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Jack in Black... and White
Jack in Black... and White
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Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Shallow DOF III (Basic Editing)
Camera: Olympus E-500 EVOLT
Location: Inside
Date: Jan 27, 2007
Aperture: 5.6
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/2
Date Uploaded: Jan 28, 2007

Well it is oversharpened and unfortunately I just don't have the time to get back to re-doing this. So I will be expecting comments on this one. Oh and I added a frame - sure to be a crowd pleaser lol.

Not sure if people will like my take on DOF. The card is hanging and I did some hand contortionism. I use black and white to hide my color errors and crappy background. So here it is! One last luxury before WPL!

Score prediction: 5.3111389765

Edit: Sorry to anyone who looked at this on a monitor that showed all the details of the background! It bummed me out to see it. The intent was that you would see a black background. Looks good on my monitor lol

Statistics
Place: 109 out of 413
Avg (all users): 5.7435
Avg (commenters): 6.0000
Avg (participants): 5.5169
Avg (non-participants): 5.9412
Views since voting: 866
Views during voting: 265
Votes: 191
Comments: 7
Favorites: 0


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 Comments Made During the Challenge
02/06/2007 02:42:04 PM
Strange composition. I don't really know if it works or not. Nice image though.
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02/05/2007 04:08:47 PM
thought i've seen all cards pics... this one i like
  Photographer found comment helpful.
02/02/2007 08:26:04 PM
With the hand being blurry, this Jack seems to be rising up, nice use of DOF to convey movement (to me, anyway)
  Photographer found comment helpful.
02/01/2007 10:07:08 PM
With playing cards, razor thin DOF still produces a sharply focused subject. On the downside, using the shallowist DOF possible can produce an image where the subject is disconnected from the rest of the image. This I feel is what is happening here. I think having the fingers more in focus would help connect the jack to the rest of the image.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
01/31/2007 08:28:18 AM
Nice photo, but for this challange I gave higher score to photos with both the foreground and the background out of focus.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
01/31/2007 04:20:28 AM
not very shallow dof
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01/31/2007 12:42:51 AM
Great idea.. Too bad you can't clone out the wire holding up the Jack. I think that's what that is. No worries though, you had a great composition and you executed it extremly well. Solid 7.. I'd love to see this in color after the challenge is over.
  Photographer found comment helpful.


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