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Photographer's Comments |
Challenge: Free Study 2010-03 (Advanced Editing VII)
Camera: Nikon D3
Lens: Nikon AF-S Zoom-Nikkor 28-70mm f/2.8D IF-ED
Location: Kirkland, Washington USA
Date: Mar 28, 2010
Aperture: f/14
ISO: 800
Shutter: 1/5
Galleries: Abstract, Emotive
Date Uploaded: Mar 28, 2010
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Photographer’s Notes
Six months ago, I found this stick, which had floated ashore near here. It’s too small to be called driftwood, and “driftstick” doesn’t seem right either. I left it where I found it, but it haunted me. Again a few months ago, I found the stick.
I picked it up and this time and decided I would see if there is a photo hiding in my stick somewhere. My wife wants to use it for the handle of a purse she’s designing. So when I let it sit on the counter, or the corner of my desk … I had to be continually watchful over it. For months I’ve looked at it in different lighting, from different angles, under varying moods.
For 30 days, more or less, I’ll live on the lakeshore where I’ve lived for the past 6 years; where I found my stick. Today, I realize I’m running out of time. I’ve been sick for a while now – it colors my mood. I won’t be living here much longer. If I’m going to memorialize my stick, now is the time. If not now, when? I’ll miss living here.
Post Processing
• Convert from RAW (PSCS4 Camera Raw)
• Clean up Background (PSCS4 Clone Layer)
• Deepen Background (PSCS4 Masked Curves Mayer)
• Brighten Subject (PSCS4 Curves Layer)
• Convert to B&W (PSCS4 Channel Mixer Layer)
• Boost Contrast (PSCS4 Curves Layer)
• Dodge & Burn (PSCS4 Overlay Layer)
• Resize (Genuine Fractals)
• Sharpen (PSCS4 USM)
• Save for Web (PSCS4)
Camera Data
• Date: 2009/03/28
• Camera: Nikon D3
• Lens: Nikon AF-S Zoom-Nikkor 28-70mm f/2.8D IF-ED
• ISO: 800
• Aperture: f/14
• Shutter: 1/5 Seconds
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04/09/2010 12:33:35 PM |
| I love this photo and title, and your photographer's comments as well. I'm sorry to hear you have been sick. Feel better soon and keep up the good work (now let your wife make the purse). :-) |
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04/09/2010 11:30:15 AM |
Shame on you... for thinking outside the box and being uniquely creative... you should know better then to allow yourself to stray into such imaginative channels. Ten lashes for you for displaying your unwitting genius!!
Jo ;-))
Message edited by author 2010-04-09 15:30:56. |
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04/08/2010 04:16:20 AM |
| Deserved to place much higher. Texture and lines respond well to your treatment with light, providing a lot for the eye to see. Thanks for posting the back story. |
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04/07/2010 07:58:07 PM |
| Beautiful. Extra point for title. |
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04/05/2010 05:11:20 PM |
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04/05/2010 10:40:35 AM |
| Sorry, finding this a little uninteresting as subject material. On a technical note, the focal plane is really narrow with only the lower central area being sharply focused. |
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03/31/2010 08:25:58 PM |
this is really awesome .. such a powerful and different image, and i love how the distorted legs are not legs at all .. BRAVO .. !!..:)
wish i could'v said that better .!! .. but it really is art .. !!
i'm not voting yet .. :) |
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