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Challenge: Self Portrait VI (Advanced Editing V*)
Camera: Canon EOS-300D Rebel
Lens: Sigma 20mm f/1.8 EX Aspherical DG DF RF for Canon
Location: @home
Date: Dec 4, 2007
Aperture: f/5.6
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/200s
Galleries: Black and White, Self Portrait
Date Uploaded: Dec 4, 2007

 I predict this will not do well. The DPC-crowd doesn't like this: too dark, perspective distortion, tilted verticals, you name it. Expecting to score below 5 here. So why submit it? I like it. One or two viewers might like it. That should do it.

The title is a sub-title of a song by tool, has nothing to do with anything (which is a 'lyric' by the Pixies). It just sounds nice. Any resemblence with people named Hofmann or similar is purely coincedence. :P


Statistics
Place: 160 out of 241
Avg (all users): 5.3109
Avg (commenters): 6.0000
Avg (participants): 5.1667
Avg (non-participants): 5.4010
Views since voting: 763
Views during voting: 435
Votes: 312
Comments: 17
Favorites: 0

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 02/17/2008 05:26:36 PM
I like this shot very much. But I like dark things, this one speaks to me.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 12/27/2007 01:43:12 AM
Post Challenge:

Thanks all for the great comments. I agree with the comments on the reddish gray, shouldn´t have done that. It is also true that there is some pixelation near my face. That wall isn´t even, and with resizing came the pixelation. I should have taken care of it in PP.

I was right about the crowds not loving this, but I am surprised to see there´s still quite a number of people that actually like this shot. I also liked the fact that I left people in wonder with the nonsense title. :P

Message edited by author 2007-12-27 06:43:38.
 12/22/2007 04:56:29 PM
I think you did a nice job with this - I voted it a 7. I like the lighting and how the guy seems exhausted from reading. As for non-vertical verticals, the main effect to me is to make it look more ominous, as the bookshelf seems to be about to fall over on him. Only you can decide if you like that or not.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 12/17/2007 12:39:14 AM
Ik had je niet eens herkend! :o!!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 12/12/2007 01:42:42 AM
an excellent, quiet and subtle image.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 Comments Made During the Challenge
12/10/2007 08:43:15 PM
Are you talking about Albert Hofmann, inventer of LSD? I like your pose here, you really appear 'sick of reading' or sick of other things. Nice moody feeling here. BB
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 12/10/2007 05:18:51 PM
I love how my eye is led to that little corner of despair.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 12/09/2007 11:09:57 AM
Nice photo, nice idea. I would do b&w instead of red-ish gray, and also I would show myself more, you are sitting too close to edge of the photo. also I would keep bookshelf a bit darker on top right corner. Nice photo overall :)
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 12/09/2007 09:59:20 AM
I thought this was intriguing--the shaft of light really works for me, and the title is evocative in a good way. But I'm a sucker for Narrative Tease...
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 12/09/2007 05:08:14 AM
It's all his fault.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 12/05/2007 06:29:15 PM
No, Hofmann's innocent! It Ruddiger you need to go after.
Unless it's the other Hofmann you mean, inventor of LSD.

;-)
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 12/05/2007 12:25:35 PM
like it and would rate it higher but don´t thing it is a portriad
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 12/05/2007 11:47:32 AM
Had to google Hoffman; am assuming you are referencing the one who created LSD. Not a terribly trippy picture, though. You appear to be holding a letter and maybe sunk down in despair over its contents, but there's an awful lot of bookcase and that must be there for a reason ... maybe I found the wrong Hoffman to make sense of this?
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 12/05/2007 11:44:57 AM
cool perspective shot - but there is some unusual pixelation issues on your face that are distracting
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 12/05/2007 11:20:43 AM
Looks like you have been busy. I think this is a great idea, but im sure many are thinking its not a portrait. But if this is who you are, its a portrait. Nice work.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 12/05/2007 04:52:47 AM
I love the composition but personally I don't like the toning - I think it might work better as a black and white without the red cast.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 12/05/2007 02:49:39 AM
Hey, nice bookcase, but where's the... OH there you are.
  Photographer found comment helpful.


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