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Dance above the Sky
Dance above the Sky
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Challenge: Grace (Classic Editing)
Camera: HP PhotoSmart 318
Location: My office, Dunakeszi (Hungary)
Date: Oct 23, 2003
Aperture: 2,8
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/3
Galleries: Performance, Still Life
Date Uploaded: Oct 23, 2003

 I lighted her - ~12cm tall porcelain ballerina - with a small table lamp from above and with a small candle from the left side. I used a black paperboard as background and a sky-patterned paperboard under a flat glass (in order to gain a reflection and simulate the starry night sky). For some advises during the All Alone challenge, I tried not to center her with such a geometric precision. I wonder whether you like this new composition, and I hope she is graceful enough to meet the challenge. :-) I am very curious about your comments on this photo.

PhotoShop: crop, level.
NeatImage: noise reduction and sharpen.

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Place: 125 out of 197
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Views since voting: 1009
Votes: 242
Comments: 12
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AuthorThread
 11/07/2003 11:26:12 AM
Thank you all for your comments! Kiwiness, especially your kind comments mean me a lot, thank you very much! I really got a huuuge amount of encouraging now. :-)

Message edited by author 2003-11-07 18:02:57.
 Comments Made During the Challenge
11/02/2003 02:42:09 PM
Given your title, I would say the reflection goes against what you were trying to do.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 10/31/2003 03:00:32 PM
if the surface was non-reflective it would probably look more like a starry sky if that's what you were trying to do.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 10/31/2003 08:44:16 AM
theme : 1/3
lighting: 2/3
overall quality: 2/4 *I think it would be nice if the white specks continued into the background
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 10/31/2003 07:16:09 AM
Nice idea for the challenge. If you could have eliminated the reflection, the shot would have been more "believable".
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 10/31/2003 01:03:45 AM
Nice effect there, I like!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 10/30/2003 05:48:43 AM
Very nice idea and well executed. Did you try to mask the pedestal, so to show the dancer directly on the dark floor.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 10/30/2003 05:24:44 AM
is that Tipp-Ex?
 10/30/2003 04:04:22 AM
We chose similar subject :). I would improve lighting and sharpness. The dancer is too off-sided for my taste
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 10/29/2003 08:00:29 AM
I tried to find a real ballerina for this challenge and couldn't. At least you found one. I like the composition but I think I would have liked to have seen softer light used. Just my opinion.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 10/28/2003 11:43:20 PM
I like the composition, although I think it would be more pleasing to the eye without the 'stars', just the reflection on the black
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 10/28/2003 11:37:52 PM
Nice pic, well taken technically. The lighting is spot on and I like the way you've included all that negative space in the direction the ballerina is moving (8)
  Photographer found comment helpful.


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