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Photojournalism Steve McCurry style.

Challenge #9 in the Mentors series. Hosted by Martin Ocando, Carlos U, Aleo Veuliah, Rick Sammon.

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Hosted by Aleo Veuliah

Steve McCurry is an American photojournalist best known for his photograph, "Afghan Girl" that originally appeared in National Geographic magazine. Lets pay tribute to Mr. McCurry with our best shot, worth to be in the cover of the big magazines.

Info here:

Steve McCurrySite

Wikipedia Steve McCurry Info

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Announced:

Tuesday, 19th February, 2013 (GMT)

Submissions:

Tuesday, 26th February, 2013 – Monday, 4th March, 2013 (GMT)

Voting:

Tuesday, 5th March, 2013 – Monday, 11th March, 2013 (GMT)

Processing rules:

Color or black and white are fine. (not over saturated colors)
Panoramas not allowed.
Good post processing, not heavy manipulated images.
Minimum size 1024x768.

Capture date rules:

No restrictions.

Additional rules:

Pictures need to show well Steve McCurry style.
All kinds of lenses.
No frames or watermarks on the images.
Good technical description appreciated.
A very good composition is appreciated.

Maximum number of entries per user:

Maximum number of entries in challenge:

150

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by Jomagne

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Camera:	Canon EOS 550D (EOS Rebel T2i / EOS Kiss X4)
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Submitted:	Friday, 1st March, 2013 06:05 (GMT)
Taken:	Saturday, 16th June, 2012
Focal length:	249 mm
Shutter speed:	1/250 sec
Aperture:	F7.1
ISO:	200
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Galleries:	View this photo in Jomagne's gallery

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Jomagne

Thanks every one for the nice and inspiring comments.

Mar 15, 2013permalink

photo nuts

Well deserved!

Mar 14, 2013permalink

Parnava

lovely image! this has been one of my favorites in this challenge...congratulations on the 1st place :)

Mar 13, 2013permalink

Eddie Perry

Well done, Great feeling in this photograph! I would say it would have been even better with a title and description as we dont know where this was taken! Congrats on winning!!

Mar 12, 2013permalink

Ronan_M

really really good. Well done

Mar 12, 2013permalink

backwoods

very beatifull,very sentimental....

Mar 2, 2013permalink


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