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Mirror Of Nature
Mirror Of Nature
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Challenge: Mirrors (Advanced Editing II)
Camera: Sony DSC-F717
Location: Reykjavik/Iceland
Date: Sep 12, 2004
Aperture: 4,5
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/400
Galleries: Nature
Date Uploaded: Sep 12, 2004

Finally I got time to tell about this picture. Hardest thing was to bring this 40kilo mirror in to the car totally allone, then to fasten it and protecten it from other cars that drove way to fast and blovin stones everywer.
I loved that people had to look to see that it was a mirror becouse I was aiming at that.

Statistics
Place: 4 out of 140
Avg (all users): 6.5645
Avg (commenters): 7.3182
Avg (participants): 6.6593
Avg (non-participants): 6.4737
Views since voting: 3355
Views during voting: 388
Votes: 186
Comments: 33
Favorites: 10 (view)


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01/23/2006 11:23:05 AM
Alltaf einhverjir sem misskilja einkunnagjöfina og gefa "1".
Meiriháttar mynd.
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11/04/2004 02:21:43 PM
Originally posted by saintaugust:

i'm not 100% sure what I'm looking at.. is this the opposite side of the road reflected in the mirror and meshing perfectly with the background?

yes :D It took 30min to level the mirror in to the right position.
11/04/2004 12:00:04 AM
i'm not 100% sure what I'm looking at.. is this the opposite side of the road reflected in the mirror and meshing perfectly with the background?
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11/03/2004 10:13:08 PM
well done image - very clever.

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09/21/2004 04:29:35 AM
Congrats on your top ten finish Stefán!

Great use of imagination & patience for the shot.
Well Done!
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09/20/2004 08:17:25 PM
congrats on your 4th place, really well done!
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09/20/2004 10:16:05 AM
Very creatvie. Must have taken some time to set it up.
Congrats, to bad you did not get a real ribbon for this one.
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09/20/2004 02:20:36 AM
I love this shot! Reminds me of René Magritte, something like this or this. Awsomely done!
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09/20/2004 01:04:38 AM
Congratulations on your 4th placing with this surrealistic image, intimating or proving that artistic photography is alive and well.
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09/20/2004 12:15:05 AM
so close... waahhh! congrats on your 4th place!
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
09/19/2004 11:46:56 PM
very, very clever. hope this does well!
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09/19/2004 10:58:38 PM
I have moved this one around a couple of times, but have decided that I like it. Very different. Good job.
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09/19/2004 01:22:29 AM
Beautiful. This image has a timeless feel that is both a bit uneasy and pleasing at the same time.
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09/17/2004 08:44:28 PM
Why B & W?
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09/17/2004 07:45:43 PM
A real artistic take on the challenge. The use of desat on the "real" landscape is perfect.
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09/17/2004 03:04:36 AM
What a fantastic idea - the lining up of the background and reflection is amazing, this is one of my favourites for this challenge.
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09/16/2004 03:14:00 AM
Damn! I love this. Love it!
Excellent capture, challenge specific, highly creative. Desat idea works!
Congrats on a beautiful image
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09/16/2004 02:31:13 AM
seems more like a framed subject rather than a mirrored one... without the title to imply a mirror image, it does not meet the challenge
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09/15/2004 09:29:27 PM
Very Cool! Excellent setup and great idea! One of my favorites.
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09/15/2004 09:27:41 PM
Nice effect. I like the color against the black and white.
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09/15/2004 06:11:20 PM
Brilliant, it's just a shame the sky wasn't a bit more blue on the day, but I suppose the grey adds to the bleakness of the landscape. Well done.
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09/15/2004 12:26:54 PM
I think this really a great ideal, at first I thought there was no mirror. Which might have been a good ideal also, but then I was looking at the line up and seen the clouds looked quiet different and the line right below the frame. So I give you a 10 for making me look so hard :-)
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09/15/2004 03:18:00 AM
This my favorite of the challenge. The simplicity of the idea is amazing and works very well. Contrast is a bit blown out in the real sky (not reflected sky) but that makes me want to focus more on the mirror and trace the lines. Not that I like overexposed skies but it's not as distracting here. Plus the frame forces the eye to look there and the color forces the eye even more. A solid 9 but since I love this shot so much, I'll give it a 10.
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09/14/2004 04:43:59 PM
nice...8
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09/14/2004 01:13:42 PM
Hope someone was watching traffic while you took this. Nice lineup, other than it appears the top mid-ground line on the left (the last stretch of level land before the mountain) doesn't seem to line up with the correct line outside of the mirror frame. Very creative idea. Good luck with the challenge.
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09/14/2004 11:45:02 AM
Neat composition, like the selective saturation. Must be a lonely stretch of road, did you need to jump out of the way often?
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09/14/2004 05:49:55 AM
Impressive, I really love what you have done here.
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09/14/2004 12:26:53 AM
So very cleverly done. I think your use of desaturation and color works very well to point out the fact that part of the scene is in the morror, Great illusion
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09/13/2004 09:30:40 AM
Very original
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09/13/2004 05:28:34 AM
did you really put up a mirror on the highway? it is a great shot I like it
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09/13/2004 12:30:51 AM
very cool!
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09/13/2004 12:28:05 AM
Fun idea! I like the composition, and the selective color looks good here.
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09/13/2004 12:12:39 AM
This looks to me like a window, not a mirror...nice idea but not for mirrors in my opinion.
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