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Challenge: Dreams (Advanced Editing IV)
Collection: Challenges
Camera: Canon EOS-10D
Location: home
Date: May 4, 2005
Aperture: f8
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/8
Galleries: Emotive
Date Uploaded: May 5, 2005

 Swords made of wood and painted aluminum. Handles painted yellow and then stained.

Lighting: one strobe very low as gentle side backlight. Three blue spotlights. Two low at the swords and one high right on subject. 500 watt spotlight in wide difussion aimed from left.

standard editing.

Idea from the Waite's Tarot, the Eight of swords.

Statistics
Place: 49 out of 114
Avg (all users): 5.6905
Avg (commenters): 6.3333
Avg (participants): 5.4419
Avg (non-participants): 5.8629
Views since voting: 1104
Views during voting: 430
Votes: 210
Comments: 11
Favorites: 0

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 Comments Made During the Challenge
05/12/2005 07:25:10 PM
Something about the props make this look like a snapshot of a scene in a school play. Your model's posture and facial expression make it look like she's quietly resigned herself to whatever is about to happen. Since it looks like things are not going well for her, this picture would be stronger if she showed more emotion. Since the eyes and mouth are two important sources of emotional queues, blindfolding your model reduces my ability to sympathize with her. Increasing the amount of light on her face would improve the shot as well.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 05/12/2005 12:14:45 PM
If that's how your dreams start off, what a bummer. As a photo, though, I like the lighting very much on the swords, and the contrast with the background is nice.
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 05/10/2005 06:31:31 PM
tarot cards?
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 05/10/2005 07:44:44 AM
Inspired by tarot? I think this is just excellent, the interpretation was well done!
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 05/07/2005 10:05:11 PM
Cool concept but seems overly staged in this composition with the curvy swords and blueish lighting.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 05/07/2005 03:06:16 PM
Scary Much to a nightmare
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 05/06/2005 09:22:58 AM
Meaningful, well composed, lighting is good, overall a great shot, well done!
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 05/06/2005 05:37:12 AM
interesting concept for theme, pro quality, nice lighting, b&w's good, color superb, great lines
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 05/06/2005 05:15:49 AM
Good lighting and well done
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 05/05/2005 11:26:28 PM
freaky dream Nice effect
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 05/05/2005 09:46:13 PM
very original and nice technical work :)
  Photographer found comment helpful.


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