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Battery Life On Mars!
Battery Life On Mars!
wingyisleeds


Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: AA Battery (Basic Editing)
Camera: Canon EOS-300D Rebel
Lens: Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6
Location: Home, Hull, UK
Date: Dec 20, 2006
Aperture: f4.5
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/8
Galleries: Digital Art, Science and Technology
Date Uploaded: Dec 21, 2006

Taken on my granite kitchen worktop. Mars is actually a reflection of the ceiling light and it was purely a mistake, was just going to shoot Battery Life, but when I saw this I thought what the hell..;-)

Shot in RAW
Levels, Curves, USM, Crop, re-size.

Thank you all for your comments ;-)

Statistics
Place: 59 out of 142
Avg (all users): 5.4185
Avg (commenters): 6.3333
Avg (participants): 4.8000
Avg (non-participants): 5.5591
Views since voting: 1102
Views during voting: 452
Votes: 270
Comments: 8
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01/09/2007 11:24:27 AM
Greetings from the Critique Club Keith!!

Well, how's that for coincidence!! Hope you are keeping well :o)

Composition:

I really like the idea you 'stumbled' across here. I may have been tempted to put the word 'life' in a semi circle around the 'planet' to give more of a 'life on' impact. Also,for me, I would like to have seen a little more clearly that the word 'Life' was made from batteries so possibly a different angle would have shown this offer better?

Technicals:

I'd like to know why you chose to use your kit lens and not your new macro for this challenge? I can't wait to see some macro stuff from you soon! This shot seems a little out of focus to me. Do you use a tripod? Also, although the colour on the 'planet' is good I think the lighting on the batteries is a bit dull and could possibly have benefited from a small lamp directly on them? (just my humble opinion!)

If you've got any questions about this critique, please feel free to contact me via the PM system.

- Natalya :o)
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01/05/2007 11:03:41 AM
Awesome! I didn't know this was yours!
I really liked this shot.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
01/02/2007 03:23:34 PM
Its cool how you've use the subject of the battery in a very non-traditional way. We can't tell that they're batteries, and that's actually a good thing here. However, it just doesn't make visual sense. Nothing is actually ON the planet in this picture, and it stumps me as to why a big L-I-F-E would be in space.
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12/31/2006 06:51:08 PM
Nice! I love how you put the batteries saying LIFE! (9)
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12/30/2006 11:03:06 PM
Cute idea. Almost forgot for a minute that this is a AA Battery challenge when I was thinking about your setup for this. For the life of me I couldn't figure out what kind of pushpins you used. :D Couple of things that would make this stronger for me. The lighting, if more uniform across "LIFE", would be better IMO. The "stars" could stand to be more like pinpoints and lose the slight blur. Overall, nicely done. Good luck in the challenge.
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12/27/2006 09:35:55 PM
Geneuse idea althog it could be in a better focus.
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12/27/2006 03:20:00 PM
Looks more like Mars on life, but I like it!
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12/27/2006 01:11:22 AM
I took a shot with a similar setup for this challenge, so I know what you went through trying to get things looking right. It's a neat idea, and I think given a better setup this picture would have done pretty well. Unfortunately, though, things are not in focus and a little rough on the eyes.
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