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Challenge: Fool the Viewer (Expert Editing)
Collection: Challenges
Camera: Canon EOS-5D
Lens: Canon EF 100mm f/2.8L Macro IS USM
Location: Eastham, MA
Date: Sep 12, 2011
Aperture: f/22
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/50
Date Uploaded: Sep 12, 2011
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The goal was to make it seem the fly had been added, which it has not been. In retrospect, I should have made the fly a little bigger and actually added him. Clearly, many voters took the same sense from it that I did; "Damn, that's a big fly!" Actually, it was a very small crab, but whatever :-)
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Carrion Comfort
Not, I’ll not, carrion comfort, Despair, not feast on thee;
Not untwist—slack they may be—these last strands of man
In me or, most weary, cry I can no more. I can;
Can something, hope, wish day come, not choose not to be.
But ah, but O thou terrible, why wouldst thou rude on me
Thy wring-world right foot rock? lay a lionlimb against me? scan
With darksome devouring eyes my bruised bones? and fan,
O in turns of tempest, me heaped there; me frantic to avoid thee and flee?
Why? That my chaff might fly; my grain lie, sheer and clear.
Nay in all that toil, that coil, since (seems) I kissed the rod,
Hand rather, my heart lo! lapped strength, stole joy, would laugh, cheer.
Cheer whom though? The hero whose heaven-handling flung me, foot trod
Me? or me that fought him? O which one? is it each one? That night, that year
Of now done darkness I wretch lay wrestling with (my God!) my God.
-- Gerard Manley Hopkins |
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09/23/2011 08:38:18 AM |
| ok, I think I was there when this was taken and I don't remember the fly, so I assumed you added it, so, yes, you fooled me |
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09/23/2011 02:22:22 AM |
A fly too big or a crab too small...you fooled me great!! :D
You even predicted perfectly how most of us would think. So this means we are soooo transparant ;)
Message edited by author 2011-09-23 02:23:10. |
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09/22/2011 11:44:42 PM |
| Amazing colors, textures... really appealing overall. Not sure I understand what the trick might be. |
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09/22/2011 10:17:38 PM |
| great shot. I think it's real. |
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09/20/2011 11:08:05 AM |
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09/19/2011 07:42:16 PM |
| I'm guessing real but tone-mapped. =) |
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09/19/2011 04:47:32 PM |
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09/18/2011 08:34:28 PM |
| this fellow looks a little familiar, as always, love your processing |
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09/18/2011 06:05:52 AM |
| nice processing (and BTY I'm a big fan of Dan Simmons' books) |
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09/18/2011 04:26:22 AM |
| I think the fly has been put there afterwards |
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09/17/2011 06:56:59 PM |
Heavy processing, perhaps some tone-mapping? It's not overdone.
I'm having a hard time determining if that fly is real. If you put that in there, then it is a really good composite. Final answer: real. |
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09/17/2011 06:56:18 PM |
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09/17/2011 01:02:40 AM |
| nice textures and colors. that fly is eating good tonight |
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09/16/2011 10:08:17 PM |
| Nice detail, looks real, the fly may be a bit big though. |
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09/16/2011 09:34:11 PM |
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09/16/2011 06:47:48 PM |
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09/16/2011 11:50:46 AM |
| Wish you'd entered the close-up, Bear. Such a strange, train wreck can't-look-away image. |
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