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Tempest
Tempest
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Challenge: Surreal Still Life (Advanced Editing VII)
Camera: Canon EOS-700D Rebel T5i
Lens: Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 USM Macro
Location: studio
Date: Sep 24, 2015
Aperture: 16
ISO: 200
Shutter: 4
Date Uploaded: Sep 24, 2015

One of my favorite subjects.

Ancient modeling clay, a few glass beads and some google eyes. Noodle around until something forms and proceed thru many iterations. Fiddle with lighting.

Title? could have been anything. Just selected a word and used it.

Score? Who cares. It was a joy to do.

Straight shot, on tripod, using fragments of stained glass for side-light filter. Small crop. Viveza 2 to increase structure on forms, Selective Colors to bring out tones. Sharpened.

Statistics
Place: 32 out of 54
Avg (all users): 5.3582
Avg (commenters): 6.0000
Avg (participants): 5.5484
Avg (non-participants): 5.1944
Views since voting: 295
Views during voting: 150
Votes: 67
Comments: 4
Favorites: 0


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10/05/2015 04:36:12 AM
*Hello from Sid and the Critique Club*

An intriguing image that meets the challenge.

Very creatively done, I can see you had a lot of fun getting this to where it is. What is it? Who cares, it is very different and therefore has its own impact as a result. It feels like a family of aliens, dad on the right mum on the left with their two siblings, all sharing a moment together. The most intriguing elements are the glass 'heads' of mum and dad, in particular the blue of mum and the red blob of dad but also the reflected arched yellowish shape too. I particularly like dads pose its really quite dynamic.

The technical aspects are good and appropriate, you have a full DOF with good detail throughout. The plain red background works well especially with the blue lighting. The textures are coming out well. It all works very well. The title I'm not so sure about, tempest is not the feeling I get from your image, for me its more like 'togetherness'.

Its nice to see an entry that has been created purely for your own pleasure regardless of the anticipated reception from your voters, I think it deserved a lot better but that was not your motivation anyway. Thanks for your submission, well done, Sid
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
10/04/2015 12:15:30 PM
I like the blue tint on it.
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10/03/2015 10:28:58 AM
Nice mixture of sci-fi and surreal. I like the lighting.
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09/28/2015 07:16:09 AM
This came up first in voting for me...surreal? I don't know. Definitely wierd, though, & the lighting is odd. Wierd, & odd.
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