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Shattered Dreams
Shattered Dreams
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Challenge: Broken (Advanced Editing II)
Camera: Canon PowerShot Pro1
Location: my dining table
Date: Dec 7, 2004
Aperture: f8
ISO: 50
Shutter: 1/5 sec
Galleries: Emotive, Black and White
Date Uploaded: Dec 7, 2004

 Levels adjustment, selective desaturation, neat image, USM.
I don't usually get excited over partial desats, but in this case I really like it. It helps to point out the two major elements/forces in the photo.
I hope I won't get too many: "why did you leave the pen colored, too?" Answer: because the rings are the symbol of the marriage, but the pen is the "knife", so to speak. Its the signature - via the pen - that will end it all.
Is that getting a bit TOO deep and meaningful?

Statistics
Place: 98 out of 177
Avg (all users): 5.2500
Avg (commenters): 6.0000
Avg (participants): 5.1158
Avg (non-participants): 5.3814
Views since voting: 874
Views during voting: 303
Votes: 192
Comments: 11
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
12/19/2004 11:41:37 PM
This looks very much fake to me, sorry.
 12/19/2004 03:05:19 AM
I hope this is staged. Tough theme in this pic, but very appropriate. Great use of selective desat. Tastefully executed.
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 12/19/2004 02:34:02 AM
powerful representation, thought not sure i like the color for the pen. the rings work, but not sure if the red on the pen benefits (for balance) or detracts.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 12/18/2004 06:28:20 PM
shouldn't the ink be red as well? I'd think that would take it over the edge...
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 12/16/2004 05:18:30 AM
Strange. I can see the point of the desat leaving the rings coloured, but the pen? Really, though, it's so blatantly set-up that I think it undermines any sense of the emotion that might have been found here. Confidently done technically, compositionally, but lacks impact for me.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 12/14/2004 06:19:06 AM
Composition: 5, Technical: 6, Appeal: 5, Challenge: 7, Overall Calculated Average Score: 6
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 12/14/2004 04:15:38 AM
Composition: 7, Technical: 7, Appeal: 6, Challenge: 7, Overall Score: 7 (weighted)
Not sure I like the red pen - the rings would've been enough. Maybe some teardrops on the papers? And thank you for not using the word "broken" in your title. ;-)
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 12/13/2004 10:59:26 PM
Interesting take, and one of the few good uses of selective desat.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 12/13/2004 12:40:20 PM
Jane Smith? This is a somewhat bland looking image and is missing the human element of pain...I know the hands are there, but I'm not at all convinced. And the "Jane Smith" seems very 'made up'...
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 12/13/2004 04:50:11 AM
LOL. Did you do the setup with your husband? :-)

Well done!
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 12/13/2004 02:44:06 AM
Excellent, nice touch with the desat and tissues.
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