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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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