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Challenge: Pain (Basic Editing III)
Collection: What Was I Thinking?
Camera: Canon EOS-300D Rebel
Location: Easton, CT
Date: Feb 3, 2005
Aperture: f/2.8
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/2
Galleries: Emotive
Date Uploaded: Feb 8, 2005

 I'm bracing for a low score on this one, but hoping for the best. It's grainy and not particularly appealing, but I thought the technique was cool, and it certainly depicts pain!

The setup was a pain, too. First, I took a photo of my ever-helpful model in front of a black background. Then, I used a digital video projector to cast the image onto a stone retaining wall outside my garage and took a picture of the illuminated rocks. The stone formed a deep crack in a way that wouldn't have been convincing with a 2D surface (such as tearing a print), and I thought the coarse grain was appropriate to the subject. It was snowing when I shot this, so I had to shield the projector, camera and computer under the liftgate of my truck.

Processing was minimal: crop, USM, and some levels and hue/saturation adjustments.

Statistics
Place: 58 out of 215
Avg (all users): 5.2579
Avg (commenters): 6.9444
Avg (participants): 5.2330
Avg (non-participants): 5.2698
Views since voting: 2038
Views during voting: 606
Votes: 318
Comments: 24
Favorites: 3 (view)

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AuthorThread
 02/18/2005 03:29:43 PM
You were robbed, this was one of the best entries in the challenge.
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 02/16/2005 03:05:28 AM
Wow I thought this would have done much better... this was a top pick from me, gave you an 8. Awesome work great idea.
Robert
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 02/16/2005 12:46:59 AM
Shannon--I didn't guess this was yours--to me it's like a beautiful painting! Wonderful. Something I wish I did--maybe that's why it didn't score well for you! ;)
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 02/16/2005 12:25:46 AM
highly underrated... take two aspirin, start working on separation...
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 02/16/2005 12:04:37 AM
This is a great picture, and a stronger entry than its final placement indicates. I guess the price of being highly creative is having a lot of people not really understand--and on the flipside, I can't understand the 102 votes below 5.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
02/15/2005 09:14:05 AM
Painful to look at!
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 02/14/2005 11:09:25 PM
Projected onto a stone wall? Nicely done. 7
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 02/14/2005 04:38:58 PM
Wow, you have a great pain capture here
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 02/14/2005 02:29:15 PM
Very nice! Really painterly, very good symbolism for pain.

I can't wait to see how this was done within the rules! (I guess something to do with printing first..)

Bumping up.
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 02/14/2005 12:16:59 PM
cool effects
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 02/14/2005 06:44:47 AM
Not sure how you did this. Appears to be a projection of the image onto a cracked wall. Good job.
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 02/11/2005 08:44:12 PM
niceee
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 02/11/2005 10:23:09 AM
Being sort of a newb around here I'm not even sure this fits into the "Basic Editing" catagory (Would appreciate if someone would let me know) Other than that, I'm still not a fan of this pic. 1) Too much noise. 2) Odd Hue and Saturation levels are distracting and 3) Nothing seems to be in focus.
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 02/11/2005 01:28:10 AM
I love the patterns nad textures here. Post-processing? Either way, well done!
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 02/10/2005 10:29:47 PM
Cool. How'd you do this? Projection on a rock wall? 7.
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 02/10/2005 07:25:18 PM
I really like the color, placement, and capturing the theme of pain. 9
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 02/10/2005 02:36:27 PM
I don't know... Too grainy, maybe. Maybe just too busy. Looks like real pain, though, which I like (the reality of it, not the pain). Points for style.
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 02/10/2005 12:54:44 AM
This is a very interesting idea. I like it.
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 02/09/2005 10:56:50 PM
Can certainly be classified with essential pain. The effect is interesting because it seems to carry its own independent pain. 8
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 02/09/2005 04:08:32 PM
nice idea lol ..funny in a way
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 02/09/2005 03:27:26 AM
a projector, I assume?
nice work.
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 02/09/2005 01:42:30 AM
I can belief this pain!
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 02/09/2005 12:45:54 AM
This pic looks pixelized.
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 02/09/2005 12:14:27 AM
ugh...migraines are the bane of my existence. superb depiction of this pain!
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