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karmat


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Challenge: Light (Advanced Editing IV)
Collection: Abstract
Camera: Sony DSC-F707
Location: Canton, NC
Date: Jan 29, 2005
Aperture: na
ISO: 100
Shutter: na
Galleries: Abstract, Macro
Date Uploaded: Jan 30, 2005

 This shot will either do really well and be one of my higher ones, or it will totally crash and burn . . .Hopefully the former.

Cut a puzzle shaped piece out of a piece of foam board. Using a bamboo skewer, suspended the piece above the hole. Put a pink napkin over a flashlight shining up through the hole and took a bunch of pictures.

I've been wanting to do this shot for some time, and just haven't gotten around to doing it.

Post processing --
Cropped
Cleaned up some odd colored spots
Cloned out the bamboo skewer and shadow
softened the line between the flat foam and backdrop
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wasn't completely happy with it

used selection to select the top of the upperright puzzle piece. Played with curves, dodging/burning/screening, etc. until I found something that made the top piece stand out a bit more and not fade into the background quite so badly.

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Statistics
Place: 14 out of 266
Avg (all users): 6.5714
Avg (commenters): 8.1875
Avg (participants): 6.4344
Avg (non-participants): 6.7353
Views since voting: 1291
Views during voting: 304
Votes: 224
Comments: 19
Favorites: 2 (view)

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 02/09/2005 10:42:19 AM
Congratulations on your 14th placing with this superb execution which speaks way past its physical components into a univeral truth. Ourstanding.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
02/06/2005 08:08:48 PM
i like the science fictionsphere..well done
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 02/06/2005 11:41:41 AM
Great concept, done verywell. I'm impressed!
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 02/06/2005 03:59:49 AM
Poster board? Awsome setup, nicely lit.
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 02/06/2005 02:11:59 AM
Wonderful shot!
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 02/04/2005 11:16:57 PM
Love this shot, well done 10
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 02/04/2005 08:10:22 PM
wow - very powerful maganetic feeling!
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 02/04/2005 05:47:49 PM
Really cool approach to this challenge, I love it. The lighting in this shot is superb in my opinion (wow good lighting in a Light challenge, ha ha). I'm curious, either you have this shot taken with the piece on it's side standing on a table or something and/or it's suspended and you cloned out the strings!?!? Hope to find out. Good Job
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 02/03/2005 02:50:35 PM
Nice photo, really cool.
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 02/03/2005 11:55:54 AM
very cool!
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 02/02/2005 04:48:38 PM
Way Cool. (9)
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 02/02/2005 03:52:57 PM
great concept and lighting.. the puzzle dges are a little chewed but well executed
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 02/02/2005 09:10:38 AM
wow, good shot conceptual and the exposure is quite there too.
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 02/01/2005 01:35:26 AM
amazing image....looks as if it is being sucked in by a beam
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 01/31/2005 07:11:07 PM
Very nice light, very pleasing photo
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 01/31/2005 04:31:09 PM
all around awesome! should ribbon! Great job 10.
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 01/31/2005 02:21:18 PM
Very nice concept and original thinking. I rate this one the best of them all.
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 01/31/2005 08:30:00 AM
10 points! Fantastic light!
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 01/31/2005 01:48:21 AM
Very neat and original concept very nicely executed.
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