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faith in chaos
faith in chaos
stephan


Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Fauna (Classic Editing)
Camera: Casio QV-4000
Location: forest
Date: Apr 21, 2003
Aperture: f/4.0
ISO: unknown
Shutter: 1/500s
Galleries: Abstract, Animals
Date Uploaded: Apr 22, 2003

 Macro of an ant, colours inverted, desaturated and contrast/levels adjusted. It's inspired by the movie "Pi - faith in chaos" which I have recently seen. It's a black&white movie (although from 1998) and a bug like this plays an important role. The movie is a bit weird and different from normal movies (exactly how I like it ;-)) but definitively worth watching.

Statistics
Place: 271 out of 313
Avg (all users): 4.2694
Avg (commenters): 5.0000
Avg (participants): 4.0968
Avg (non-participants): 4.5667
Views since voting: 1031
Votes: 245
Comments: 13
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AuthorThread
 05/04/2003 11:32:29 PM
Greetings fromt the Critique Club
Hi Stephan!

Composition
Because your background is almost unseeable, the composition is hard to judge - the ant is nearly centered, but coming into the shot, which is good. I would have preferred an even tighter crop on the ant.

Color
I don't like what you did with this, but that's just my preference. Obviously you had an idea - it wasn't communicated to us because we couldn't see notes during the challenge.

Focus
Off, but you know that (given your comments).

Subject matter
Good choice of subject. I would have preferred the ant doing something, or going somewhere, thought.

Overall
Post-processing kills this for me, but you wanted to do it - don't be disheartened by this score. Sometimes you kill a shot, sometimes you really do extremely well. One of your shots (Edison's Gift) is one of my 3 favorite shots on this site - keep shooting!

  Photographer found comment helpful.
 04/30/2003 07:15:20 AM
Focus, focus, focus. It's always the same people complain about ;-) I liked the fuzziness.
I understand that the "Pi" connection couldn't be understood by many, but I thought that the image would be interesting to some more people. Seems that I was wrong. :-/

Anyway, thanks to the people who commented and said that they like the photo.


P.S.: As described in the photographers comments, the image is colour inverted and not infrared.

Message edited by author 2003-04-30 07:18:28.
 Comments Made During the Challenge
04/29/2003 04:33:30 PM
Interesting use of (I think) inverse black and white. The ant shows up very well, but some of the detail seems to be lost. (Calling this Albino Ant might have confused some of these issues for the better) 6 Rob the Swash
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 04/27/2003 10:12:11 PM
reminiscent of a scanning electron micrograph.....
cool. Is this infrared or inverted?
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 04/25/2003 01:52:32 PM
Good job, i like the photo.
 04/25/2003 01:41:11 PM
too much background
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 04/25/2003 10:00:35 AM
good job
 04/25/2003 09:58:56 AM
good job
 04/24/2003 02:49:25 PM
Eeerie. Good stuff. Is this inverted, or a channel mix?
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 04/24/2003 06:39:04 AM
Interesting image, the spider has taken on a real ghostly form through the infrared filter.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 04/24/2003 06:38:38 AM
interesting subject, but it's not on focus
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 04/23/2003 12:13:32 PM
Interesting composition.
 04/23/2003 01:38:21 AM
eh? negative ant???


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