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Proof by Analog Clock (how often do you see that?)
Proof by Analog Clock (how often do you see that?)
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Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: 4:00-5:00 a.m. (Basic Editing III)
Camera: Canon EOS-10D
Lens: Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 USM Macro
Location: my apartment -- Seattle, WA
Date: Dec 8, 2005
Aperture: 2.8
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/125
Date Uploaded: Dec 13, 2005

 I don't expect this image to do much at all... I had intended to go out and do a "real" shoot for this (my first) challenge submission, but it just didn't happen, so going with this one capture that I got when I happened to notice that it was between the hours of 4 and 5am, and I was awake. :-)

The picture is of my 24-hour analog clock, and thus I figure is somewhat unique just because not that many folks (that I know, anyway) have 24-hour analog clocks... so, it's an analog clock that actually shows that it's 4-something _AM_, not just any 4-something.

Editing was done with open source tools... rotated slightly, and applied curves using the gimp. Everything is very repeatable (most stuff is in a Makefile, and the curves settings are saved to a file).

So, here goes nothing... my first dpchallenge submission.

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Place: 99 out of 115
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
12/20/2005 12:50:14 PM
Nice idea
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 12/20/2005 03:57:03 AM
looks like 11:30 to me by military time.
 12/20/2005 02:09:28 AM
Nice clock, but you need to develop your photographic eye. Did you think about the texture on the wall? The shadow cast by your light source? The glare caused by the light source? All these things take away from this shot. But the main question is why would we want to look at a centered composition of a clock?What story does it tell? 'Look Ma, I met the challenge' is just not enough! Photography like this is perhaps good enough if you want to sell something on Ebay. If you want to be a photographer, look at textures, colours, composition, emotions. Tell us a story! Draw us in. Show us life.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 12/17/2005 03:38:37 PM
Resembles too much like a snap shop.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 12/17/2005 02:53:15 PM
A genius subject. I have always prefered the twenty-four hour clock and have had a hard time getting readjusted to the dual twelve hour system used here in the US. Brilliant. 9
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 12/17/2005 02:43:52 PM
thanks for showing me the clock but wheres the challenge in it
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 12/17/2005 08:39:20 AM
Interesting and unusual clock but, to my taste, not a very interesting or unusual image. Doesn't hold my attention.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 12/17/2005 05:50:26 AM
Nothing here really grabs your attention.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 12/16/2005 09:14:14 PM
Nice clock photo, just lacks a bit of creativity.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 12/16/2005 03:52:04 PM
Oh so boring.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 12/16/2005 03:57:05 AM
In this contest, you see that quite often.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 12/15/2005 04:44:00 PM
Not very often!! :) Nice and clear shot!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 12/15/2005 04:22:33 PM
nice. 6
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 12/15/2005 07:47:35 AM
I must be reading this wrong. It looks like 10:29 pm to me.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 12/14/2005 05:44:00 PM
Sorry, but doesn't that thing say that it's five minutes till 12:00? Maybe I'm wrong.
 12/14/2005 05:14:48 PM
Nice clean shot that obviously meets the challenge. It does lack a bit of wow factor though.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 12/14/2005 06:09:37 AM
This says 4-5am? I guess I don't understand how to read them then. Regardless, this might have benefited from something else included in the picture with the clock as an aside.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 12/13/2005 07:37:41 PM
i can barey see the hour hand. This meets the challenge, but is lacking in the creativity department. I am curious as to why you did not shoot the clock straight on if you intended it to be full frame centered?
  Photographer found comment helpful.


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