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from baba/David (38,576) 
on November 1, 2009 8:38:47 AM CST
Not all vintage shots have to be sepia and in true proportions. Old inexpensive cameras had distortion in the lens. Though apparently accidental, I think in other categories this might be a irredeemable flaw. This might have worked "okay" in "Breaking the rules" category as well ;) Addressing the content of the photo, I think the bicycle on the right looks like it is from the 60's and that with the traditional dress on Sabbath does give this a timeless feel to the shot. Without the bicycle and the type of bicycle, not so much. I get the impression that this is a boy? Or maybe that is the caused by the distortion? So while not vintage in terms of pre 1900, I think it still has elements that work in the photo
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from karin2007/Karin (19,610) 
on November 1, 2009 2:46:14 AM CST
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Hi Lauren!
Believe me, I really hate to do that, (especially for the Scavanger Hunt)
giving you that red rating ... but I am always totally honest in my ratings,
never give out a "convenience" or "friendship" rating - most of the time I
try to give a positive rating for an image that is not so good - trying to
justify a 1TU when I think the image could be improved by post-processing or there is creativity seen in the image,
but here I honestly think the image is so flawed, that only with a
reshoot it is possible to get a better result.
IMO you must have done a mistake while resizing, I think you did not click
the option : keep the proportions ... did you just define a certain amount
of pixel for lenght and width? I don't have any other explanation
for what happened here. Which software are you using?
You did convert the image to B&W for the vintage look which is of course a
good idea- but it did not turn out well, because you have to work with curves a
bit afterwards and add some contrast. Your image is way to dark, I can hardly
see any details and it also lacks sharpness. I would also recommend to use "unsharp
mask" after resizing - The settings that work for me: radius 0,5 pixel at
100% - If you don't really know. what I mean, you can write me an email
and I'd send you some sceenshots as a tutorial on how to do it.
The man is too centered, actually he is in the absolute middle of your image
- which makes an image less interesting. I would try a different
perspective for this shot, taking the image more from the left, moving also the
camera that the man is also more to the left of the image and trying that the
street is a bit diagonal in your image in order that we can see the
vanishing point of the road on the right of the image - that would give
the photo depth. But actually I would recommend to look for a more interesting
scene.
Regards,
Karin
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From laurenw/Lauren (3,315)
on November 1, 2009 6:40:07 AM CST
Thank you Karin. Actually I have windows photo gallery and microsoft office picture gallery - I do not know what happened...I did what I always do to ..I resized the photo after I figured out how to make it black & white using this software...and then it looked fine on my screen when I resized it...but when I uploaded it did not... I totally get what you mean about a new shot...I kind of gave up on looking for a new vintage shot...I just got stuck and figured it would be best to move on and submit this as I was getting frustrated with figuring out the resizing. Once I stop enjoying...I figure move on and go to the next one and learn from this one. I will write you for the link....
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From karin2007/Karin (19,610)
on November 1, 2009 8:45:13 AM CST
As the original is not flawed I changed the rating to 1TU :)
Thanks you Lauren for sending me the original image that was not bad at all!
I tried a bit of postprocessing, the result you can see here:
Link
Cheers, Karin
PS: I can recommend to download "GIMP" it's for free and quite a powerful
post-processing program -
Download
that has a lot of tutorials on the web, for example here:
Link
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From robchant/Robert (8,932)
on November 1, 2009 9:12:03 AM CST
Great job Karin! I love your version of this. Take care, Rob.
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from lakecarole/Carole (10,372)
on October 31, 2009 4:13:58 PM CDT
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Lauren, Photo sig does have a article on how to resize your photo for upload. As for vintage category I don't think this is quite what is called for, except for being b&W (which could work with certain subjects) I don't see anything vintage about it. Carole
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from pauldavies/Paul (5,528)
on October 31, 2009 1:26:33 PM CDT
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Sorry Lauren, I don't often do hard critiques, but an under exposed, out of focus shot of a midget from behind doesn't really spark any interest to me.
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From laurenw/Lauren (3,315)
on October 31, 2009 1:30:31 PM CDT
Thanks actually - this was a tough category for me for scavenger hunt...I gave up trying to find another vintage option... :-) ...in any case ..it is not a small person...just resizing the photo gave me a problem....thank you though.
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