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Challenge: Bokeh (Advanced Editing IV)
Camera: Canon EOS-300D Rebel
Location: bedroom
Date: Jan 8, 2005
Date Uploaded: Jan 9, 2005

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Statistics
Place: 38 out of 241
Avg (all users): 6.0173
Avg (commenters): 7.5385
Avg (participants): 5.8279
Avg (non-participants): 6.2294
Views since voting: 1092
Views during voting: 361
Votes: 231
Comments: 15
Favorites: 1 (view)


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01/19/2005 09:56:37 AM
Greetings from the critique club!

Initial impact: oooh guitar..woh I'm dizzy...

Does it meet the challenge.... hmm I don't know... My personal opinion is no. However from your comments many say yes. It looks to me from your score it was pretty well divided. with the yes group winning. My reason for saying no is this. I feel that Brokeh is the element of having an Out of Focus back ground with and having somthing to do with light. The "object" of your focus gradualy goes out of focus. You don't have an out of focus background in my opinion. But like I said it apears the voters disagree for the most part.

Lighting: wonderfull lighting, you alow the weiwer to see all of the rich tones in the wood grain, and I feel that placing the light to alow the reflecion of the pegs on the woods was agood choise. It adds a little more depth to the shot.

Color: I could not ask for more great color.

Composition and framing: I am happy with these aspects as well. The border works well with the image.

Overall: I'm not sure why but this photo gives me nausia. Not that it's a bad image. But the angle or the fade or the combination just dosn't sit well with me. I get a feeling of vertigo. Yet this is a very well shot and thought out peice of photographc art. It is technicaly has almost no imperfections. Yet just does not click with me.

So in conclusion I feel that some might not have seen this as fitting the challenge. This might have had a bit to do with this not making the top 10. Aside from the debate on what is brokeh.. this is a great image and I hope to see more like it. Good luck in future challenges..

Tristalisk
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
01/16/2005 10:43:37 PM
Nice!
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01/16/2005 09:41:02 PM
make my eyes hurt. good idea though. good luck
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01/15/2005 03:09:52 PM
Not really my cup of tea, so I originally scored lower. On second glance this is perfectly done. Bumping up.
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01/13/2005 03:33:13 PM
I've seen this done before, from both the bridge and the nut, but this one is very nice. 7.
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01/12/2005 03:45:59 PM
I absolutely love how the stillness of the guitar body is offset by the motion of the strings! The pattern you have captured from that motion is incredible! Viewpoint is excellent and makes a very strong composition. Black background is just right and echoes the dark shadows within the lower half of the frame. One of my top 3 entries in this challenge.
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01/12/2005 01:13:33 PM
A very interesting effect. It is like the road to... Bumping up.
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01/12/2005 07:54:07 AM
excellent dof
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01/12/2005 02:52:32 AM
A fascinating angle of view.
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01/11/2005 11:02:50 PM
i wish the strings were a little more in focus, but great photo none the less
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01/11/2005 09:01:46 PM
Hmmm, I'm a sucker for good guitar shots, but there's something about this that doesn't quite work for me. The pegs and bridge are in focus but the gradient toward defocused fretboard seems distracting and off. I love the soft tones and crop, but somehow having so much of the guitar out of focus seems wrong. Still, a good interpretation of the challenge.
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01/11/2005 11:14:24 AM
This is a fantastic picture, I like the sharp, in-focus foreground with subtle reflections of the knobs and the strings escaping into the background. I think that the subtle flares one third off the top of the picture work very well here. (10)
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01/10/2005 06:42:35 PM
Nice. The blurred background really gives the foreground meaning. And I, for one, thing the border is perfect.
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01/10/2005 11:57:07 AM
Very nice! Great clarity and wonderful perspective. Well done!
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01/10/2005 02:28:50 AM
Very sweet, unusual quality to the bokeh. Nice shot.
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