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Published: 2004-01-26 19:49:46 +0000 UTC; Views: 3728; Favourites: 72; Downloads: 854
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This is my cousin, AndrΓ©, eating a watermelon during a family reunion we had at my grandparent's farm back in Brazil. I wanted to draw out the contrast of the red in the photo, especially in the watermelon. The reflection on the Volkswagen Beetle also added to the overall composition of the photo.Related content
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This is my favorite image of yours so far.Delightful.
Peace&Respect Jojo
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VW beetles are great 
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Great Shot Man, gotta ask you if that is the beatle true color or did you metalisize it some how????????
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Excellent!
the reflections on the car looks so metallic, wow. is it a manipulation or real paint reflections!?!
beautiful composition & great moment captured...
love the reds & monochromes
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nice photo..your cousin is really calm eating his "watermelon "...but the car behind him, looks like war or something with fire burning
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oh I really like this. lovely all over.
and what a cute boy. I was in sΓ£o paolo when I was about 8 years old, and i remember many brazil boys being cute
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This is great definetly a fave and +devwatch
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Beautifully done. This is my favourite from your gallery; the colour, reflection, composition and the expression is fantastic.
Well done.
~Orion
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great photo, love the reds, you did a good job. keep it up
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really good photo!
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I really like this effect as well.. thanks for the link to it! The red tones really help each other out, and make the focus on the watermelon stand out even more. The expression on his face is priceless. Looks like you coloured out of the lines on some parts of the car (just a tiny bit messy on some of the borders) but the overall effect is wonderful!
A square crop would work for this as well, I think... if you were to crop just a bit from the right to eliminate some of the blown out road at the top. His eyes are looking back into the scene, so it wouldn't feel cramped on the right.
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Great job.. It's veruy expressive, and that back and white, with that red contrast is great
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fantastic. sometimes i find the b&w with some colours drawn out a little heavy-handed or laboured, but you do it nicely here. nice shot. perfect innocence with a tinge of apprehension for the years ahead. i love it!
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eee! ><;;
i love it!!! the cropped colours are stunning..
mmm..watermelon..
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wow!! this is great work!! u have mastered this shot!
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This is fantastic!
I've enjoyed your entire gallery!
You left such a wonderful comment in my gallery today, I HAD to come see what YOU are all about!. You, my friend, are GIFTED!
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Watermelon? Silly me...I thought he was eating a fender from the car!
What a nice shot.
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holy wo0w!!... that's amazing. Nice shot, love the way you brought the reds out!!
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Magnificent shot, Micah.
You've definitely brought out the red in both the car and the watermelon with emphasis on the latter. I like the composition of this one. The car sort of frames the boy into the rest of the photo.
How do you do your desaturated pieces? Do you make 2 layers in photoshop and erase or do you use lasso or something? (Note please
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truly amazing piece!!! I am going to be you someday, or cry that I'm not!!
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That's a lovely picture! So simple, so innocent, and it includes a VW BEETLE! What more could you possibly want?!
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and car!
Steller
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I love how the red and grayscale contrasts, lovely composition ^^
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You certainly captured a moment in this one. Excellent shot.
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*-* I love your photography so much. You turn the simplest things-- a kid eating watermelon next to a car-- into masterpieces. You certainly have a good eye for this. Great work!
Hope you don't mind if I use this for my desktop, do you?
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not at all! enjoy it.
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Wow, I really like this idea...came very close to a favourite for me...I just think that the car takes your attention away from the subject of the photo a little. But I really love the idea, black & white + colour really help bring out the object.
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dang! i missed the favorite by a hair!
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I really like the red contrasted with the b&w. You did an especially good job with that.
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well you most definetly pulled that off 
great chromey red and just lovely - the whole image 
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you did great with the contrastage of the red in the photo. good job. i enjoy it greatly.
~ash khones~
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I love the matching watermelon and the matching car. Very nice. I also like how part of the picture is slightly colored. Makes the red bold and much more contrasting to the rest of the picture.
~Meg
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I too think you have made a great job on the colours, and it overall looks very effective. Was he hiding so noone would steal his watermelon?
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no. he was just watching other kids play and sat down with the watermelon. i think he was tired from running around.
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Oh this is SO cute!
What a gorgeous photo. The expression on his face is gorgeous. The colouring was well done too
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