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One Degree of Separation
One Degree of Separation
srbrubaker


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Challenge: Separation (Advanced Editing IV)
Camera: Nikon Coolpix 8700
Location: Home
Date: Feb 17, 2005
Aperture: f/3.3
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/4,2 sec
Galleries: Black and White
Date Uploaded: Feb 17, 2005

 Taken in a room now serving as an office. Two Indian fetish bears were placed on a melamine work surface. The unusual framing is an act of creative desparation since any other composition would have cluttered the photo with office furniture and wall decorations.

These shiny black bears were photographed in four locations indoors and out in dozens of exposures. Few surface finishes pose so much of a problem in a subject ( or opportunity ) since the objects reflect the whole world as an image into the camera. The shiny surface poses serious problems for an auto focus and exposure camera. Since I have not (yet) bothered to learn the manual exposure options (not that they are anyting like those on a good SLR) I had to figure out ways of faking the camera into exposing correcty, at one point setting up a cookbook at the same distance as the small bear and using it to focus and set exposure.

Editing consisted of a levels adjustment, curves, hue/sat to desaturate, and cropping.

Statistics
Place: 148 out of 182
Avg (all users): 4.8341
Avg (commenters): 4.6000
Avg (participants): 4.7473
Avg (non-participants): 4.9000
Views since voting: 657
Views during voting: 371
Votes: 211
Comments: 7
Favorites: 0

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AuthorThread
 02/27/2005 11:57:00 PM
Thanks to all who viewed it and voted. It is very gratifying to see that the photo had some resonance with a handful of voters.
 Comments Made During the Challenge
02/25/2005 12:31:37 PM
I have revisited this picture numerious times, but I can't figure it out. Looking forward in reviewing your comments, along with everybody elses.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 02/24/2005 11:12:31 AM
I don't understand the image, but it's well done! 8
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 02/24/2005 09:29:11 AM
nope im lost.... yup completely oblivious to the separation you were trying to show. I do however enjoy the shiney relective thing in the backgroung and the etching on it.. the rest of the shot makes no sense to me..
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 02/23/2005 09:18:07 AM
very unique
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 02/21/2005 05:47:17 AM
i'm not sure what this is.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 02/20/2005 09:39:57 PM
What is this? I'd vote it higher if I had any idea what this was. Sorry!
  Photographer found comment helpful.


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