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Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Backlighting II (Basic Editing III)
Camera: Konica Minolta Maxxum 7D
Lens: Tamron SP AF 28-75mm f/2.8 XR Di for Minolta
Location: home
Date: Jan 8, 2006
Aperture: 5.6
ISO: 800
Shutter: 1/125
Galleries: Still Life, Studio
Date Uploaded: Jan 8, 2006

Done in PS CS

crop
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brightness/contrast
hue/saturation
levels
gaussian blur
resize
sharpen

Statistics
Place: 128 out of 324
Avg (all users): 5.4047
Avg (commenters): 5.2000
Avg (participants): 5.2336
Avg (non-participants): 5.5000
Views since voting: 963
Views during voting: 413
Votes: 299
Comments: 8
Favorites: 1 (view)


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01/21/2006 12:23:36 AM
Excellent critique. Thank you very much.

Sorry for being curt back....Dave
01/18/2006 05:45:07 AM
Sorry, David, my comment left near the challenge's end was less than tactful. What I probably should have said was something more like this-

I can understand the use of dice, as symbols of chance and randomness, to function as a metaphor for life. But the thing you do with dice is to roll them, not stack them. Stacked dice are obviously not in use, so I feel like that goes against the message you seem to be trying to convey. I think a motion capture would be more appropriate.

Red, sanguine color that it is, has connotations of vitality and mortality. I can see the link to your title and concept, but I think it could have been conveyed in a stronger fashion--perhaps as a solid background element, rather than an active graphic element. As it is, the shapes draw the eye, but there's really nothing to look at in the redness.

Stacks, strobes, and colors aside, what I don't understand is how the mirroring supports the concept of life as randomness.

So what my comment from 15 minutes before the challenge's end was an expression of was that I think this photograph is lacking conceptual clarity.

I do apologize for being curt.

  Photographer found comment helpful.
01/18/2006 01:49:17 AM
you nailed it mycelium
 Comments Made During the Challenge
01/17/2006 11:44:22 PM
life is a stack of dice reflected in a mirror with some red?
01/16/2006 04:50:03 PM
I like this as an almost abstract - nice colours and has that feeling that the dice are about to fall which is great.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
01/15/2006 04:34:23 PM
Good variation on the theme.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
01/13/2006 08:04:51 AM
I cannot get the relation with the title(maybe life is gambling?)
  Photographer found comment helpful.
01/11/2006 07:29:53 AM
not sure if this is true to the challenge although it's a wonderful shot
  Photographer found comment helpful.


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