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Stealing the sun
Stealing the sun
thelucas


Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Darkness (Basic Editing III)
Camera: Canon PowerShot A85
Location: EU
Date: Jun 11, 2005
Aperture: f2.8
ISO: 50
Shutter: 1/14
Galleries: Emotive, Nature
Date Uploaded: Jun 11, 2005

 again one of those tricky-faky photos. The background is actually another picture displayed on my notebook. Did some minor contrast/brightness postwork + crop,frame.
Disqualification Details
Literal representations of existing artworks, including your own, are not permitted. Please review the challenge submission rules.

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Comments: 49
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 12/26/2005 03:48:05 AM
I can't believe you fooled soo many people with this picture from the net....
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 06/26/2005 04:03:41 PM
hmmmm

Message edited by author 2005-06-27 15:17:27.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
06/19/2005 05:38:27 AM
hard to think this hasn't been edited a lot in photoshop. if it hasnt, excellent job! im not voting just as to be more objective because i cant tell.
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 06/19/2005 05:13:52 AM
I recommended this for DQ as it's too good to be true ;)

I'm hoping this image is legit, though. The only problem I have with the shot is that there appear to be fingers on the left hand side (?!). Did you achieve the dramatic contrasts with curves and selective colour? I'll be interested to know what this looked like originally.

Good luck with this challenge, a dramatic image! A 9 from me because of the weird black shaped silhouette on the left which detracts from the image. Good luck!

Alex
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 06/19/2005 01:20:00 AM
Not often I give the top vote to a picture which has a finger in front of the lens ;-) Dramatic maelstrom which really gets to the heart of this challenge
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 06/18/2005 09:30:48 PM
Fantastic content and rich colors. Foreground objects are a bit confusing and sort of off balance the photo. Good job.
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 06/18/2005 08:52:35 PM
this is breathtaking!
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 06/18/2005 06:46:57 PM
Awesome shot.
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 06/18/2005 05:44:40 AM
Beautiful use of color. Excellent use of rule of thirds. Good exposure the lightning looks silvery -- difficult to pull off. -- 10
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 06/18/2005 01:44:39 AM
Wow, stunning.
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 06/18/2005 12:44:07 AM
very nice. Hey, i dont see the rating scale.
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 06/18/2005 12:27:01 AM
AWESOME!!! Amazing shot and colors! Now teach me how to do that!
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 06/17/2005 11:24:21 PM
One word - 'wow'.
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 06/17/2005 07:48:53 PM
awsome shot! good luck!
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 06/17/2005 06:38:44 PM
Wow! Love Lighting shots.
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 06/17/2005 05:53:08 PM
Wow...
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 06/17/2005 02:36:28 PM
A good surrealistic image regardless how it was achieved.

Having taken a lot of lightining images myself it is obviously this is not natural. Certainly there will be voters that feel you are trying to pull something over on them and will vote it lower because of that.

It appears there are fingers or something that is not a natural gelogic feature coming in from the left side of the frame that is alluded to in the title. Be intersting to see how voters react to this image.
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 06/17/2005 01:14:23 PM
Very effective. Good luck. Seems the sun is strange.
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 06/17/2005 03:56:05 AM
Hmm, I somehow goofed and my comment wasn't accepted, so here I go again...
This is my favourite shot of the challenge, a marvellous catch! Adding to my favourites. Awesome, simply awesome. Good luck on a Blue Ribbon.
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 06/16/2005 10:23:03 PM
Wow! That's some serious weather!
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 06/16/2005 10:04:14 PM
If this is not a photograph of a drawing.. it deserves to ribbon! I score it a 10

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 06/16/2005 08:35:52 PM
Spectacular storm photo. A light (ening) vs dark (stormy clouds) concept is what i myself feel in this image. I hope i am clear on this but, WOW look at that storm!
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 06/16/2005 07:06:41 PM
This looks really cool.
The dark black on the far left is a little distracting though (it looks like a hand)
I still gave it a nine.
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 06/16/2005 05:47:55 PM
Wow!
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 06/16/2005 05:24:01 PM
Wow! I give this a 9. I never give out anything above an 8. I am speechless.

Wow.
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 06/16/2005 04:57:00 PM
wow, beautiful...though it looks like someone has a hand in front of the camera! (maybe?)
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 06/16/2005 01:17:19 PM
WOW :)
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 06/16/2005 12:22:29 PM
great photo....what a capture.....I am giving you a 10 without a doubt!!
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 06/16/2005 08:58:12 AM
great timing
not too sure about the unclarity of the red areas
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 06/16/2005 08:34:13 AM
? how did you got it ? and where is the place
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 06/16/2005 05:39:32 AM
Perhaps cropping out the left could have improved it, those fingers(?) are disturbing., Otherwise very cool!
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 06/16/2005 01:03:54 AM
thisi is anexcellent interpretation 10
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 06/15/2005 08:17:38 PM
where did you take this? the colors in the sky are unbelievable.
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 06/15/2005 07:28:55 PM
If the hand wasn't in the photo this would have been a stronger entry.
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 06/15/2005 12:06:31 PM
this is an amazing image. too bad your fingers are in it.
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 06/15/2005 11:37:29 AM
WOW Great catch! Very colorful! 10
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 06/15/2005 10:41:03 AM
Wow !
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 06/15/2005 08:34:44 AM
Wow thats amazing!
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 06/15/2005 08:33:14 AM
I don't get it - is this a real photograph that you took - or something else? ...
The question is: You took an image at sunset (or sunrise) with that bolt of lightning ... and a hand was in from of the camera??? ... Or is this an image of another image - with a hand in front of it.
The lightnight looks a little radical to actually be reall ... and in the last week - so I'm just curious if I'm missing something!
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 06/15/2005 06:30:51 AM
Wow, amazing caputure and color.
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 06/15/2005 04:27:38 AM
Amazing lightning photo - I'm really impressed by your timing & perfect capture.
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 06/15/2005 03:37:30 AM
Wow
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 06/15/2005 01:31:39 AM
Just amazing.
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 06/15/2005 12:56:51 AM
Looks like the World is ending. Nice capture.
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 06/14/2005 11:07:26 PM
Brilliant - just fabulous! The only 10.
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 06/14/2005 11:00:44 PM
very cool lightning shot. Wish you could have toned down the sun though...it's just not helping you here. Still, this was a good shot - 8
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 06/14/2005 09:53:14 PM
wow!!!!!! gr8 moment!!!!
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 06/14/2005 09:13:57 PM
too much saturation in there but nice moment... i was wondering how much shutter speed you got on this pic... hehe 8
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 06/14/2005 08:47:56 PM
Oh my! This is really a cool picture. I wish the sun were not quite so blurred but other than that - really fantastic. I love the deep rich reds and red oranges and the lightning is really a great touch. Nice!
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