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Challenge: Passing Time (Advanced Editing IV)
Camera: Konica Minolta DiMAGE A200
Location: Umeå, Sweden
Date: Feb 26, 2005
Aperture: 3.5
ISO: 50
Shutter: 1/1
Galleries: Still Life, Macro
Date Uploaded: Feb 27, 2005

Straight off the camera.

Statistics
Place: 132 out of 183
Avg (all users): 5.0550
Avg (commenters): 6.2000
Avg (participants): 4.8372
Avg (non-participants): 5.2193
Views since voting: 947
Views during voting: 302
Votes: 200
Comments: 5
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
03/03/2005 08:54:38 PM
Tone choice is nice, looks good in black and white.

I find the most compelling portion of the image to be the design of the chess pieces. To that end I think a DOF that showed all of the pieces in detail would be preferrable to the single chess piece. I catch myself straining to try and make out exactly what the other pieces look like. Perhaps if the focused piece were a bit more central it'd make a difference in my perspective.

Speaking of perspective, I do like the feeling that I'm inside the game with pieces all around, much better than if you'd simply gone for the full chess board shot that is done often.

Over all a fairly clean image, could use something to make it pop a bit more, though I'm not sure what. 6
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03/03/2005 05:06:13 PM
It's a nice shot - I like the depth and then the concentrated focus on the one piece. Lighting is also good. I made the following comment in a couple other comments, and hope you don't mind - but I do with there was a hand or something in your entry to show a person doing something to pass the time.
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03/01/2005 01:57:18 PM
I think that the depth of field is a little off here. I'd prefer to see the whole of the centaur (knight?) in sharp focus. The field of focus seems to extend from somewhere in front of the piece to somewhere around the hind quarters.
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03/01/2005 01:30:19 PM
I like the mono presentation but imo I think isolating the knight with an even shallowere DOF (if possible) would have improved it - good luck
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02/28/2005 01:56:42 AM
Finally, a cool chess set! 7
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