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Walking the path, asking Castaneda about don Juan, missing peyote...WAKE UP!
Walking the path, asking Castaneda about don Juan, missing peyote...WAKE UP!
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Challenge: Dreams II (Basic Editing)
Camera: Pentax *ist DL2
Lens: Pentax DA 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 AF
Location: Unconsciousland
Date: Jul 8, 2007
Aperture: 10
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/1000
Date Uploaded: Jul 9, 2007

 Another sub 5...Let's see if it will survive the 4.
I like what Gimp did to the image. There's resizing (downsizing), a crop, a channel mixer, some sharpening, resizing (upsizing), and the original is in focus, but this is out. But, I like it, because my dreams are never in focus. And they're monochrome, also.

Statistics
Place: 123 out of 182
Avg (all users): 5.1257
Avg (commenters): 7.6667
Avg (participants): 4.9583
Avg (non-participants): 5.1852
Views since voting: 707
Views during voting: 260
Votes: 183
Comments: 8
Favorites: 0

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 05/09/2009 10:34:19 PM
This is interesting in the way the steps seem to just float in the background, which makes it seem as though they go right off across the sky.
You got a Posthumous comment too, how cool is that?
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 07/23/2007 03:59:53 PM
Greetings from the critique club!

Overall this a pretty good idea that was pretty well executed.

Judging from the effect you were looking for I would say go with a really large aperture and get lower. This would then look like a nice sharp foreground with the image softening as you go back. The path takes you into the frame so a lower angle would emphasize that.

The black and white conversion works well for the challenge and the image but it is quite dark. There's nothing wrong with that but there might be more visual appeal if you played with levels and/or curves a bit to get greater contrast.
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 07/19/2007 04:52:57 AM
Thanks for the visit and the comments and the votes. I'm surprised, I expected this to do worse, maybe struggle between 3 and 4, but never to be 5+.

Anyhow, now I know what to do for Dreams III; I'll make sure that there are a pair of legs there, in a funny angle, no face, no torso, just a pair of legs with funny cowboy boots.

Thanks again.
 07/18/2007 07:18:36 PM
very dreamlike, very weird-old-movie-like. great fulfillment of challenge.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
07/16/2007 11:45:46 AM
It is as much the title of the topic as the subject matter itself.
Very cool. Thanks.
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 07/14/2007 10:47:18 AM
Ha ha - love it!!! Very experimental and oozing 50's art house!!
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 07/11/2007 09:28:28 PM
Good title.
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 07/11/2007 03:38:46 AM
Nice shot.
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