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Challenge: Single Light Source II (Advanced Editing IV*)
Camera: Olympus E-300 EVOLT
Lens: Olympus 14-45mm f/3.5-5.6 Zuiko Digital ED
Location: Ottawa, Canada
Date: May 27, 2006
Aperture: 3.5
ISO: 100
Shutter: 10"
Date Uploaded: May 29, 2006

First entry ever, so be honest!
tube light behind a closed door, lied on my cement and went at it... took pictures i mean.
a few dozen shots later and voila!

Statistics
Place: 118 out of 238
Avg (all users): 5.5122
Avg (commenters): 6.3846
Avg (participants): 4.9420
Avg (non-participants): 5.7345
Views since voting: 696
Views during voting: 360
Votes: 246
Comments: 19
Favorites: 0


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06/08/2006 05:53:37 PM
Hey there from the Critique Club

Camera Work/Technical: I agree with you on the focus. Self-portraits are often very difficult, especially in low light conditions. The focus you captured is very nice for a 10 second exposure, but just in the wrong spot. You captured great detail in the hair, as well as the door texture.

Lighting: Very nice and very moody. Great exposure control with the lighting that you chose.

Composition/Content: You did a very nice job with creating a composition that leads the viewer's eye into the frame. The door texture serve as great leading lines toward the brightness and then the face. I think cropping a bit more off the top would have helped this one out.

My Opinion: I think some selective desaturation or toying with the toning of the image would have helped you out with the voters. This one would have worked nicely with a grungy type of feel. I think that this one had more scoring potential with just some slight tweaks.

Eric
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06/07/2006 12:57:10 AM
Thanks for the votes everyone, i am a bit unsatisfied myself with the focus (it being on my hair) for those who didn't know, this is a self portrait shot in the dark which i used an object to guestimate the focus i needed on myself. all in all, i'm satisfied with it for a first entry shot, thanks for the comments and i'd love to hear more
 Comments Made During the Challenge
06/06/2006 11:06:56 PM
Great shot
nice detail in the door, great expression on the face and great overall exposure! A very tricky picture to take.Great example for single light source
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06/06/2006 03:46:33 AM
Cool idea for the light source!! could be more interesting if more of the face is shown rather than the hand IMHO. Creative!
06/05/2006 05:03:40 AM
excellent!
06/04/2006 12:38:13 AM
I like the use of darkness as well as light. I also like the way you captured the texture on the "door". Good expression as well.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
06/03/2006 10:00:52 PM
Cool idea. One thing you may want to try is to show something on the other side via a shadow to raise the tension in this shot. Might not quite work in a still frame shot like this but I'm thinking like in a movie when a shadow suddenly appears.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
06/03/2006 07:00:19 PM
Definetely mental. More sharpness on lips and fingers would improve it - feels like focal plane is a bit too far out. But what it lacks technically it certainly has in emotion.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
06/03/2006 03:07:07 PM
My god mon...what are you looking at?
06/02/2006 04:28:58 PM
is he trapped or spying??
06/02/2006 09:22:27 AM
Good response to the challenge, really cute idea.
06/02/2006 07:54:42 AM
I like the idea but you should have used a DOF that let his lips be in focus IMHO.
06/01/2006 09:43:40 PM
very creative and semi-emo, but i like it
06/01/2006 07:13:01 PM
This is captured exactly as a passing spider would see it...I love how natural you made this shot look.
05/31/2006 11:39:39 PM
i think you;re hot!
05/31/2006 06:57:18 PM
YES!
05/31/2006 04:53:54 PM
Took me a minute to get it.
05/31/2006 12:38:02 PM
This was an extremely original idea. Way to go !!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
05/31/2006 02:25:21 AM
The strongest focal point seems to be on the hair - I think if you had kept the eyes the strnogest focus point it would be better. Nice use of shallow DOF. Interesting idea - provokes emotion to a some degree
  Photographer found comment helpful.


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