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Melting Metal
Melting Metal
Quigley


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Challenge: Silhouettes IV (Basic Editing)
Camera: Nikon D200
Lens: Nikon AF-S DX NIKKOR 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6G ED VR II
Location: Orillia Ontario Canada
Date: Sep 18, 2007
Aperture: f/5.30
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/1250
Galleries: Candid, Action
Date Uploaded: Sep 18, 2007

 This is one of my very best friends Ian and he is a Tai Chi Master. When I saw this challenge I had this shot in mind. The hard part was getting the time to set it up.

Auto exposure
Auto Shadows
Adjust Brightness down to 48
Bump Contrast to +45
Saturation boost to +100
Crop
Save to web
bump saturation

Statistics
Place: 173 out of 273
Avg (all users): 5.1867
Avg (commenters): 6.0000
Avg (participants): 4.9744
Avg (non-participants): 5.3750
Views since voting: 865
Views during voting: 223
Votes: 166
Comments: 10
Favorites: 1 (view)

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AuthorThread
 12/30/2007 12:39:37 PM
Interesting shot, would like to see the man be a complete silhouette with only blacks, i think that would add a lot to the picture, nonetheless a very unique shot and one to be proud of
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 09/26/2007 11:02:01 PM
Cool I can tell that is Ian but hey I know the guy,The sword looks like it is 2 pieces..
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 09/26/2007 01:12:04 PM
It's a good start. The main problem is that not much of him is visible. If there were more horizon, so we could see all (or at least most) of him, I think you'd have a really good shot.
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 09/26/2007 09:32:13 AM
I thought this was pretty good. Perhaps a little too much empty black space toward the bottom. Cropped a little more to the top might draw me to the subject more.
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 09/26/2007 07:48:46 AM
It's a cool moment, but like others said it just lacks outlines. I can't really distinguish that this is a whole person, your focus is all on the top of the image which makes this a really odd composition and not pleasing to look at. If you would have backed up some more and tried a different angle to get more of the outlines of the person you would have gotten better results I think. Also you don't need to use the bright sun like this to get a silhouette, could just use the warm colored sky, as the sun overexposes the top of the image and makes a ugly mark on the sword.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
09/24/2007 02:52:18 AM
not much details
 09/21/2007 01:36:12 PM
There isn't enough contrast to distinguish the silhouetted figure from the dark background.
 09/20/2007 01:36:27 PM
Very creative good job...
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 09/20/2007 10:38:59 AM
Very interesting pose and subject to photograph, the sunshine gave a nice highlight to his face...works for me altho if from the waist below was solid black I would've liked more =)
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 09/20/2007 08:24:46 AM
Very nice effect! I think it would be even more convincing as a silhouette had the background been more open, with more light behind the figure.
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