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10/16/2005 02:29:12 PM |
| very well executed! love this pic |
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01/03/2005 12:33:13 PM |
Hi Petur,
Well I think this deserved to do better than 11th!
I scored it a 9 which is very high from me in 2004! (I plan to give higher votes in 2005.
Keep up the excellent work
Regards
Chris |
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12/30/2004 05:23:15 PM |
Cheers from the Critique Club...
This is a great contrasting version on Konador's image. I studied the image quite a bit prior to reading the comments and your explaination and agree with your execution.
The composition truly represents the heartache of love...Red drives love and the heat of passion, while blue creates a distance, less romantic (cold) feel...and the convenience of the filter being broken just adds strength to this image. The fact that the book was upside down made sense to me prior to reading your reasoning...Love is definately in turmoil here.
Technically, I would have liked it to be a little sharper. I would have liked to see more lighting or more of a spotlight effect as in the original image, however I do like the gleam of the light off the cracks in the filter.
Another option that may have enhanced the contrast would be to have the light shine on the filter from a higher position to minimize the size of the reflecting heart, but of course it may not have appealed to some.
A great entry to this challange and deserving of your 11th place result.
Congratulations.
Regards,
Shawn
Message edited by author 2004-12-30 22:24:47. |
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12/29/2004 01:53:13 PM |
2nd try
First of all: thank you all for your comments and votes. Getting a pat on the back from Dan for creativity/originality means alot to me. Thanks Dan
This is (obviously) a spoof on Konador's red ribbon in the Shadows II challenge.
Here is his original version, called (fittingly enouch) Love:
and his excellent and very funny tutorial about how it was made: How'd They Do That? :: Love
As I said in the Photographers comments I did not break the filter for this. I actually think filters are probably quite hard to break, esp better ones like B+W, but I'm not gonna experiment to find out, thank you very much :) The filter broke by accident and I almost posted a picture of it in the Broken Challenge outtakes thread, as this happend just a day to late for entering the challenge itself. Then I got the idea that let to this image.
The filter was, and still is, light blue (B+W 080 1.5x). And since it's broken, the love must also be broken, right? So it's got 'em blues. That was also one of the reasons why I placed the dictionary upside down, the love has gone wrong.
The book is the horribly big Websters Unabrigded Dictionary of the English Language. Fortunately L is close to the center of the book so the fold was deep enough for a nice shadow. Only problem was that most of the defintions of Love were in middle column (of 3) and therefor far from the crucial fold. So I just folded the page so first column disappeard and the 2nd column was by the centre. But then there was a nasty line which caused even nastier shadows. So I taped the sucker down :) I actually also taped the edges of page so it would be nice and taut. By balancing the book I could make the filter stand up on it own (without the use of glue or Blu-Tack or anything).
To make the page look better I first shot it without filter and used that as Custum WB. Quite a neat trick. Just remember to reset your camera when you're done :)
Here is the original, unedited photo:
Most of the editing work involved blurring the line of the clear tape I used to hold the page in the right position.
I've had a couple of PM's about why I used ND filters. There are several reasons, none of them very good:
#1. I had 'em. I had just recieved an order from B&H photo including 2 ND filters (and a extension tupe set, haven't had chance to use that much yet), and I was just dying to use these ND filters.
#2. For some strange reason I had this idea that DOF was in someway related to the length of the exposure. Now I know better. See also this tread about Aperture vs shutter speed and DOF
#3. Since I had a bit more time to play around in I held a small mirror in front of the filter and reflected some of the light back. By moving the mirror I could highlight some of the cracks in the filter without any noticable shadows on the other side.
#4. Just for the hell of it.
This photo was a lot of fun to take and to have it score well in a difficult challenge (score-wise) was even better.
Message edited by author 2004-12-29 18:55:18. |
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12/29/2004 01:41:14 PM |
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12/29/2004 01:17:09 PM |
the gremlins ate my post
edit: always save long posts to Notepad or similar.
Message edited by author 2004-12-29 18:53:54. |
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12/27/2004 05:03:17 AM |
| Congratulations on your 11th placing. You added a new twist to a standard. |
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12/25/2004 04:34:06 PM |
Composition: 6, Book is upside down
Technical: 9
Appeal: 8
Challenge: 9
Overall Calculated Average Score: 8, Nice job! |
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12/24/2004 11:48:40 AM |
| A smart, clever and great yake off on the original. Bumping up. |
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12/24/2004 10:59:23 AM |
| the upside down orientation makes it a little harder to notice the highlighting of the word love. interesting choice on the broken filter, however. |
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12/23/2004 03:35:12 PM |
| lol. Nice take on this classic. Jacko. 9 |
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12/23/2004 03:31:30 PM |
| Feeling blue? This is sharp as a tack, I liek that. I kind of wish the dictionary were inverted and the (readable) text somehow relevant to the image title... |
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12/23/2004 05:34:19 AM |
| Sorry to see you sacrifice a filter for this but this photo works. However, the original is better composed and in my personal opinion a red colour of the filter would have worked better since most people (myself included) associate love with red. I gave it a 7. |
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12/22/2004 11:32:40 PM |
| Great take on a DPChallenge classic. |
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12/22/2004 10:35:50 PM |
| Wonderful. Worthy of the original in every aspect. Well done. |
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12/22/2004 10:47:28 AM |
| Nice twist on the original. I like the choice of blue for your subject. Hope it wasn't an expensive filter. |
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12/22/2004 07:18:24 AM |
| Good take on the original. Hope you didn't break your filter just for the picture. |
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12/22/2004 05:29:56 AM |
| Simple and very well executed. |
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12/22/2004 12:33:48 AM |
| at least you had details about doing something like this. anyhow, i like it very much :) |
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12/21/2004 06:36:23 AM |
| liked other one much better |
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12/20/2004 06:05:24 AM |
Beautiful!
I really like the idea and the presentation! |
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12/20/2004 04:38:16 AM |
| Nicely executed, though I'm surprised by your decision to shoot the book upside down - it's good work, obviously, but just doesn't quite do that extra thing for me, even with the broken thing. |
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12/19/2004 10:52:02 PM |
| I hope that you used an old filter for this and didn't break one just for the challenge. A nice and original take on an old theme. |
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12/19/2004 10:13:35 PM |
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12/19/2004 09:27:44 PM |
| Get's the thumbs up from me, nice job :) If anything I would say the lighting was a little bit flat, resulting in not very much variation of shade on the pages, but that doesn't matter too much :) |
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