Grande Finalé
by GeneralE

Comment by theSaj:
er um...yeah...i guess we gotta hand it to you

Grande Finalé
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Comment by blondmcfly:
Cute concept, original for sure.

Grande Finalé
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Comment by BobsterLobster:
Doesn't convey live music to me.

Grande Finalé
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Comment by abimalech:
Not sure how this meets the challenge. The shot is much to grainy and out of focus.

Grande Finalé
by GeneralE

Comment by claireee:
good idea, don't like the effect though

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Comment by lshles:
A subtle twist on a more obvious humor. Good choice to represent the idea.

Grande Finalé
by GeneralE

Comment by mystical_princess:
this just doesn't have the feel it should too me, maybe if I saw more of the arm so the hand would be making a statement

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Comment by Art Roflmao:
Figaro figaro figaro!

1968
by GeneralE

Comment by GeneralE:

Originally posted by woutje: I instantly feel the time period so good for you on capturing the challenge. You have an impossible dynamic range to capture here. I see a piece of the white cloth that is blown out and parts of the gun have no detail in the black. I would have like to have seen more details in the gun, without getting any brighter on the cloth.

Give the "impossible" tonal range, I have deliberately "gone to extremes" in the tonal range, partly in keeping with the growing extremism of the times, partly to make parts of the image disappear (which some compained about) to represent the "unknown" that we were facing in that time of turnmoil.

And, partly I did it to disguise that I used a really cheap plastic gun as my prop, and I wanted the parts of it people could see to look somewhat real--that little "Made in China" imprint just detracts a bit too much from the atmosphere ....

See the notes for the reasons I though a gun was a pretty good symbol for the year.

Grande Finalé
by GeneralE

Comment by donniev:
Finally! Someone who didn't just take a glorified snapshot of a band! Thank you.