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Enigma
Enigma
violinist123


Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Black and White in Color (Advanced Editing IV*)
Camera: Canon EOS-350D Rebel XT
Lens: Sigma 105mm f/2.8 EX DG Macro for Canon
Location: USA
Date: Jul 21, 2006
Aperture: F4.5
ISO: 100
Shutter: 8s
Galleries: Abstract, Food and Drink
Date Uploaded: Jul 21, 2006

 1 egg, a small maglite flashlight and 2 paper envelopes. Made a cone out of tin foil to limit the light coming out of the flashlight. Aimed it at one envelope and moved the envelope around till I got the right angle of light on the egg. Used the other envelope to block the rest of the extraneous light. 8 second exposure.

Levels, curves, brightness contrast till I got the right mix of light and dark. Gaussian blur to smooth out the egg surface.

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Wow, hammered pretty bad. Took a chance on the blur and apparently did not make a good choice there. Comments about balance of negative space were correct of course. Due to my lame setup for this shot I couldn't crop it any differently to fix the composition. Oh well.

To the few that liked it - glad you did! :)

Statistics
Place: 215 out of 263
Avg (all users): 4.3909
Avg (commenters): 4.3636
Avg (participants): 4.4024
Avg (non-participants): 4.3851
Views since voting: 648
Views during voting: 324
Votes: 243
Comments: 13
Favorites: 0

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AuthorThread
 08/02/2006 06:29:49 AM
As promised in the black and white scores thread, you e-mailed me wanting a comment after the challenge. I am afraid I did not score this one very well. I did not get the point of the blur, and couldn't figure out why such a blurry image was entered. It did depict black and white very well. The lighting seemed to create a nice composition, but I did not get the image at all. Sorry for the lack of creative sense on my part.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
07/31/2006 06:32:33 PM
I like this a lot. My wife would probably sat that it is because it is vaguely breast-like but i like the mystery. {That's my story and I's sticking to it.) :) 7.
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 07/30/2006 12:44:05 AM
simple but outstanding glow control
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 07/29/2006 11:54:07 PM
Not sure what I'm looking at!
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 07/29/2006 07:01:54 PM
This doesn't hold my interest. Sure I can't tell what it is, but I wouldn't call it an enigma. Might just be a heavily shadowed egg that is out of focus.
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 07/29/2006 04:45:25 PM
I'm going to assume you intended to enter something so out of focus there's nothing to, well, focus my eyes on. So it was supposed to be abstract. As opposed to taking a blurry picture and entering it just for kicks.

Under that assumption, it's not striking me as a very interesting composition. And the left edge of the white thing is pretty centered, so there's not much negative space to contrast with the white area.

But I'll give you a 5 for the effort and idea.
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 07/28/2006 09:53:17 PM
Interesting shot.....I think I like it!
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 07/27/2006 04:28:49 PM
The light is very harsh. Almost makes the egg (I hope that's what it is) look blurred. If you look closely, you can see that the egg is very sharp, but the reflection of the light makes a haze around it.
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 07/27/2006 12:13:01 PM
Very very blurry. It's blurry enough that it looks purposely blurred, but it just doesn't suit me.
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 07/26/2006 03:02:47 PM
Cool abstract, but it's really not working for me. Just too much blur.
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 07/26/2006 02:49:01 PM
My guess is its an egg. I love the shadow play on the back. IMO if the image was not blurred it would be more dramatic.
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 07/26/2006 07:59:28 AM
Think it might be too out of focus.
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