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Challenge: Signs (Basic Editing III)
Camera: Canon EOS-20D
Lens: Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II
Location: my home
Date: Jan 13, 2006
Aperture: f 4.0
ISO: 100
Shutter: 2.5
Galleries: Black and White
Date Uploaded: Jan 13, 2006

 I don't know American Sign Language, but looked up the letters on the web. I hope we got them right.
Used strobe function to fire off the three flashes. It took tons of tries before hubby managed to have his hands in the right place - I thank him for his patience (as well as my daughters who had tried as well).

Post Processing: mostly curves, then desat via channel mixer, neat image crop and getting it ready for dpc. I'm sure others could have done better in the post processing, but this is the best I could come up with. Advanced editing would have let me even out the light on the left hand.

Re the validation:
I asked for it myself because I feared that some people may not know how I managed to get the same hand three times into that photo.
Sadly it took a full 3 days (and 160 votes) before the stamp appeared. After that, the score improved. I would love to know how much it would have helped to have that stamp right away.

Statistics
Place: 7 out of 186
Avg (all users): 6.2692
Avg (commenters): 7.5263
Avg (participants): 5.9125
Avg (non-participants): 6.4545
Views since voting: 1525
Views during voting: 341
Votes: 234
Comments: 26
Favorites: 0

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AuthorThread
 01/26/2006 05:31:16 AM
excellent take on the challenge!
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 01/25/2006 09:16:41 PM
Excellent shot!!! Congrats on the top 10
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 01/25/2006 07:59:09 PM
Very nice..! Congratulations on your top ten..!!
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 01/25/2006 12:14:59 PM
A very impressive composition. Congratulations on your top ten finish.
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 01/25/2006 11:55:11 AM
Well done Karin! I really liked your take on this challenge and the fact that you got all 3 hands in there, cant imagine it was easy, thank god for patient husbands :)
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
01/24/2006 09:16:11 PM
First I have to ask why validation? Very nice sign language study. Bumping up.
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 01/24/2006 12:19:09 PM
lovely interpretation, nicely done shot.
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 01/24/2006 06:21:25 AM
I can't belive someone challenged this.
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 01/23/2006 11:39:44 AM
great shot, love it. :) very nice job 8
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 01/22/2006 11:28:10 PM
love it...new someone would do it!
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 01/21/2006 04:41:16 PM
AHA. The old magian's trick. Cute.8
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 01/21/2006 04:21:28 PM
Great idea! I thought about doing this same kind of thing using 'a b c', but didn't have enough hands. I think I might have shown a bit more of the wrists, or somehow made the lines not as straight. Well done!
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 01/21/2006 06:41:44 AM
A strong image...
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 01/21/2006 12:02:38 AM
Really like this photo, a little outside the box thinking, well executed, good focus, complimentary lighting. Bumping up once more
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 01/20/2006 12:36:29 PM
Love the idea! The skintone is looking a little grey and I think the hand on the left could have used a little more light. Well done.
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 01/19/2006 10:34:46 AM
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 01/19/2006 04:09:56 AM
hehe.. good idea and done well.. 7
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 01/18/2006 08:32:24 PM
I like the artistic feeling I et from your shot. Very crisp and clean. It's also nice to see something very different from street signs.
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 01/18/2006 07:24:44 PM
Middle sign should be pointing downwards more. :-p
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 01/18/2006 03:46:17 PM
I thought about this one. Great job! 8
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 01/18/2006 09:42:09 AM
Brown-noser. :) Just kidding. Pretty clever shout-out.
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 01/18/2006 08:23:27 AM
Great idea, well executed. Excellent.
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 01/18/2006 07:43:42 AM
may blue be yours! 10
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 01/18/2006 07:00:54 AM
Well done, i like the light you have here.
The left hand is a bit dark vs the right one. Very good 8
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 01/18/2006 02:53:30 AM
Out of the box ... and from left field .. great shooting.
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 01/18/2006 12:27:15 AM
Neat. I had told Rikki easier this evening that my first thought for signs was to "sign" DPC but i couldnt work out how to do it with one exposure - and i don't know american sign language, only australian.
I'm glad someone worked out how to do it though!
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