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Collection: Still life
Date Uploaded: Jan 23, 2013

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Thank you all for the lovely comments. Yes, of course that it was a pun, a film noir one, a la chinois!

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02/07/2013 03:25:41 PM
Very funny. Quite an interesting lighting effect too.
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01/31/2013 04:32:48 PM
I'm enjoying this as a stage piece - on a plate no less. Pun notwithstanding, there is a somber side of the fallen manderin and conspiratorial group. Compositional instability adds some tension.
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01/26/2013 10:30:33 PM
Didn't make the connection on first glance, then when I looked a bit harder I burst out laughing. I'm not sure if that was your intended reaction, but I love the visual pun
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01/26/2013 10:12:16 PM
Good idea, loved reading the other comments. The definition (texture, color) of the orange mandarins is beautiful, but the light on the figures could be better I think.
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01/25/2013 08:12:24 PM
The humor is appreciated .. it's so funny and yet at the same time, rather indicative of the attitude of times we live in - 3 stand chatting while totally ignoring the fallen one - I like the shadows the fruit make on the plate.
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01/25/2013 03:22:17 PM
Love the humor. This is also a mysterious image that makes one think about the scene.
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01/25/2013 06:44:07 AM
LOL! The killing mandarins! Ninja mandarins! I like the vibrant orange colour, and the greens, it's a mysterious lighting, almost noir in character with the shadows.
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01/25/2013 06:02:24 AM
While I like the silhouettes the bit of light on the one that shows details makes me want to see more. As is it's a bit like a campfire with oranges instead of flames. Clever.
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01/24/2013 07:06:33 AM
LOL. Too funny.
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01/24/2013 01:26:18 AM
Someone has been kicked out of the group. The way you have the light angled you can see some of the fruit reflected. Nice.
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01/24/2013 01:14:59 AM
I really like the set up and the Manderins in silhouette im loving, especially the way you have grouped the 3 and one randomly lying flat. I like what you have chosen to light, but for me just a little softer would have been more pleasing, like the light on the front manderin.
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01/24/2013 01:08:34 AM
Very funny :-).
I do think that you create too much contrast on the fruit with your choice of lighting. Especially the leaves; some parts are almost black, others green. I would have thought a more even light would perhaps have worked better (I think the figures as silhouettes work well).
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01/24/2013 01:02:51 AM
Very clever but exposure seems a little off.
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01/24/2013 12:08:54 AM
Haha! One Mandarin has passed out. Painting with light? I think you need a longer exposure :)
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01/23/2013 07:21:44 PM
A little humor, I see :) Clever.
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