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Challenge: Shadows III (Advanced Editing IV)
Camera: Olympus C-70 / C-7000 Zoom
Location: Home Studio - Delhi, India
Date: Jun 5, 2006
Aperture: 4.0
ISO: 80
Shutter: 1/500
Galleries: Abstract, Floral
Date Uploaded: Jun 11, 2006

Simple Setup - Leaves floating on white plate. Shadows from Bamboo plant. Sunlit.

PP - Cropped, Levels, Hue and Saturation, Minor cloning (dust and plate pattern in one corner), Saved for web and NeatImage with some sharpening.

Statistics
Place: 95 out of 154
Avg (all users): 5.3243
Avg (commenters): 6.6667
Avg (participants): 5.2537
Avg (non-participants): 5.3644
Views since voting: 820
Views during voting: 264
Votes: 185
Comments: 7
Favorites: 0


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06/23/2006 01:59:29 PM
---Greetings form the Critique Club!---

This photo meets the challenge very well. The shadows play an intricate part in the photo.

The shadows don't seem to go with the subject. By that I mean I don't see a connection between the subject and the shadow. That is not necessarily a bad thing, it just makes it a bit unsettled for me.

In you comments you say these are leaves. For me, I would no have known that. It looked to me like some sort of vegetable. I see now that they are leaves.

The composition is good. The eye moves nicely across the photo.

I do like the contrast of the color of the leaves against the monochrome background.

I hope this helps.

Feel free to contact me if you have any questions.

David

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 Comments Made During the Challenge
06/17/2006 05:59:20 AM
Challenge: SHADOWS III
Description: Creatively capture a shadow

Advanced Edit
Zen
Fit: Epitomises the idea behind the challenge 2

Aesthetics: Well composed, aesthetically pleasing 2

Technical: Technically well executed 2

Wow: Real impact 2
Simple but very effective somposition and use of shadows
Total Score = 8
  Photographer found comment helpful.
06/15/2006 06:27:29 AM
Now this is different.
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06/15/2006 06:16:46 AM
Sometimes I think Zen may actually be an exercise in ascribing profundity to things that in fact have absolutely no significance at all. Like this. Is it deeply meaningful? Or is it just simplistic BS? Are the colours important? Are the shapes? It certainly feels satisfyingly heiroglyphic! Plus there's the tantalising fact that these leaves are kin to those that cast the shadows. All things considered I don't think this image means anything at all, but it does ask me a lot of questions, and that's far more than 99% of the images here can manage. So that must be true Zen, yes? 7.
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06/13/2006 06:01:08 PM
I'm not sure there's enough sense of peaceful composition here to really njustify your title; the shadows are rather hectic, and actually the blalnce of the positioning of the two leaves or whatever is slightly uncomfortably - quite apart from the zen idea of the manipulation of materials being outside my understanding of the groove. There is, however, a certain feel of lightness to it - down to your exemplary capture of a sense of brightness without blasting the highlights - which fits your title.
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06/12/2006 01:32:52 PM
Lovely colours, nice and simple, good idea to use shadow as the background.
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06/12/2006 09:03:13 AM
Simplicity done really well...
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