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Challenge: Fill the Frame II (Expert Editing*)
Camera: Canon EOS-20D
Lens: Canon EF-S 17-85mm f/4-5.6 IS USM
Location: Nova Scotia, Canada
Date: Jan 25, 2007
Aperture: f20
ISO: 400
Shutter: .5s
Date Uploaded: Jan 25, 2007

hands are directly scanned in. so lmany layers in this it's not real.

late late late...

i had this idea in my head the whole week, but only started shooting it an hour before the deadline. i had scanned the hands in during the week, so just had to do the putting together. the idea for this came from a mixed media piece i did all those years ago in art college. that one was charcoal, photocopies, paint, and pastel, but similar in spirit. frankly, i think the original was more successful, but this is really only experimenting. plus, i had 45 minutes to edit and submit.

so, it's the kind of stuff i might do again, but i think really i'm more interested in less obvious manipulation. however, it's a good learning exerciese, so i'm sure i'll keep entering the expert editing.

thanks for the comments, all very helpful.

Statistics
Place: 181 out of 211
Avg (all users): 4.6061
Avg (commenters): 6.1429
Avg (participants): 4.4024
Avg (non-participants): 4.8072
Views since voting: 667
Views during voting: 224
Votes: 165
Comments: 11
Favorites: 1 (view)


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02/12/2007 05:06:03 PM
excellent idea Christian, your scanned series is all excellent.
I didn't vote here and I didn't know the fingers were scanned but there's something exciting about them: some look like x-rays while others are almost normal. something weird and very disturbing about it, ans the title is excellent.
this is something that definitely stays in mind for a very very long time. I've been thinking about it a lot since i saw it first time and decided to write a comment only now.
I don't feel like I understand it completely - and it's great. what a deep and clever idea!
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02/02/2007 12:43:29 PM
I like this a lot and gave it a 10. I could tell that the hands had been scanned, but some of the fingers actually looked like x-rays. It's a really cool creation. I like the theme and the great colors. You seem imprisoned by your identity. Interesting!
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02/02/2007 12:14:10 PM
I like this image. It has that late emerging pop art style. The fingers really bring together the image. I like the colors here. This is one of the best uses of "expert editing" and for that alone should have been scored higher. I like the overall tone of the image here, almost a seductive look embodied with a flash of fury. Wonderful photo.
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02/02/2007 08:30:34 AM
Christian - I like how some of the fingers look like fingers, and others like skeleton hands. This is a very interesting idea, with cool colors. The composition could be a bit stronger - I read from your comments that you threw it together at the last minute (pretty impressive for a one hour effort). Hope you'll do it again and post in your portfolio.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
02/01/2007 09:38:02 PM
I like that those oppressive criss-crossing lines are actually fingers. 7
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02/01/2007 07:53:07 AM
Looks too much like a graphic rather than a photo. Sorry. Good luck.
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01/30/2007 12:53:14 PM
Radical. Frame is indeed full.
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01/28/2007 03:30:44 PM
funkadelic!
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01/26/2007 07:24:57 AM
I appreciate that you've gone to a lot of effort on this image. Not my cup of tea though - perhaps a bit too much post processing.
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01/26/2007 01:18:26 AM
love the processing and the result ... very different from usual dpc stuff ... great .... =9
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01/26/2007 01:03:41 AM
This is very strong, nice piece of work. It goes way beyond the "photographic", of course. How will the voters treat it? I'll be looking in a week :-)
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