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You Could h-EAR a Pin Drop
You Could h-EAR a Pin Drop
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Challenge: Unrelatedness (Advanced Editing IV)
Camera: Canon PowerShot S2 IS
Location: My room
Date: Oct 1, 2006
Aperture: 2.7
ISO: 400
Shutter: 1/60
Galleries: Snapshot
Date Uploaded: Oct 1, 2006

 This is awful. I had the idea, but the execution was terrible. My only hope is that everone else's is horrible too.

To do this I cut a hole in some poster board, put an old black shirt over it, cut another hole, then stuck my ear thru the holes and drop a pin NEAR my ear. It was all very frustrating and difficult because I had to lay down my head in a certain way while keeping my ear visible, press the timer, then drop the pin without it landing in my ear. I took about 200 shots of this, and then when I look at them there was SO much noise! I compensated by darkening the background and trying to smooth out the ear because it was suuuper-grainy. I also had to clean up the pin while still keeping the motion look it originally had. ugh.

Also, this is my first challenge with my new camera and I feel like I am doing it NO justice with this shot. Oh well, I'll just have to wait and see, but I'm pretty sure I'm going to regret this one.

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Place: 113 out of 134
Avg (all users): 4.8471
Avg (commenters): 5.2500
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Views since voting: 727
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Votes: 170
Comments: 8
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
10/07/2006 06:38:25 PM
like the idear, wish the transision was a little smoother between the black and the ear. good luck
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 10/06/2006 08:25:28 AM
A bit contrived. Does meet the challenge, though.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 10/04/2006 04:46:26 PM
Like the concept and this meets the challenge perfectly. Some noise reduction would have help especially since there are no fine details to worry about damaging.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 10/03/2006 01:52:37 PM
*plink* Good idea, must have been difficult to set up. Nice.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 10/02/2006 12:25:44 PM
The ear could do with a bit more focus, good idea though.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 10/01/2006 09:55:15 PM
Unsharp and noisy, title doesn't do it for me either, sorry ... but, it does meet the challenge :-)
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 10/01/2006 09:27:51 PM
Nice use of two unrelated objects.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 10/01/2006 08:32:14 PM
quirky and clever
  Photographer found comment helpful.


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