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Heart of Darkness
Heart of Darkness
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Challenge: Darkness (Basic Editing III)
Camera: Olympus C-8080
Location: Australia
Date: Jun 9, 2005
Aperture: f2.8
ISO: 50
Shutter: 1/8
Galleries: Emotive, Black and White
Date Uploaded: Jun 8, 2005

 Just kidding!
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Statistics
Place: 181 out of 373
Avg (all users): 4.9930
Avg (commenters): 5.6429
Avg (participants): 4.8033
Avg (non-participants): 5.1350
Views since voting: 2152
Views during voting: 405
Votes: 285
Comments: 22
Favorites: 2 (view)

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 06/22/2005 10:35:09 PM
i see the face. nice shot
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 06/22/2005 07:33:06 PM
I see the knife and a white dot, and if I look really closely the hint of forehead wrinkles
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 06/22/2005 01:07:49 PM
Yes I see the eye and eyebrow and forehead (including crease). Skin is very dark gray.
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 06/22/2005 10:33:02 AM
All I see is the knife.
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 06/22/2005 09:29:16 AM
Missed this the first time....only see it if I stand on my office desk and look down at my LCD screen at a shallow angle. [No-one is surprised by my behaviour here anymore!]. Makes it a lot more intersting a picture than the weapons nut shot I thought it was!!! ;-)

edited to remove spoiler!

Message edited by author 2005-06-22 09:34:53.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
06/19/2005 04:55:16 PM
a very interesting geometrical composition
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 06/19/2005 12:20:27 AM
mmmm, Flannery O'Connor!!
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 06/18/2005 01:47:14 PM
I like this except for the fact that the knife is too prominent, and I had to really search for the face in the darkness, the reflection on eye is good.
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 06/18/2005 11:26:42 AM
CREEPY. Great pic.
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 06/17/2005 06:43:53 PM
Exceptional take on the challenge topic. Don't know how it was achieved but it works very well.

The only technical fault is that the structure on which the eye is apparently superimposed has that oversharpened, fuzzy look common on digital images.
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 06/17/2005 03:52:09 PM
what is it?
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 06/17/2005 07:01:05 AM
I like the composition. A bit more detail in the eye socket area would have been nice.
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 06/16/2005 10:26:33 PM
i would have liked to see the face a little more. I am afraid some monitors you may not even see this subtlr detail
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 06/16/2005 07:53:05 AM
Wow! took me a while to see it! Then it saw ME!!! EXCELLENT! 10
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 06/15/2005 12:58:31 PM
The white dot is distracting to me.
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 06/15/2005 12:27:06 PM
pretty scary pic. Would be nice to see a bit more contrast between the blade and the face. Hard to see the face behind the knife (I know that is kind of the point but really kind of too hard).
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 06/15/2005 12:24:57 PM
A little too dark in the end product. I almost did not see the face, just the white dot in the eye, till I tilted my laptop monitor screen to lighten the image above normal. Good composition and expression.
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 06/15/2005 07:40:01 AM
I would like this more if I could see the eye more clearly.
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 06/15/2005 05:44:49 AM
too abstract for this challenge.
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 06/15/2005 01:34:31 AM
Great shot. I wasn't sure what you were trying to do until I looked at it a bit harder and saw the face in the background. Good luck!
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 06/15/2005 12:43:46 AM
too grainy or overly sharpened? cant really make out what is the subject and meaning. I'm too naive.
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 06/15/2005 12:13:18 AM
WOW... certainly very dark... there's a few on here in the dark, similar but this is by far the best.... 10 well done
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