IpOd
by seebrown

Comment by nards656:
I'm sorry, I try to be really liberal with challenge descriptions, but I see absolutely no connection to "painting with light" here. Sorry; maybe I'm just a narrow minded fool, but I can't see it.

IpOd
by seebrown

Comment by Lilhoop:
its ok. nothing seems too appealing here

IpOd
by seebrown

Comment by pibby:
Nice picture, but I'm not sure it fits the challenge.

Projecting for the Trees
by seebrown

Comment by emmylou:
I just wanted to come back and say that I thought this was an outstanding and way, way original idea....trees in the woods watching a projector screen is so bent, I love it.
This is the sort of quirky brainstorming ideas that can clean up in points...you could ace a challenge with this. All you need to do is work on making it more obvious.
I also like the rectangle shape of the picture. ( like widescreen )
As for giving advice on photography, I am crap (can I say that?), as I am only a beginner.
But I do know enough about photo modification and presentation to understand about audience impact.
Please, keep that imagination pumping out these great ideas.

IpOd
by seebrown

Comment by Photogma:
Not really seeing the painting with light here, and imo, not incredibly unique. A nicely taken photograph however.

IpOd
by seebrown

Comment by Jutilda:
CUTE! Like the commercial.

Projecting for the Trees
by seebrown

Comment by ubique:
Isn't that interesting ... I just knew that you'd get several comments from people who couldn't see the trees at all! (Just imagine how many of those who didn't bother to comment also saw no trees as well)

There are some totally awful monitors out there, and people are using them to vote and also to process their own photographs.

I strongly recommend that you start a forum thread that posts this shot and asks people to say what they can see. People need evidence of how bad their monitors really are, or they just won't believe it. Some still won't.

Oh, and congratulations again on this clever, adventurous photograph. Don't be dismayed that most didn't understand it. Alas, that would take a lot more that a new monitor!

IpOd
by seebrown

Comment by jerowe:
really soft focus on the outline...still a great shot. 6

some Hearts aren't meant to be Broken
by seebrown

Comment by e301:
I think the properly controversial has less of a sense of deliberate provocation and more of a genuine alternative world-view than this shot has. I don't find it to be particularly enlightening - yet it has that quality of photography that shouts out that 'this has a message for you'.

It's easy as anything to have a go at the technicalitites, certainlny for this dpc community - it doesn't have the technicolour pop, the tidiness of design, the clean presentation (look at all that unneccasry dust around the edges of heart, for heaven's sake). Most other technical stuff is fine here - you know, the old DOF, focus, detail and all that.

But hell, the most distressing thing about it is that your non-dairy creamer just doesn't look the slightest bit like cocaine. More like wood shavings.

Now why is that? One, large, part of that is the granularity of that material. This stuff is just too flakey, rather than the almost impossibly small grains of the 'real thing'. It's also, as someone has observed, an impossibly white stuff, and in this photo it just doesn't have that clarity of whiteness; that's some function of levels/curves and processing - even though your white points are there, it would be possible to even out the movement towards the mid-tones - here, I think that process is too quick - thus the oddness of the highlights on that rolled paper. Also, arguably, the social perception of the drug, and the usual presentation of it, and the lifestyle associations of it, perhaps require something a touch more considered that this approach?

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Projecting for the Trees
by seebrown

Comment by emmylou:
indistinguishable, but great idea. (eg. "what trees" ?). Some sort of adjustment with the lighting is needed.