mechanical free fall
by cq107

Comment:
BLURY, blah who cares, this is diffrent and creative, I felt that NO one would attempt such a shot , and sure enough I was right. Its a shame that only 32 or so peple understood what they were looking at. The white thing in the middle is the tip of the eraser. As for the motion blur, I challenge anybody to recreate this shot and acheive such an image :) I messed up the URL for the original at the top, here it is (big diffrence): //umsis.miami.edu/~jjuroch/photos/dpchallenge/submissions/images/pencilORIG.jpg

Stayin' Alive
by sylk

Comment:
ok cool idea. but lets talk framing... its nice right now, but could be 10x better if you were to crop out the background and just closed in on the glass: ie : //umsis.miami.edu/~jjuroch/alive.jpg

Leaden Smolders Above the Rest
by karmat

Comment:
cool consept, great execution- 9

Ghostwriter
by gkoch

Comment:
I can't figure out your lighting technique...thats good

pencil, hi key study
by lecook

Comment:
they say a photo is worth 1000 words. Its obvious that this photo is telling a story. I would give it a 15 :)

My true Love
by Baldur

Comment:
I'm sorry I don't see the pencil. What I see is a pen with a ball of ink that has dropped... even in the reflection, I don't see a pencil.. Great photo though, lighting is great, even "DOF" is intact, over all i really like it, just don't see a pencil. 1

I'm positive it's #2 officer!
by dpattee

Comment:
OK took me about 5 minutes to realize that the 2 pencils "in" the background are the offcier and narator, VERY GOOD photo. 9

Sigh...
by lisae

Comment:
contrast is too high, Its very grainy... 7

Creativity Tool
by stephan

Comment:
Administrator Note: This image has been validated by the administrators, and the effect was NOT acheived through illegal editing.
Thats the funniest thing I have seen, its obvious most people on DPC need some photoshop tutorials... nice effect... 9

Red and White
by Remie

Comment:
10- I can't really say more...