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Challenge: Time Passing (Advanced Editing II)
Camera: Minolta DiMAGE A1
Location: my basement
Date: Nov 21, 2004
Aperture: f 5.6
ISO: 100
Shutter: 10sec
Galleries: Still Life, Macro
Date Uploaded: Nov 21, 2004

taken with an ND filter. After taken desatureated to get rid of color cast, cropped slightly.

Statistics
Place: 142 out of 155
Avg (all users): 4.6023
Avg (commenters): 4.2500
Avg (participants): 4.5814
Avg (non-participants): 4.6222
Views since voting: 617
Views during voting: 264
Votes: 176
Comments: 4
Favorites: 0


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 Comments Made During the Challenge
11/26/2004 02:20:42 AM
This is a good idea, but the hands of the clock are too light. I am not sure how you could get them darkerm other than to do a longer exposure by unplugging (or taking the battery out) the clock and moving the hands manually and using a longer exposure.
11/25/2004 04:56:46 AM
Connection with challenge theme: Strong, literal/concrete

Technical merits: Good focus and detail. Sharpened adequately. Lots of scratches and imperfections which could have been rectified under advanced editing rules. A levels adjustment or contrast adjustment would have given this more punch as well as darken the numerals. Cropping is somewhat inadequate in the sense that there is a fair amount of dead space to the right.

Artistic merits: I think you chose a good clock to work with. This image has a lot of potential. I think the shadow on the top portion should have been eliminated by repositioning the clock face or adjusting your lighting.

Overall: You took a literal take on the challenge theme and used a concrete approach which was flawed by technical and artistic issues as described above.
11/24/2004 01:09:59 AM
Some of these shots (sec hand ticking) I rated higher. Yours appears to suffer from a slight tilt and a loss of definition on the moving second hand. The ones that did better seemed to capture the hand at each stop. Good try though and certainly net a low out. Just average (like most of mine). Keep plugging away.
11/22/2004 12:09:10 PM
Given the theme, this image is a bit unsurprising. Also, (1) the black lines in the numbers are a bit dirty, and (2) the black spots in what should be white areas, which takes away from the general cleaniliness of the photo. Otherwise, this is a fine photo. 5


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