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Comment by briansuh:
my gosh.. a belt and the title... it's pretty depressing.. but original from the other ones that i've seen so far. 7

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Comment by tyd:
oh my! you must have had a childhood like mine.

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Comment by Jenguin:
kind of scary, but i assume this is a symbol from people's childhoods (thankfully not mine). Interesting use of white space.. I think the belt is a bit too bright tho.. maybe if it had a bit more contrast or darkness to it? 8

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Comment by razwan:
I'm glad I'm not the only person to includea belt in my photo!

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Comment by lionelm:
Challenge:0 (should not need the title and very very long shot)
Picture :7
Framing :6
Result : 4

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Comment by stephan:
Ther forum post with more explanation is here: //www.dpchallenge.com/forum.asp?action=read&FORUM_POST_ID=23461

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Comment by stephan:
Thanks again for your comments. Never got so many before :-)
BigSmiles got it. I chose this soft and fuzzy focus to distract from the hand and the drawing and to draw attention to the pencil only by the colour. So no I won't make it sharper or show more details of the hand ;-)
I agree with hbunch7187, I would have liked to light the shadows inside the hand more. But I had only one lamp and another one would have cast another shadow on the pencil and I think multiple shadows look bad. Oh well... I wonder how professional photographers solve such problems ;-)
I saw a photo which used the same technique. It was on a beach and there was only a red cloth in contrast to the sepia toned beach background. I was astonished by the effect. So I tried it, too. It's my first photo here on DPC where I felt that I was able to actually do the photo the way I imagined it in my mind.
I didn't like how the colour came out, too. Too neon and almost green. But I still learn The Gimp and wasn't able to fix that at this time.
I'll post a description how I did the postprocessing effect to the forum.

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Comment by lisae:
I have a special interest in this photo, because I was asked to try out your description of how you got this effect in the Gimp. That was so much fun! It came out like magic :). I'm very impressed by this (not that I wouldn't have been before). I also love the composition, and the soft focus and gentle lighting on the hand. I'm giving it 10 - lisae

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Comment by gkoch:
Please let us know how you got rid of the color in the b/w part. I'd like to know that technique...

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Comment by HBunch:
This photo is definately original and the post editing is very creative. The photo is at a good angle making the pencil the subject and not the drawing. lots of similar photos this week that were pretty much a photo of a drawing and stuck a pencil in to meet the challenge. i wonder how many of the drawings will get judged rather than the photos. Oh well. I do have to wonder how you did this because when I invert the photos colors to make it easier to look at, the entire pencil doesn't show color. The hand is a bit dark in relation to the pencil. other than that, lighting and focus are good. Good luck in the challenge.