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In A Shadowy Basement Nearby....
In A Shadowy Basement Nearby....
ElGordo


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Challenge: Conspiracy (Advanced Editing IV)
Camera: Nikon Coolpix 8800
Location: Shop
Date: Sep 17, 2005
Aperture: f/8.0
ISO: 50
Shutter: 2 seconds.
Galleries: Urban, Studio
Date Uploaded: Sep 17, 2005

Levels, brightness and contrast, sharpness adjusted.
Lighting effect applied, cropped, framed, and resized for DPC.\
The only things that are real are the tools and wire, just for those that may think I make bombs!
Most probably won't like the color effect or the frame, but I like it!!

Statistics
Place: 75 out of 114
Avg (all users): 5.0440
Avg (commenters): 4.6250
Avg (participants): 4.6053
Avg (non-participants): 5.2356
Views since voting: 692
Views during voting: 411
Votes: 250
Comments: 18
Favorites: 0


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09/25/2005 09:25:00 AM
A nice fun read for a balmy afternoon.

I liked the chapter on how boiling a pack of cigarettes down to a syrup. Interesting that just 5 drops is lethal. *shudder*

I don't mind the colour in your picture. I found the layout a little too organized for my tastes though. It seems like an odd arrangement. Home bomb-makers are usually really fastidious or really disorganized. The latter group usually ends up losing a hand. Using the wooden table (floor?) made me feel like this should have been a slightly more casual or chaotic arrangement.

Nice idea.

Some neighbor kids at my parents house made a tennic ball cannon and were shooting apples at the local deer. All the apples that are normally made into apple pie were lost. Tragic really.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
09/23/2005 11:23:22 PM
I'm sure you've gotten this a couple times but the picture itself is very yellow tinted. Most likely from the lightning itself.
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09/23/2005 07:32:27 AM
a bit too yellow, seem to be a yellow cast on everything in this photo.
very good idea, and more or less, a good setup. I'm sure you considered having the book open, but then of course you loose the titlepage.
bumping up
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09/23/2005 02:52:02 AM
Nice shot
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09/22/2005 12:45:23 AM
Good idea. Personally i don't think the yellow tint works.
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09/21/2005 02:57:45 PM
Not very many shadows for a "shadowy basement".
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09/21/2005 12:51:42 PM
ahh the pain of incandessent lighting, just too yellow. Good concept, but it is hurt by the lighting and the rather static camera angle
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09/19/2005 06:27:45 PM
A bit too yellow
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09/18/2005 04:37:41 PM
ya put too much work in this shot. Nice though
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09/18/2005 12:35:55 PM
The yellow does not add a mysterious feeling.
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09/18/2005 10:19:40 AM
the entire picture seems yellowed, which in this case is draws from the picture
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09/18/2005 08:19:39 AM
Not bad, very fitting for the challenge. That is not why I decided to comment though, I have some concern that your screen desperately needs to be calibrated for this shot is way way WAY too yellow. Of course, if that was your intent then I just have to say that I don´t really care for it.
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09/18/2005 05:50:53 AM
Hey have you been raiding my basement...LOL!! Good work.
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09/18/2005 05:34:07 AM
I'm not sure if its intentional, but the white-balance here seems a little bit funky. Making it a little less yellow/orange might strengthen the image. I'm also not too crazy about the blue border.
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09/18/2005 01:51:28 AM
White balance seems off or maybe the lighting? Great focus and DOF. I think the composition could of been a little better by adjusting your point of view. Still good shot
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09/18/2005 01:18:58 AM
Had it been a tad bit yellow, I would like it better. Nice setup...Shhhhh...my neighbors are coming up from the basement.......
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09/18/2005 12:48:25 AM
Unfortunate color cast, otherwise a good shot for this hard challenge...
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09/18/2005 12:43:17 AM
Classic thing I see often in indoor photography...that yellow tinge. Two things you can do during the shot...one, is use an 80A filter over your lens...basically it's a filter that has blues in it to cancel out the yellow. The other option is simply desaturate some of your yellow hues in Photoshop. :)
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