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2000: The Year of the Dragon
2000: The Year of the Dragon
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Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Chinese Zodiac (Advanced Editing I)
Camera: Olympus C-5050Z
Location: My bedroom
Date: Jan 24, 2004
Aperture: F1.8
ISO: 125
Shutter: 1/8 sec
Galleries: Animals
Date Uploaded: Jan 24, 2004

 Dragons tend to be popular individuals who are always full of life and enthusiasm, with a reputation for being fun-loving. They make good priests, artists and politicians.

Famous people born in the Year Of The Dragon:
Vidal Sassoon, Fats Domino, Bob Monkhouse, Jimmy Tarbuck, Al Pacino.

Basically printed out a shot of the sky, then placed the dragon in front & snapped some shots. Spent oodles of time cloning & healing the shadow out so it appeared authentic. Auto levels check, a bit of sharpen & depeckle, hues/sats, added border & cropped.

Statistics
Place: 61 out of 77
Avg (all users): 4.5855
Avg (commenters): 5.8333
Avg (participants): 4.3500
Avg (non-participants): 4.7391
Views since voting: 1064
Votes: 152
Comments: 8
Favorites: 0

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 02/05/2004 02:23:01 PM
The dragon is ready to fly away, just into the space between clouds, but yet he can fry you if you step forward any further. :-)) The dragon is hot - the sky is cool.

I gave this shot +6 and wonder why did it fall back so much?
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
01/27/2004 12:53:29 PM
cool idea, statue against a pic or print out maybe? wallpaper? I'm not sure, but it's too grainy, then again...it has a very retro 70's look that looks intential and I like it alot. Very Bruce Lee.
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 01/27/2004 10:15:15 AM
Nice background and framing. The dragon looks to be a bit overlit. Good entry.
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 01/25/2004 09:24:35 PM
Nice idea, pretty good execution. I love how the statuette loses all sense of its real size in this composition. I can't make out the head of the dragon very well for some reason and that's frustrating. I love the colors.
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 01/25/2004 06:27:27 PM
I like the wb, tinting the clouds with the red of the fire breath. A nice touch. I wonder, though, if a deep dof wouldn't have helped, as I feel that the clouds needed to be a touch more in focus, less bokeh. 6
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 01/25/2004 03:06:40 PM
Very nice composition and colors...nicely done. 9
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 01/24/2004 11:25:18 PM
I think a nice cropping would've made this photo so much nicer.
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 01/24/2004 07:58:35 PM
Good composition. The clouds have a magenta tint which is probably intentional. The foreground subject looks hazy on my monitor.
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