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Challenge: Shadows (Classic Editing)
Camera: Canon PowerShot G2
Location: Graveyard in Locust, NJ
Date: Jun 16, 2002
Aperture: 2.8
ISO: 50
Shutter: 1/200
Date Uploaded: Jun 16, 2002

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Place: 50 out of 138
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06/24/2002 12:47:00 AM
For the record, the title for this shot has nothing to do with the photograph itself. It has more to do with my state of mind when I went out to shoot. And if you don't think the "shadows" are the focus of the shot, then you're not looking at it right. Tilt your head to the left and then bang it against a wall. Now you should be seeing it like I do.

I broke a personal rule with this photo, and that's never to take a pretentious shot of a tombstone and try to pass it off as art. However, I saw it as less of a shot of a tombstone and more of a shot of the shadows on the stone. If it had been a white wall with those shadows I would have been just as happy with the shot.

Setzler - I chose to duotone this shot because the color one sucked. All the green trees in the background really took over and didn't let the contrasts show through. I also thought the use of just light and "shadow" would accentuate the shadow more than the surroundings, but I guess I was wrong.
 Comments Made During the Challenge
06/23/2002 10:32:00 PM
Interesting topic... I liked it.
06/23/2002 10:15:00 PM
d0od, i don't get it. like, there's a shadow but wtf?

just kidding. i really like the blue, and the shadows falling on the stone are very interestingly shaped.
06/23/2002 06:22:00 PM
The shadows don't seem to be the subject of this one.
06/23/2002 03:30:00 AM
Shouldn't it be called 'Death'? Good image though
06/20/2002 05:13:00 PM
Bottom left corner of the headstone is a tad bright, I also would have liked to see the engraving, perhaps. I like the angle of the shot though
06/19/2002 04:06:00 PM
Nice shadows :) I'm curious as to why you chose black and white for this photo... - jmsetzler
06/19/2002 11:25:00 AM
....and live
06/19/2002 09:08:00 AM
nice angle!
06/19/2002 04:56:00 AM
nice thought.. but contrary to life. It is a shadow of life on the dead. If were the shadow of the of the dead faling on something newly born, it would have completed the cycle. life after death! If you menat something different, please share with me.
06/18/2002 12:06:00 PM
A very powerful image, but there's something about the camera angle and composition I don't like. It's hard to say how I would change it.
06/18/2002 12:13:00 AM
?
06/17/2002 10:14:00 PM
Nice! Btw, is that Jim Morrison's face in the bottom right? :)
06/17/2002 05:44:00 PM
Personalyl I would have liked to see this in portrait orientation.
06/17/2002 05:22:00 PM
The shadows do make an interesting play on the tombstone.
06/17/2002 03:35:00 PM
Very nice


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