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jimmythefish


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Challenge: Illusions (Classic Editing)
Camera: Sony DSC-S50
Location: Victoria, BC, in the kitchen
Date: Oct 27, 2002
Aperture: 2.8
ISO: 80
Shutter: 1/60
Date Uploaded: Oct 27, 2002

Photo of a dictionary. It's a very old book and the pages were buckled in a wavy pattern. The light source is from a window in the direction of the upper left corner. I cropped it, applied a photo negative transformation, and did a very slight contrast enhancement in CorelDraw 11. Originally I submitted the photo positive, but the negative adds to the 'illusion' theme and is much more interesting and dramatic. I like the juxtaposition of the word Illegible to the left of Illusion. It seems to go well with the shallow DOF.

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Place: 78 out of 148
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Votes: 281
Comments: 15
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
11/02/2002 02:54:00 PM
Great use of DOF ! A cleaver interpretation of the challenge. The use of B&W makes the picture complete.
10/30/2002 05:38:00 PM
i just really like this shot!
10/30/2002 05:25:00 PM
I like the contrast and focus on this one.
10/30/2002 02:22:00 PM
Seems like a pretty straight forward photo of a dictionary...Am I missing something? (Is the color inversed? and is that the illusion?) 7 Swash
10/30/2002 11:48:00 AM
Different, I assume you inverted the colors since I've never seen a black papered dictionary. This is one place where that was very effective.
10/30/2002 08:55:00 AM
I knew someone would do this.
10/29/2002 10:20:00 AM
aah, i like it 8
10/29/2002 07:01:00 AM
Very good, well thought out. I like it alot
10/29/2002 04:46:00 AM
wasn't the object to trick the viewer?
10/28/2002 09:18:00 PM
Love that macro shot!
10/28/2002 06:42:00 PM
Pretty cute idea. Different. Fairly good shot for what it is.
10/28/2002 02:14:00 PM
Very illuminating!
10/28/2002 10:16:00 AM
very literal...in B&W...hehe.
10/28/2002 09:27:00 AM
When all else fails ... take a picture of a dictionary!
I like the negative effect and the tight focus.
10/28/2002 08:25:00 AM
interesting shot :) - setzler


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