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Sobbing Skull
Sobbing Skull
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Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Fire (Advanced Editing I)
Camera: Sony DSC-F717
Location: bedroom
Date: Feb 29, 2004
Aperture: 3.5
ISO: 400
Shutter: 1/15s
Galleries: Emotive, Studio
Date Uploaded: Feb 29, 2004

 This skull is actually an ash-tray. I poured lamp oil (in gel form) inside, put a candle in the front to illuminate the face, then poured a drop of the gel on his face as a tear (you can see the reflection in the blue flame)and lit everything!
The blue flame was meshwarped (slightly twisted) to accentuate the watery tear look; the original was flamming straight up and was quite boring. Then I added the redish tip to the blue flame to stress the fact that it's a flame + brightened the blue of the flame. The skull remains pretty much intact and the background was cleared up. That's it.

Statistics
Place: 33 out of 113
Avg (all users): 5.5795
Avg (commenters): 8.1667
Avg (participants): 5.4938
Avg (non-participants): 5.6526
Views since voting: 1322
Votes: 176
Comments: 10
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Jenoptik JD1300D
 03/09/2004 07:03:54 AM
thats amazingly spooky but sooo good
Fujifilm X-T20
Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8 L USM
 03/08/2004 04:23:49 PM
should have gotten a ribbon.
 Comments Made During the Challenge
Panasonic DMC-FZ30
 03/05/2004 03:20:56 AM
spooky and very clever 7
Olympus OM-D E-M1
Olympus 75-300mm f/4.8-6.7 II M.Zuiko ED
 03/05/2004 12:02:16 AM
Beautiful shot, nice drop effect with the flame.
Canon EOS-10D
Sigma 18-125mm f/3.5-5.6 DC for Canon
 03/04/2004 07:06:56 PM
Interesting to use a flame to represent a tear. It is the perfect shape, and the blue gas colored flame reminds one of a watery cartoon tear. The yellow/orange glow from inside the skull and illuminating the skull is a nice contract in color. Wish it were deeper focus, and a little sharper overall. 7
 03/04/2004 04:08:02 AM
Good imagination.
Fujifilm FinePix 2800Z
 03/03/2004 11:50:11 AM
VERY NICE !!
Vivitar ViviCam 3715
 03/02/2004 07:29:01 AM
I lilke it a lot but the blue flame distracts me. my opion only
Minolta DiMAGE Z1
 03/01/2004 03:13:51 PM
This is amazing - the blue flame for a tear is a great touch, provides good contrast to the skull. Hamlet anyone?
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