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Challenge: Darkness (Basic Editing III)
Camera: Canon EOS-10D
Lens: Sigma 12-24mm f/4.5-5.6 EX Aspherical DG for Canon
Location: Christchurch, New Zealand
Date: Jun 14, 2005
Aperture: 5.6
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/30
Galleries: Abstract, Still Life
Date Uploaded: Jun 13, 2005

Second to last day before the challenge is closed - and the sun finally emerges from behind the clouds long enough for me to try this shot. I wanted to try and capture the interplay between the light coming through the venetian blinds and a complex shape - in this case a rocking chair.

Statistics
Place: 54 out of 373
Avg (all users): 5.7832
Avg (commenters): 7.4286
Avg (participants): 5.6212
Avg (non-participants): 5.9040
Views since voting: 914
Views during voting: 439
Votes: 309
Comments: 14
Favorites: 1 (view)


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 Comments Made During the Challenge
06/20/2005 06:23:51 PM
L Love the colors. superb graphic qualities. Great comp.Good Luck!
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06/20/2005 05:17:54 AM
A simply wonderfully beautiful composition. The blues are great. The lines generated by the blinds are terrific. You have an eye for a great capture.

It is unfortunate that some, perhaps even many, voters will have a tough time relating it to the darkness challenge topic and will vote it accordingly.

On the technical side there are only a couple compositional suggestions. I don't know if there is any way you could have changed things so that you could have lighting on the several darkened blinds near the top of the frame but it would have been more uniform and perhaps more balanced if you could.

There is a small dark triangle in the lower left corner of the image. It just feels like there should be more of it or that it be cropped out of the final image entirely. If you cropped it out completely just above where it hits the rocker shadow it would give much better balence to the bottom of the frame. If you included more of it then it might be best to extend it all the way to the rightmost corner. Whichever way looks best would work.

Kudos to you for a terrific image.
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06/20/2005 03:32:53 AM
Most creative of the bunch. Composition and technical execution are excellent. 9
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06/19/2005 05:21:36 PM
Here is how I broke down my score.
Content: 1/4
Composition: 2/2
Color/Light: 2/2
Clarity: 1/2
Total:6/10

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06/18/2005 07:23:32 PM
Visually striking & should be well supported by the voters. I'm still not sure what darkness means to you; presumably this isn't it? Nevertheless, it's a good looking photograph.
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06/17/2005 02:05:18 AM
The thing I like most about an image like this in a challenge about darkness is that it stimulates the brain or it does for me anyway. Good on you for thinking outside the square. I like your perspective & crop. Good luck
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06/16/2005 12:33:24 PM
Fantastic design statement. Great line and lighting. Meets challenge very well.
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06/16/2005 10:47:07 AM
great image... love it!
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06/16/2005 09:36:35 AM
The placement of the chair, the lines and the color work well - a very good photo.
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06/15/2005 12:36:51 PM
I love this picture. I think that the composition is beautiful, the light & shadows wonderful and I think it meets the challenge well (although there seems to be some in the forums who have a fairly strict interpretation of their own, so I'm assuming you may not be doing as well as I think you ought to.)
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06/15/2005 11:19:47 AM
Like the shadows.
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06/15/2005 09:15:14 AM
nice colors and frame, but where is the darkness
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06/15/2005 08:30:05 AM
Really nice use of shadow here. I like the blue toning of the shadow. Very nice.
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06/15/2005 07:00:20 AM
I like the use of lines, and how the shadow is deformed on the top of the chair. 8.
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