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Medusa
Medusa
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Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Blurry Mess (Basic Editing)
Camera: Nikon D200
Lens: Nikon AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor 18-70mm f/3.5-4.5G IF-ED
Location: Philadelphia, PA
Date: Mar 11, 2008
Aperture: f/ 29
ISO: 160
Shutter: 3 seconds
Galleries: Abstract, Floral
Date Uploaded: Mar 11, 2008

 I took a bunch of recently dried flowers and put them in a vase. Did some arranging. I eventually turned the base a quarter turn to the right to avoid some glare on the vase. This is what I got. I panned the camera in a slow swiggle motion from down to up. Played with the lights to get as much motion as I could...saw this and flipped. It will bomb but I like it.

Post: Camera raw adjustments in PSElements 6.0. Convert to Jpeg. Layer adjustments for levels, brightness/contrast and hue/saturation. Sharpen. Crop. Resize. Sharpen. Would have loved some dodging and burning but....oh well.

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Post challenge: I just wanted to add to the shooting information that the image was out of focus to start with and then panned. Not sure how it would have looked focused and panned but I thought starting out focus would give more leeway with the panning path I used.

and Wow: Thanks, Don!

Statistics
Place: 102 out of 292
Avg (all users): 5.3786
Avg (commenters): 7.5000
Avg (participants): 5.4811
Avg (non-participants): 5.2993
Views since voting: 821
Views during voting: 362
Votes: 243
Comments: 13
Favorites: 1 (view)

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AuthorThread
 03/21/2008 01:35:40 PM
Congrats on the Posthumous yellow!
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 03/19/2008 02:09:26 AM
Beautiful transformation. Beautiful floral. Beautiful work.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
03/18/2008 03:34:42 PM
don't like the colors all that well but this fits the challenge perfectly. I give an 8 and may bump on further review. Upon further review and in light of the competition I am bumping this up to 10.
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 03/18/2008 09:49:55 AM
OK; I'll buy that title. Thought first of a flaming tornado (is that a drink?) but Medusa definitely works. Nice abstract with just a bit of definition, and some bokeh :-)
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 03/18/2008 12:44:12 AM
Very painterly! I would like to see a bit more highlights, but overall very nice.
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 03/15/2008 10:40:16 PM
Nice blurry, chaotic blob you got there.
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 03/15/2008 09:02:48 PM
hard to see a headful of snakes here but it is blurry,
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 03/15/2008 09:01:28 PM
wonderful
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 03/15/2008 07:46:55 PM
Haunting image. It almost looks like a Renaissance painting.


tie for Posthumous Yellow...(great title!)
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 03/12/2008 10:46:13 PM
really does look like medusa in an abstract way! I like how the whole blur is pretty much in the photo
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 03/12/2008 09:18:35 PM
very fall-ish colors,very lovely 7
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 03/12/2008 03:41:19 PM
The repetitive, choreographed movements are like dance. The color is lively & interesting. I'm thinking of swans & belly dancers. Looks like a smoothly moving camera on a moving subject. 10
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 03/12/2008 02:30:24 AM
Now this I like. Nothing to add.
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