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Sesquisulfide of Phosphorous - Striking isn't it?
Sesquisulfide of Phosphorous - Striking isn't it?
Dirt_Diver


Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Fire II (Advanced Editing IV)
Camera: Sony DSC-S75
Location: My Apartment
Date: Aug 8, 2006
Aperture: F/4.5
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/800 Sec
Galleries: Macro, Science and Technology
Date Uploaded: Aug 10, 2006

Took this picture in hopes that I would do as good as Kiwiness' and Gaurawa's match images. I give it up to them though this was a VERY hard picture to take but I wanted to recreate it and go from there.

I went thru about 2.5 boxes of matches to get this to work right. I first tried taking the picture in the dark with the shutter speed on 1/1000th of a second but was not giving me the light on the match that I really wanted. I then started playing with light near then directly on the match to give it's glow. I must have almost started the match just from the heat of the lights haha. I took about 200 pictures and edited about 75 of them. This particular image, I did at least 10 different ways and decided on this one. Once I imported it into PS I was able to burn out the holder that was holding the match and the smoke that was surrounding the match. I'm sure I would have been killed on that from the voters if the smoke was in there. Cropped then saved for web. Hope you like looking at this as much as I did. I just can't wait until I get my new camera. This image would have come out about 2 millions times better.

Statistics
Place: 46 out of 160
Avg (all users): 5.7202
Avg (commenters): 6.3333
Avg (participants): 5.4026
Avg (non-participants): 5.9310
Views since voting: 1214
Views during voting: 330
Votes: 193
Comments: 10
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
08/17/2006 10:45:17 PM
good job, you got in really close.
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 08/17/2006 09:57:53 PM
Very nice shot - the border is a bit wide though as it almost overpowers the simplicity of the shot
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 08/17/2006 01:06:39 PM
Your title is a little cumbersome for me, as is the border. But for the shot itself, I think you captured the act of striking a match very well. I especially like how the match fades into the background.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 08/17/2006 10:45:41 AM
not a big fan of borders, but the shot is cool and it's in focus.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 08/15/2006 06:11:20 PM
It is... in my native language (portuguese) match is "fosforo" (reads almost like "phosphorous") so I can see the connection... and yes your picture is striking. Nice.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 08/15/2006 08:36:39 AM
Great Pic! Wonderful contrast!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 08/15/2006 07:54:42 AM
lol. that title is right up my dorky science loving isle. i like the photo only criticism is that the upper right hand corner up near the red border has a weird white spot.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 08/14/2006 09:22:46 PM
I think a match shot in this challenge needs to be super creatively done to fare well, and nothing about this stands out. The matchstick isn't perfectly in focus and there's a bit of image noise to be dealt with.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 08/14/2006 09:06:24 PM
Nice timing! What can I say about this but wonderful. Kiwi-esq no?

Maybe a tad sharper but very nice. 8

Wazz
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 08/14/2006 08:08:35 AM
looks like a pimple about to burst! good simple shot of yet another match...a good one though
  Photographer found comment helpful.


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