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Slow, but certain dead end
Slow, but certain dead end
samanwar


Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Dead End (Advanced Editing IV)
Camera: Canon EOS-20D
Lens: Canon EF 50mm f/1.8
Location: Home
Date: Nov 6, 2005
Aperture: f/2.2
ISO: 400
Shutter: 1/40
Galleries: Snapshot, Black and White
Date Uploaded: Nov 6, 2005

 My kids looked at me with extreme disgust, while I smoked that Cigar and my wife was trying to get a good shot.. She took at least 30 shots or so, before I decided I cannot smoke that thing anymore. This was the best I was able to come up with.

Statistics
Place: 13 out of 173
Avg (all users): 6.2451
Avg (commenters): 6.6250
Avg (participants): 5.9901
Avg (non-participants): 6.4951
Views since voting: 2081
Views during voting: 390
Votes: 204
Comments: 20
Favorites: 5 (view)

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AuthorThread
 02/18/2006 04:05:25 PM
soo, your wife is the photographer here? Good message and love the detail
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 11/14/2005 12:58:41 AM
Remains a worthy good study. Congratulations on your top twenty.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
11/13/2005 11:51:27 PM
This is an outstanding b/w study with that pleasant graphical feel. Bumping up.
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 11/13/2005 12:56:01 PM
Excellent lighting, positioning and perspective. Very effective shot. One of my favorites.
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 11/13/2005 12:38:14 PM
Great focus and love the off centered image. The border is a bit large for such an unimpossing image. IMO it would have worked better to stand alone without any border. Great title....and the image. Nice work
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 11/13/2005 07:13:35 AM
Great composition and B&W. PhotoShop effect is though, too much much for me. For my taste, cleaner smoke and not that oversharpened face would do better. Maybe a darker background would highligt the smoke better.
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 11/13/2005 01:23:43 AM
classic in every way, well done and good luck
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 11/12/2005 10:27:11 PM
Very cool and artistic. Well done.
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 11/11/2005 10:07:35 PM
i think this will be a favorite of many. the smake and the stubble - the lips are kinda makin me nervouse -but overall very affective. 8
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 11/11/2005 10:00:40 PM
nasty and true
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 11/11/2005 07:40:17 AM
Creative and well executed. Great shot.
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 11/10/2005 08:18:35 PM
Interesting
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 11/10/2005 06:16:59 PM
ribbon deserving rendering in my book
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 11/10/2005 05:51:01 PM
I love the concept in this. Can almost imagine the smoke forming sort of a skull-like image - wished it did. I know you can't control that. My only gripe is the funny texture on his lips which does nothing to enhance the photo.
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 11/10/2005 05:26:12 PM
nice compostion, but looks a bit too processed..
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 11/09/2005 07:42:59 PM
i like it. not sure about the little caterpillars on his chin and lip and fag. oversharpened? love the shot and the smoke though.
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 11/07/2005 10:35:29 PM
You could say the same for life...
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 11/07/2005 07:45:25 PM
Yep - to live is to die. I find the processing enormously overdone here. Composition is fine, in a kind of stock manner, and the smoke is well brought out.
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 11/07/2005 07:07:29 AM
Choice, I like the result here. Maybe I would have turned him just slightly more away so that the far cheek doesn't come into the frame. It looks a little out of place somehow, but still one of the best shots here!
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 11/07/2005 06:10:47 AM
Good idea. Geat lightitng. Too much "open" space. By ALL means, always try to avoid "up-the-nose" shots.
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