General Grievous - Star Wars III
by HarveyG

Comment by RamblinR:
This is a nice macro shot. Good bokeh but the subject on this occasion is not very interesting.

General Grievous - Star Wars III
by HarveyG

Comment by Lutchenko:
"have you ever encountered a macro lens before?"... hee hee

General Grievous - Star Wars III
by HarveyG

Comment by FourPointX:
laffin laffin laffin....excellent title

Inflation
by HarveyG

Comment by danculwell:
I really like this shot. It's very clever and while I feel it is symmetric I could see why others would think otherwise. Of course I don't see why you got as many low votes as you did. Had I voted I probably would have given it a 7. Good job Harvey.

ETA: I like the lighting

Message edited by author 2009-11-18 13:25:49.

Inflation
by HarveyG

Comment by HarveyG:
Thanks again to all the comments received, this is why I am here.

Inflation
by HarveyG

Comment by HarveyG:

Originally posted by eyewave: clever idea and nice, clean work except for the white balance, wonder why this didn't place a bit higher. I spotted this as yours for a moment, but then asked myself why you would use dollar bills...

Thx Oliver, coming from a master stock photog. much appreciated. The scale is level, when in theory it should be heavier on the right ($100), but the OOB idea was to show that $100 is now equal to $1. I was going to put numbers in front of the bills, 1970 on the left and 2009 on the right but thought that would spoil the fun of it.
I used dollars instead of my own currency as I thought it would be more globally recognised by the voters. The lighting was a simple 100w halogen and should have been above and behind the camera rather than off to my left slightly. WB was Incandescent, I will experiment more with WB settings next time I try this.

Message edited by author 2009-11-18 04:43:37.

Inflation
by HarveyG

Comment by h2:
clever idea and nice, clean work except for the white balance, wonder why this didn't place a bit higher. I spotted this as yours for a moment, but then asked myself why you would use dollar bills...

Inflation
by HarveyG

Comment by bassbone:
lovely commentary in a challenge lacking such - 8 for this

Inflation
by HarveyG

Comment by GiorgioBaruffi:
good idea, sadly true, you've created a metaphor intelligently, compliments. for me a ribbon.

Inflation
by HarveyG

Comment by wkdesigns:
Nice work, but identical bills would have been more fitting.