole boy going across the picy would have been a ripper. Mostly I don't like square crops but this works a lot better for me by cropping the horizontal rail out. I don't know if you're afflicted with the teaching adage that "subjects should be placed left or right in the frame" to create some dynamics as the teachers will say a centred subject is too static. Itsa bit like learning the rule of thirds as a beginner it's very good advice when first learning to teach us to get an eye for wot looks good in a picy but when we develop a bit of an eye then all these rules should be completely dispensed wiv & just trust our own eye to what looks good to us for better or worse, that's when the really good picys start to happen. There's a few well respected picy takers in both forum challenges like Lee & Iso that seem to religiously place their subjects almost extreme right or left which I find to look predictable & static as all subjects deserve differing compositions. Anyhow that's enough for now & don't say you didn't ask:-)
Guest 16-Sep-2008 16:13
I love the feel of this moment in time Yvonne
ctfchallenge13-Sep-2008 21:50
really cute! and an excellent candid.
Penny Street
ctfchallenge13-Sep-2008 12:10
Mary Anne: Looked at other pics with this kid in them.. didn't notice before: He IS a "diagonal kid".. leaning all over the place :)

aam1234, COAmature: What an exquisite taste you have ;) Thank you very much!
(aam: Replaced it with a larger version.)
-k2
ctfchallenge13-Sep-2008 03:11
Excellent. I really a good candid portrait. -COAmature
aam1234 12-Sep-2008 23:58
Excellent.

Wish the photo was bigger so we can have a better look at it.
ctfchallenge12-Sep-2008 19:20
I love the impish look on his face. And despite the nice little outfit, the stain on his elbow indicates that this kid is seldom in a "proper" vertical position.
--Mary Anne