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2-in-1: Personification & Pumpkin-Carving (+juggling) Winners Parody
2-in-1: Personification & Pumpkin-Carving (+juggling) Winners Parody
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Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Deja Vu II (Advanced Editing IV)
Collection: Photo Illustration
Camera: Nikon D70
Lens: Nikon AF Nikkor 50mm f/1.4D
Location: Lakewood, Ohio
Date: Mar 21, 2006
Aperture: 2.8
ISO: 200
Shutter: 250
Galleries: Humorous, Studio
Date Uploaded: Mar 22, 2006

 I'm pretty sure that I put way too much work into this. I feel guilty ... My wife would much prefer me working on the house. Anyway, it is fortunate that we had fake grapes and saved wine bottles. The set-up involved using a fine fishing line and pins to hang the corks and screw from a metal rod between 2 chairs. The background is the top of a glass table which has a matte finish - a desk-lap is lighting thru it. The rest of the light is coming thru the sky-light and blinded sliding glass door in my living room. The challenge turned out to be getting the screw in the right position as it continually spun around (next time i'll use 2 strings to fix the position :) ... I hand-held the camera and moved the screw with my foot! Post: I rotated the bottle slightly and did some lightening overall and to the corks using curves and levels. Had to clone out the pins and thread, obviously. Well, I now put too much into this note too!

Statistics
Place: 11 out of 141
Avg (all users): 6.9949
Avg (commenters): 7.8750
Avg (participants): 6.8353
Avg (non-participants): 7.1161
Views since voting: 4512
Views during voting: 342
Votes: 197
Comments: 21
Favorites: 3 (view)

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 09/29/2014 05:17:44 PM
I would like to talk to you about you image?
 03/31/2006 05:31:34 AM
I am So glad this placed high. Thanks for the tribute. This was obviously my fav for the challenge :D
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 03/31/2006 05:30:36 AM
Congratulation on a well set up and taken image.
The outcome was certainly worth the effort.
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 03/31/2006 12:22:07 AM
Congratulations on your 11th placing with this well done image.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
03/30/2006 04:08:15 PM
Pictures like this are fantastic because they give the viewer so much to speculate about. There could be more lighting in the grapes but otherwise it is a technically superior image.
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 03/30/2006 02:46:13 PM
Excellent! How many takes did you have to do? Are they suspended with fishing line?

-Rick
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 03/30/2006 01:04:14 PM
Nice idea and execution. Good sharpness, composition, lighting on corks. A little more illumination on the bottle and grapes would help. Hope it does well.
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 03/29/2006 10:54:04 AM
Really nice, but had to see the grapes.
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 03/28/2006 11:13:39 PM
nice job..........very interesting
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 03/27/2006 10:49:36 PM
truly creative! good job!
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 03/27/2006 12:58:16 PM
Awesome shot, really looks like that bottle opener is juggling, I am going to look this up after the challenge to see how you did this, hope you put down a good description in the "photographers comments". 9 from me.
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 03/27/2006 06:34:17 AM
Actually I don't think you need the grapes - they are rather distracting and the shot would have been just brilliant without them. Great thinking to come up with this.
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 03/26/2006 08:32:17 PM
Trippy.
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 03/26/2006 02:17:03 PM
not bad like the idea!
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 03/25/2006 10:59:39 PM
Nicely done.
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 03/25/2006 03:00:17 PM
well done. very imaginative.
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 03/25/2006 01:42:02 AM
great! fun
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 03/24/2006 07:38:19 PM
LOL .. great parody!
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 03/24/2006 07:18:08 PM
very funny recreation! Love it!
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 03/24/2006 02:20:07 AM
cleverly done! It's a good thing you gave it an explanatory title; it makes us look twice and 'get' it more solidly. Very well-photographed as well. I have GOT to learn to light subjects like that -- beautiful.
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 03/24/2006 01:54:12 AM
that's a crisp clear shot and well done
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