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No Escape!
No Escape!
Renee707


Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Personification (Basic Editing III)
Camera: Canon EOS-350D Rebel XT
Lens: Canon EF 28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM
Location: Las Vegas, NV
Date: Oct 5, 2005
Aperture: F/5.6
ISO: 400
Shutter: 1/15 sec
Galleries: Nature, Animals
Date Uploaded: Oct 11, 2005

Taken at the Lion Habitat in the MGM Grand Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada. Slight crop, resized, no other editing. The feeling I hope this evokes is in identifying with the ball (the prey) and knowing it is about to be attacked and there is no escape from it's fate.

Statistics
Place: 194 out of 204
Avg (all users): 3.7046
Avg (commenters): 3.1875
Avg (participants): 3.4409
Avg (non-participants): 3.8351
Views since voting: 959
Views during voting: 431
Votes: 281
Comments: 20
Favorites: 0


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10/19/2005 08:53:37 AM
renne the slow shutter speed might have worked - had the camera been braced so the movement was in the lion and the ball.
Instead the movement is camerashake (ie all over the picture), which makes it look like a mistake.
Always use a tripod or study table for shots with slow shutter speeds. 1/30s of a sec is often the very very slowest a photog can get away with without camera shake - and that is will a sturdy strong arm.
10/19/2005 01:30:09 AM
Thanks for all your comments! Guess this pic didn't quite convey what I was hoping for (the ball fleeing for it's very "life" but about to be caught anyhow, therefore "No Escape"). The slow shutter was purposeful, hoping the feeling of blurred movement would heighten the tension...but alas, the attempt didn't work. Oh well...maybe next challenge, eh? :)
 Comments Made During the Challenge
10/18/2005 01:24:23 PM
I'm sure you were trying to make this blurry-kinda an artsy effect?
10/17/2005 09:52:10 PM
Interesting blur of motion, but I don't get the feeling of personification out of this image.
10/16/2005 09:12:19 PM
For me, the challenge rules stated using inanimate objects. Your photo shows a living species and therefore I have given it a low score.
10/16/2005 05:43:07 PM
The ball may qualify as the inanimate object, I guess. The motion blur is too much. I would have by far preferred the background to be in focus while the ball and lion remained blurred.
10/16/2005 04:29:35 PM
sorry for the one, but it is very blurry , And I don't see any "personification" here
10/16/2005 09:35:23 AM
Think I see what you're trying to get at but it doesn't really come across as such.
10/15/2005 10:51:31 PM
a little bit blur to me...thats just my thought...
10/14/2005 08:55:35 AM
While the motion blur is interesting, unfortunately the background is also blurred, leaving me with nothing to anchor me.
10/14/2005 04:18:58 AM
Maybe a sharper focus would help this.
10/12/2005 09:23:01 PM
weird low class pic
10/12/2005 07:51:42 PM
I'm not sure what you were going for in this image, fear maybe? On second view , bumping to 7. I like the concept, but it's unclear without the aid of the title.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
10/12/2005 03:29:11 PM
Perhaps you were going for a feeling of movement (I hope you were) but it is so blurry that it is not appealing. I also don't see how this meets the challenge.
10/12/2005 01:25:33 PM
Way... way... too blurry
10/12/2005 12:14:44 PM
very verry verrrry blurry
10/12/2005 11:33:41 AM
inanimate object?
10/12/2005 09:26:03 AM
I like the effect on this picture. The little thingy in this picture shows joy. This is a very interesting picture. Made to look this way on purpose or not, it doesn't matter. Great job!
10/12/2005 01:05:32 AM
wow! very interestithe action blur works for me
10/12/2005 12:58:09 AM
It would have been nicer if the lion and ball were VISABLE.


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