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"Desperation"
tfarrell23


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Challenge: Darkness (Basic Editing III)
Collection: 2005
Camera: Nikon Coolpix 5400
Location: Home
Date: Jun 14, 2005
Aperture: f/2.8
ISO: 122
Shutter: 1/3sec
Galleries: Emotive, Black and White
Date Uploaded: Jun 14, 2005

Basic Editing
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Resized
Greyscale
Leveled
Sharpened
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Saved for WEB

Statistics
Place: 118 out of 373
Avg (all users): 5.3355
Avg (commenters): 6.8333
Avg (participants): 4.9552
Avg (non-participants): 5.6301
Views since voting: 904
Views during voting: 439
Votes: 307
Comments: 6
Favorites: 0


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 Comments Made During the Challenge
06/21/2005 11:45:34 PM
The loss of texture on the hand really detracts from this. (Neat Image?)
06/19/2005 12:40:04 AM
One of the few that actually met the challenge...
  Photographer found comment helpful.
06/18/2005 08:42:48 PM
It looks like you just used desaturation to cause a black/white. I found that in my own entry that it is a horrible way of getting b/w in dimly lit pictures due to low contrast. Try twiddling with the color channels instead. In my case, I isolated only the green channel and set that to b/w and it looked strikingly better. In Photoshop you can do this by using the Channel Mixer and setting green to 100% and the rest to 0% on all color channels.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
06/17/2005 02:34:44 PM
Conveys the idea of a dark prospect. Would the inclusion of a ring indicate considering murdering one's spouse, perhaps? :)

The perspective of this image is fine, but it is unclear what the device at the top of the frame is. That acts as a distraction for the viewer. It looks as though noise reduction software was applied to the image and left overly smooth patches on the skin and table. The tiny whit speck on top of the hand should be removed.

Generally speaking, though, the technical quality of the image is decent and the way the light and shadow is distributed is interesting. Guns seem prevelent in DPC images and voters are jaded to seeing them and that may have a negative effect on your score.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
06/15/2005 07:48:50 PM
Maybe a little bit less light could represent it better.
06/15/2005 04:27:10 PM
This was my initial thought of darkness - but couldn't pull it off. You captured it though. Something about the hand is a little off but still a good 7
  Photographer found comment helpful.


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