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For Some a Nightmare, For Others a Salvation
For Some a Nightmare, For Others a Salvation
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Challenge: Dreams and Nightmares (Classic Editing)
Camera: Olympus C-4000Z
Location: Basement
Date: Oct 4, 2003
Aperture: 2.8
ISO: 400
Shutter: 1/10
Galleries: Emotive, Black and White
Date Uploaded: Oct 5, 2003

This took some time, I had to use the right lighting to make sure my hand wasn't red so that I could desaturate the color in it. Turned out OK.

Statistics
Place: 43 out of 112
Avg (all users): 5.5097
Avg (commenters): 6.6429
Avg (participants): 5.3827
Avg (non-participants): 5.6486
Views since voting: 1287
Votes: 155
Comments: 16
Favorites: 1 (view)


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10/12/2003 10:41:06 AM
Salvation to me!
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10/10/2003 10:38:19 PM
OUCH!!!! I've come back to this shot several times trying to figure out exactly what bothers me about it and I think it's the coloring. The hands are dirty which they should be representing what they do but there is too much red, I think less would have been more on this shot.
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10/10/2003 12:26:50 PM
For others . . . ketchup! Just kidding. I take it from the title that this is a messianic photo, and infers allusions to Christ? Interesting pose and effect. You might try experimenting with different points of view and other poses to get the allusion solid, even without the title.
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10/10/2003 12:36:05 AM
Oh man that is gorey. Very realistic, but needs more light. Overall it's too dark I think. Also for maximum effect I think I'd have tilted it 90 degrees to the right to make the hand face downwards.... that would explain all the blood on the hand/palm, etc.
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10/08/2003 10:55:58 PM
If you are trying to depict the nail through the hand, and thus Jesus, it would have been more effective if there were some rough wood somewhere in the background and just the one hand in the picture. With the current composition, I feel sympathy for the injury, but it could be anyone. There is a disconnect between the title and the image. Technically good. maybe too much blood of the wrong consistency for it to look real.
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10/08/2003 10:15:51 PM
Nice picture. I'm glad to be on the salvation side. Thank you Jesus!
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10/08/2003 07:51:34 PM
powerful photo..if the environment (donĀ“t like the black background) had been somthing else i wold have give this photo much higher grade. - 6
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10/07/2003 02:05:51 PM
I, too consider ketchup a salvation. Seriously though, this picture would have more punch if the hand were dangling along the side of a porcelin bath tub, blood dripping on the floor. That simple pose would show the viewer that the subject is dead or dying and give a sense of direction. RIght now the image shows a red mess. It looks less like a suicide attempt and more like finger painting. IMHO.
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10/07/2003 12:10:12 PM
quite good lookin blood!
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10/07/2003 11:23:51 AM
Very cool! The blood looks Real! Looks like the hands are dirty and bloody Thats very cool! Mabey you could have left a bit more space above the thum? But anyway Very cool :) - 8
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10/07/2003 06:43:31 AM
Jak.
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10/06/2003 02:23:43 PM
Great interpretation. A cross in the back ground and ya got an 11.
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10/06/2003 12:46:16 PM
I love this! Very powerful, true and realistic statement conveyed. Good job.
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10/06/2003 07:27:37 AM
Eww! Man that blood even looks real! And the skin on the hand looks .... naaaa this isn't real is it? If that is fake then you've made an awesome job of making it look authentic.
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10/06/2003 05:54:46 AM
Not sure I like your title. Very realistic picture though. (9)
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10/06/2003 01:51:39 AM
No question you convey a sense of a badly bleeding hand....but from where and why? if because of a slit wrist or sucide, ones nightmare. but no clarity. The image has good tones, focus and use of thirds but can not get a sense of what has happened...hope this helps:) 4
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