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tommyd65


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Challenge: Pain (Basic Editing III)
Camera: Canon EOS-10D
Location: Basement
Date: Feb 8, 2005
Aperture: 9.5
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/10 sec
Galleries: Emotive, Black and White
Date Uploaded: Feb 8, 2005

 This is my third submission. I had grand ideas about this one, but they didn't really come out as I thought. I basically did it with 3 hours left in the challenge (probably not the best idea). I wanted to submit something though.

The lighting isn't that great, and the detail I was hoping to get with the "teardrops" wasn't there. Not sure if it was the choice of lens or just the proximity to the paper. Definitely need more help with the lighting. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Played with it in Photoshop Elements 2.0:
- Cropped
- USM
- Changed levels
- Changed contrast and brightness slightly
- Removed color, and lightened reds to make her hand a little lighter.

Thanks to my wife Esra for posing for me. She displayed quite a lot of patience between all the setting up and checking of shots.

Statistics
Place: 55 out of 215
Avg (all users): 5.2736
Avg (commenters): 5.8889
Avg (participants): 5.0392
Avg (non-participants): 5.3789
Views since voting: 777
Views during voting: 508
Votes: 329
Comments: 11
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
02/15/2005 06:35:05 PM
Tack on sharp focus, great details in the hand/ring/letters. The tears are a great extra touch. Nice job
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 02/14/2005 11:55:18 PM
really liked this picture
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 02/14/2005 12:11:01 AM
I can't tell you how many times I've heard that before!.. that, and "it's not you, it's me!"
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 02/13/2005 01:02:54 PM
The three drops on the page look like they were placed there as opposed to falling teardrops.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 02/10/2005 10:53:35 AM
A litlle stif maybe...Handwritten would of given a better effect. The drops look like the are on waxed paper!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 02/10/2005 10:39:50 AM
the background needs to contrast more with the paper of the letter.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 02/09/2005 10:41:53 AM
depressing .. very plain yet full of pain...... i like it
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 02/09/2005 03:24:48 AM
Very emotive, and also very sharp photo!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 02/09/2005 02:11:42 AM
You should at least have written the letter by hand, and chosen a paper that looks less like it came just out of a printer. Your idea is good, but I don't like the perspective that much. What about taking the shot from behind her, using head and shoulder to frame the letter? 6.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 02/08/2005 08:27:15 PM
I thought of do a sucide as well, Love the way this turned out. Maybe something else that completes the story? Answers why.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 02/08/2005 08:26:47 PM
Beautiful font for such a sad note.....
  Photographer found comment helpful.


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