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Late Evening with a Science Luminary
Late Evening with a Science Luminary
kirbic


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Challenge: Science (Classic Editing)
Collection: Challenge Photos
Camera: Canon EOS-10D
Lens: Canon EF 50mm f/1.4 USM
Location: Hubertus, WI
Date: Oct 14, 2003
Aperture: F13
ISO: 100
Shutter: 0.6 seconds
Galleries: Emotive, Still Life
Date Uploaded: Oct 14, 2003

 Canon 50mm 1.4 lens, 0.6s @ F13, ISO 100. Tripod & TC-80N3 timer. Manual focus, aperture preferred.

Lit with the oil lamp and a tungsten bulb behind it to give a bit more light & reduce the overexposure of the flame. Adjusted curves very slightly, resized & gently sharpened. No crop. That's all.

The book is an 1885 copy of Darwin's "Origin of Species...", printed by the original printer, John Murray, London.
Arguably one of the most important science texts of all time.

Statistics
Place: 13 out of 172
Avg (all users): 6.4359
Avg (commenters): 7.6667
Avg (participants): 6.2366
Avg (non-participants): 6.5674
Views since voting: 1799
Votes: 234
Comments: 20
Favorites: 1 (view)

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 Comments Made During the Challenge
10/21/2003 02:53:42 PM
nice image, good atmosphere of the past, the watch is not really needed and makes it overdone. 7
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 10/21/2003 10:43:25 AM
That's not "late evening" :))) I like the tones here.
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 10/21/2003 08:17:45 AM
Great lighting
Seems like the bottom 1/3 is irrelevant... maybe needs to be cropped
But I love the mood set but the photo
Are you timing evolution?
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 10/20/2003 01:51:03 PM
way too busy.
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 10/19/2003 10:51:56 PM
Beautiful Shot. Great focus.
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 10/19/2003 09:42:59 PM
great show of lighting & shadows along with a sense of Old World scientific study
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 10/18/2003 02:41:31 PM
nice job. good use of lighting.
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 10/18/2003 04:46:28 AM
Very nicely done indeed. Darwin is definitely the person I would choose to meet were I given the choice of anyone in history. Love the lighting/colour here.
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 10/18/2003 03:28:10 AM
This is a very well taken shot....I got a problem with the hand holding the watch to show the tme....just don't find it necessary
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 10/18/2003 12:02:57 AM
Very artistic. 7
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 10/17/2003 10:52:42 PM
I like the setup here, but the light reflections on the metal parts of the lamp seem a bit harsh.
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 10/17/2003 04:26:25 PM
10. Excellent as far as photo goes, I love the lighting.
Personally, I find Darwin and his theories to be more fiction than science, but that's just what I believe (and a several milion others agree with me).
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 10/16/2003 04:34:37 PM
Oh very nice! The lamp, watch, and sepia tone all capture the 'golden age' of science feeling very well. One of the few submissions that really gives the real feeling of 'science'....rather than just some things that technically match the theme.
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 10/16/2003 06:38:06 AM
A very interesting shot, and a clever way of fulfilling the challenge.
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 10/15/2003 10:19:48 PM
huh?
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 10/15/2003 09:57:31 PM
Very well thought out photo. Your composition is excellent. The lighting is very appropriate for this shot and adds good shadows and contrasts. One small thing: there is a strange object in the top left corner. Maybe a tighter crop would have eliminated that. Good luck.
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 10/15/2003 09:37:16 PM
Lovely color and light. I also like the composition here. Heavy reading. :) Good job for the this challenge.
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 10/15/2003 11:08:28 AM
This is a very nice photo, and I like that it includes other scientific subjects and does not rely strictly on text to contribute the science, although it does that to some extent. The flame. the hands, the watch, the page all are nicely lit. This is well-done.
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 10/15/2003 10:12:53 AM
Great lighting and focus. I love the mood of this photo. 8
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 10/15/2003 08:50:32 AM
A REALY imortant piece of science here. And a good photo that captures the time of it's creation. I can almost imagine that it is Charles himself reading the first copy...
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