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Challenge: Red V (Minimal Editing I)
Camera: Fujifilm X-E2
Lens: Fujifilm XF 18-55mm f/2.8-4 OIS
Location: Midwest City, OK
Date: Oct 10, 2014
Aperture: 9.0
ISO: 100
Shutter: 10
Date Uploaded: Oct 9, 2014

 Hoping for an exact even number score with this one - my prediction is 5.0000000000000000 ;)

It's inspired by the much-favorited Fantasia by Gordon, with some obvious changes.

This took a lot more work than it appears - probably close to 200 takes, with my wife and I both trying our best freehand light-painting cursive and I ended up going with one of mine, which according to my wife the cursive is horrible and I should go back to 2nd grade, but it's the cleanest photo.

The light sources were an electric candle with red glass crayon all over the bulb, and briefly an LED flashlight to light up the paintbrush. I went with a custom white balance and red color shift, with saturation and contrast punched all the way up, in the camera settings.
Editing was resize and sharpen and save.

Edit - oh, no kidding, 4th. I wasn't even expecting top 10 with that score and with a lot of the other photos I gave 8's and 9's to in voting.

Statistics
Place: 4 out of 92
Avg (all users): 6.3939
Avg (commenters): 8.0000
Avg (participants): 6.4400
Avg (non-participants): 6.3469
Views since voting: 1341
Views during voting: 197
Votes: 99
Comments: 10
Favorites: 1 (view)

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AuthorThread
 10/23/2014 02:25:38 AM
Well done congrats on HM
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 10/22/2014 07:46:15 PM
Congrats on the HM. Fantastic accomplishment in minimal. Good work!
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 10/22/2014 09:51:42 AM
Good for you!!! On front page two times this week...it's a good week isn't it!!!
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 10/22/2014 05:30:07 AM
I had one of these rolls earlier this year. It's fun. Keep it going!
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 10/22/2014 12:42:38 AM
Man, you're pulling out all the stops. Sloppy lettering, though :-) Congrats!
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 10/22/2014 12:07:40 AM
You are on a nice roll, Jon. Keep it up.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
10/21/2014 09:25:26 PM
Really nicely done.
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 10/17/2014 07:46:50 AM
Nice idea and an execution to match. Awesome.
For this challenge, i wandered around the town looking for graffiti with the text red (црвено to be precise :-) written/painted in red, but couldn't find a good one. Light painting never came to mind.

The blown highlights in the brush tip are a bit distracting, but only a bit.
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 10/16/2014 01:35:44 PM
Way to separate your self from the crowd.
Well done.
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 10/15/2014 09:24:13 PM
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