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02/28/2006 11:48:37 AM |
I think the properly controversial has less of a sense of deliberate provocation and more of a genuine alternative world-view than this shot has. I don't find it to be particularly enlightening - yet it has that quality of photography that shouts out that 'this has a message for you'.
It's easy as anything to have a go at the technicalitites, certainlny for this dpc community - it doesn't have the technicolour pop, the tidiness of design, the clean presentation (look at all that unneccasry dust around the edges of heart, for heaven's sake). Most other technical stuff is fine here - you know, the old DOF, focus, detail and all that.
But hell, the most distressing thing about it is that your non-dairy creamer just doesn't look the slightest bit like cocaine. More like wood shavings.
Now why is that? One, large, part of that is the granularity of that material. This stuff is just too flakey, rather than the almost impossibly small grains of the 'real thing'. It's also, as someone has observed, an impossibly white stuff, and in this photo it just doesn't have that clarity of whiteness; that's some function of levels/curves and processing - even though your white points are there, it would be possible to even out the movement towards the mid-tones - here, I think that process is too quick - thus the oddness of the highlights on that rolled paper. Also, arguably, the social perception of the drug, and the usual presentation of it, and the lifestyle associations of it, perhaps require something a touch more considered that this approach?
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02/21/2006 06:52:05 AM |
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02/19/2006 03:07:29 PM |
| Excellent black and white, I really do love your work here. |
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02/19/2006 06:42:31 AM |
OD? alrighty...
Nice technical shot, probably could have compressed the levels a bit to make the blacks a bit more black. The cocaine doesn't look as white as it should be.
concept is poor. |
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02/18/2006 11:08:06 PM |
Composition: 6 - Technical: 6 - Creativity: 7 - Appeal: 3 - Challenge: 4 - Overall Calculated Average Score: 5
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02/18/2006 04:59:38 PM |
Controversial!
Interesting take on the challenge. I find the dark/light sections on the mirror/glass distracting, but the exposure seems bang on, as does the focus. The only thing that would help this for me would be a banknote instead of plain paper.
Hope it does well for you. |
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02/18/2006 04:40:41 PM |
| Somebody's having a happy valentine's day. |
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02/18/2006 07:00:24 AM |
| Hells love on the mirror! Get help before it is to late. |
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02/17/2006 09:13:14 AM |
| Is this a heart of drugs instead of a line? I'm a bit confused as I don't quite get the concept. On the photo front I like the texture and the black and white presentation. |
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02/16/2006 06:56:49 PM |
| an excellent anti-drug message..... very well done! |
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02/16/2006 05:25:06 AM |
| Nice DOF. maybe a tad more contrast? |
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02/15/2006 06:18:24 PM |
| I really like this, im not sure why, maybe its the simplicity. |
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02/15/2006 04:11:36 PM |
| veeeeryyyyy cleaver !!!!! |
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02/15/2006 11:55:22 AM |
| no they are meant to be shared.....10 for balls |
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02/15/2006 08:26:31 AM |
| ohhhhh, very anti valentine, i like |
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02/15/2006 03:36:21 AM |
| you broke all kinds of rules! |
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02/15/2006 02:35:58 AM |
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02/15/2006 02:25:47 AM |
| I was wondering when someone was gonna use some cocaine as a heart .... Oh wait, was that a pixie stick??? ... sorry!! :) Regardless, this is intriguing! |
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02/14/2006 10:37:12 PM |
| but if the mirror breaks, it's 7 years bad luck...interesting interpretation. you must live in my town. ;) |
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