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tyrkinn


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Challenge: What is the Matrix? (Classic Editing)
Camera: Canon PowerShot G3
Location: Living room, Kopavogur, Iceland
Date: May 20, 2003
Aperture: f/8.0
ISO: 50
Shutter: 2.5 sec
Galleries: Still Life, Studio
Date Uploaded: May 20, 2003

 Shot through the barrel of a 12 gauge double barrel shot gun (Zabala). I covered the barrel with a black velvet cloth, and put the cover from the Matrix video tape on the other side. Tried a few different approaches, and a few I liked. Picked this one in the hope of interesting comments. Hopefully, I'll post the outtakes after the voting.

Statistics
Place: 11 out of 140
Avg (all users): 6.2074
Avg (commenters): 7.6000
Avg (participants): 6.0000
Avg (non-participants): 6.3285
Views since voting: 1771
Votes: 217
Comments: 15
Favorites: 1 (view)

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AuthorThread
 06/02/2003 11:01:24 PM
Geetings from the CC!

1st off, this was one of my top 5 for this challenge! Great job. It's so hard giving condtructive feedback on a pic you love but I'll try!

COLOR & FOCUS: Color is good, maybe a little more on the green side woul've given it a more Matrixy feel to it. Focus... great! How the heck did you manage to focus down the barrel? You must have been on manual focus.:)

THEME: Respected.

COMPOSITION: Impecable! An original idea and that always scores high with me! The only little minor thing would be the piece of cloth that I see on the right. Too bad we can't do some spot editing for anoyances like that!

Photos like your really inspire! Keep it up!!

Yanik
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 05/29/2003 06:42:02 PM
Töff!
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 05/28/2003 09:49:03 AM
Originally posted by buck4free:
Wow, this is cool. Shame I didnt see during the vote! (9)


I'm sure tyrkinn thanks you for the 9 after the fact . . .
 05/28/2003 07:58:49 AM
Nice work Haraldur - 11th is a pretty cool finish, and your best score yet huh?
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 05/28/2003 12:13:14 AM
Wow, this is cool. Shame I didnt see during the vote! (9)
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
05/25/2003 01:40:55 AM
Good idea. It suits for James Bond theme too. haha
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 05/23/2003 06:30:05 PM
nice swirl of a bullit, good clear refection of "neo" how did you avoid the reflection of the camera? I think I like the contrast between the sharp bullit and the soft gun barrel - cropped like this the barrel almost looks like a skull staring at the viewer. I do find the gray edge of something (upper right) distracting, and I might crop the top a little to make a straight line of the top of the barrel. Good work with the subject - The matrix is something dangerous that must be confronted.
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 05/23/2003 08:44:42 AM
very very very cool. double barrel shot gun? Love it. Jacko. 9
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 05/23/2003 01:40:24 AM
acccck my idea! stolen! hehe I have been planning this or something similar forever... :oP nice job!
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 05/22/2003 06:30:32 PM
Very cool. I love this one. Thinking about it, this was probably pretty challenging to accomplish. Great job.
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 05/22/2003 04:05:29 AM
Good idea.
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 05/21/2003 08:49:11 PM
How'd you manage to focus! Great shot, the barrel must be super clean to reflect the light that much.
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 05/21/2003 12:43:36 PM
How'd you do this?
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 05/21/2003 12:06:22 PM
very good Nice shotgun
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 05/21/2003 01:31:38 AM
Is just "yowza" sufficient feedback? How did you do this? It's very intimidating and provoking -- I like it a lot!
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