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Falling ApArt
Falling ApArt
HarveyG


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Challenge: Falling Apart (Expert Editing)
Camera: Nikon D7000
Lens: Sigma 85mm f/1.4 for Nikon
Location: Studio, Midrand, South Africa
Date: Mar 12, 2013
Aperture: f/5.6
ISO: 800
Shutter: 1/13s
Galleries: Portraiture, Black and White
Date Uploaded: Mar 12, 2013

 Shot in JPG. Converted to B&W with Topaz Labs B&W Stylized Painterly, Levels. It's almost guaranteed there will be a massively labour and time intensive production by our Expert Editing wizards. They will no doubt get 8's and 9's and 10's galore.

My entry is a simpler effort, with the thought that light, if barely exposed will fall apart, and realised thus by motion blur. The smiling features of my model show a more light hearted artistic side to the Falling ApART title; Falling Apart with laughter...and the high key portrayal of what should really be a low key underexposed motion blur making it that much more a thinking "man's" photograph. Nothing fits and nor should it. I expect a sub 4.

Perhaps I'll get a Posthumous... ;P

EPR: Thank you for the wonderful comments, even if some of you didn't get it :) As you know by now comments is why I stay connected to DPC.

This image is © copyrighted 2013 by Harvey Grohmann. Duplication, publication, copying is strictly forbidden and protected by law. To obtain pricing and consent contact me via Photocommission.com

Statistics
Place: 57 out of 85
Avg (all users): 5.3509
Avg (commenters): 7.8750
Avg (participants): 5.3696
Avg (non-participants): 5.3382
Views since voting: 534
Views during voting: 257
Votes: 114
Comments: 10
Favorites: 2 (view)

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 03/22/2013 04:21:04 PM
Sorry to run against your expectations of sub 4. I gave it a 6. More original than most.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
03/21/2013 10:21:08 PM
What a great image! I love the hi-key and the motion effect but most of all I love the way that motion and effect has given the subject so much character! Almost sinister! Really this is quite spooky to me....as the subject looks like a infamous Australian criminal.....I will tell more after the challenge.
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 03/21/2013 08:26:09 PM
beautiful
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 03/21/2013 03:18:52 PM
the eye got it 10
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 03/18/2013 03:48:41 PM
Love the composition and the feel of motion.
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 03/18/2013 12:57:51 PM
We spend years, as children, learning to see. But sometimes I wonder how I saw things before I learned to see what I expect to see. Maybe it was more expressionistic, maybe I could see blur, I can't remember. By now, I see only what I know is already there & my only hope to see in other ways is the camera. And comps like this. So, thanks.
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 03/16/2013 05:28:50 PM
You light on white minimal portrait is now falling apart.... ha ha ha.. love the high key and the space. Well done.
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 03/16/2013 01:28:08 PM
Beautiful image. Don't know that it says "falling apart" to me
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 03/15/2013 05:19:25 PM
This does not portray falling apart to me. If you were going for emotion the person looks happy...they don't look like someone who is falling apart.
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 03/15/2013 12:25:52 PM
Excellent.
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