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Devious Paranormal Callers
Devious Paranormal Callers
Telehubbie


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Challenge: DPC Cinema (Advanced Editing IV)
Camera: Canon EOS-20D
Lens: Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM
Location: Bedroom
Date: May 5, 2006
Aperture: F/22
ISO: 100
Shutter: 89 Seconds
Date Uploaded: May 7, 2006

 I'm hoping people get the idea behind this. It's supposed to be like somebody disconnected the phone, and some paranormal force behind the wall jumped the gap to the phone cord. Probably won't do well, but I'm kind of happy it turned out the way I pictured it beforehand. The empty space above the phone jack is there purposely for movie title, even though we can't put one in here.

Put some shelf-paper on a large piece of foamcore, then cut a hole and mounted the phone jack to it. Mounted the fake wall behind a dresser. Used 580EX off camera with ST-E2 and two white foamcore's on either side of frame to bounce the flash off of. Shot bulb mode and "painted" the green light with an led keychain light. The star effect was from reaching behind the fake wall and shining the led through the hole in the plate directly at the lens, using F22 to give it the starburst effect.

Converted from RAW
Played with the levels
Cloned out bits of distracting stray green light and a few hot pixels.
Saturation adjustment.
A little dodging and burning here and there.
Rotated a tiny bit and cropped.
Burned the vignette-style border around the outside.
Resized, USM, Border, Save for web.

Statistics
Place: 74 out of 207
Avg (all users): 5.8029
Avg (commenters): 6.6923
Avg (participants): 5.5051
Avg (non-participants): 6.0734
Views since voting: 962
Views during voting: 373
Votes: 208
Comments: 16
Favorites: 2 (view)

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 Comments Made During the Challenge
05/14/2006 01:01:56 AM
Well done!
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 05/13/2006 10:29:16 AM
cool!
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 05/11/2006 11:34:09 PM
I just love this picture... congrats..
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 05/11/2006 09:11:32 PM
very well done... 9
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 05/10/2006 07:10:30 PM
nice effect. I like the "paranormal" reflections on the table.
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 05/10/2006 03:39:03 PM
I think a smaller crop would have done better, at least crop some of the top part away.
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 05/09/2006 11:57:51 PM
Well done... love the effect!
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 05/09/2006 03:31:40 PM
You can't escape by unplugging your phone! Good cheezy horror/sci-fi flick. I'd go see it. Nice poster-like image as well. The strong lines of green frame a spot on the upper right for text.
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 05/09/2006 06:18:41 AM
I like the green lighting in this one. Nice shot.
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 05/09/2006 02:53:02 AM
Great shot...cool phone
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 05/09/2006 01:29:49 AM
Made me laugh. Creative!
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 05/08/2006 08:34:06 PM
Great effect!! Congratulations!!
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 05/08/2006 06:23:58 PM
Freaky! Green light (torch light?) is interesting and paranormal. No sure that it goes very well with the browns of your wall and wooden surface.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 05/08/2006 12:30:24 PM
Great idea. Really good colors and great lighting. well done
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 05/08/2006 09:42:03 AM
Very cool! Technically well done.
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 05/08/2006 05:39:38 AM
very nice use of color. the starburst effect works here
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