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My Last Smoke?
My Last Smoke?
buzzrock


Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Unanswered Questions (Classic Editing)
Camera: Sony DSC-F717
Location: My Office
Date: Jul 6, 2003
Date Uploaded: Jul 6, 2003

 Last Minute Shot--

Just me and my cig, but I though it had a little something..

Or maybe its just the beers making it look good..

Used Setz's Tutorial on Sepia for the Colors (thanks)

Statistics
Place: 57 out of 88
Avg (all users): 5.1233
Avg (commenters): 6.7500
Avg (participants): 5.0000
Avg (non-participants): 5.2222
Views since voting: 923
Votes: 146
Comments: 5
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07/09/2003 11:57:22 PM
Wonderfully evocative! Macro and point of view work well here, as does DOF. 9
 07/08/2003 07:09:44 PM
See this is where you're messing up... you can't call it your last cuz then you're doomed to fail and once you fail you feel guilty and smoke. You just have to not think about it and then eventually the smell will make you nauseous, as with me. 2.5 years without now and I have NO desire to smoke ever again. It's SO nice to breathe again :) Good luck!
BTW, the sephia adds to the tarry look and feel, good choice. If I could vote on this i'd give it a 7.
 07/08/2003 11:01:22 AM
Let's hope so. : )
 07/07/2003 09:39:23 AM
you spoiled some of this by giving me the question.. still liked the image
 07/07/2003 12:47:46 AM
Wow.

Nice take on this challenge. Personalized, off center, good use of colors/tones, love the depth of field.

This shot may be my favorite for this contest. The composition of the image is as close to flawless as I wiould be able to distinguish and the creatively personal approach implies vulnerability that aids the viewer (or at least this viewer) to put himself/herself into the place of the artist. Having never smoked but had friends who smoked for years; this captures the essence of a question that I can understand; namely, am I strong enough this time to do what I say I want to do. The subject could have as easily been a spoon of ice cream (gluttonous) or a used condom (lonliness) to express the very human question of why we perpetuate self-defeating behaviors when we say we want to stop them.

Good job.
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