oh, last day entry ... thank god it's sunday so i can improvise a little bit, about the photo ... i was looking around where to put letters D,P and C that i cut out from the paper when suddenly in my bedroom i saw rainbow colored reflection from the vase on window which was under direct sunlight, i immediately glued the letters near the reflection and shooted few photos, when i looked at the photos i was not satisfied so i decided to go with hewavy postprocessing, and i ended up with this ... :-) the title came later of course, LOL
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Date/time original 7.5.2006 15:43:34
Date/time digitized 7.5.2006 15:43:34
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My first impression of this shot is that it is one of a handful that doesn't look contrived (with the title) to fit the challenge, and could have easily been a poster for a 50's sci-fi movie.
Compositionally, I rarely envision comets going straight up or down, though I suppose they probably do. Therefore, I think rotating this 30 - 40 degrees to the right so that the comet is going up and right or the other way and down and left, would have given the shot a bit more dynamicism (if that is a word). It wouldn't have seemed quite so static-y then. Also, I don't know that the letters add anything and it may have been better just to leave them off.
Technically, I like the black and white for this. Also, the texture of the wall gives it a sky-like feeling in a weird kind of way. The bw is perfect.
This is one of those shots that when you first see it go "gah. what was s/he thinking," but after looking at it for a minute or two, it is really kinda clever with a lot of potential.
I want to dislike this and dismiss it, but I just can't. It's really so awful that it's good, and I'm sure that the movie it's promoting would be every bit as wonderful, too. One of those made-in-a-weekend art house classics, probably with Samuel L Jackson working for free in a supporting role. I'd see it, for sure. 6.
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