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1969. One Small Step
1969. One Small Step
ksymeon


Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: The Year You Were Born (Basic Editing)
Camera: Canon EOS-20D
Lens: Canon EF-S 60mm f/2.8 Macro USM
Location: Kitchen, Home
Date: Nov 18, 2006
Aperture: f/4.0
ISO: 100
Shutter: 0.8 sec
Galleries: Black and White, History
Date Uploaded: Nov 21, 2006

 Shot in RAW. Adobe Lightroom: Desaturation, minor adjustments in exposure, blacks, Brightness & contrast. PSCS: Crop, Levels, Size, minute Colorisation.

------- Post Challenge --------
Thanks everybody for the kind comments. This was such fun to create. It took me hours I think. I tried to recreate the original picture of the Moon Landing by using a powdery substance and a similar angle of lighting from the sun. To be perfectly honest I was amazed at how close the picture looked when I first desaturated my picture.

I bought some wholemeal flour, I thought it would be perfect as moon powder whilst maintaining some sort of graining. Next I had to make the footprint and at first I thought of using my girlfriends apres-ski boots, but decided that the footprint would look too disimilar to Armstrong's. :-) Therefore I had to make one myself. Bought some plasticine and started creating the "boot". I was amazed at how difficult plasticine is to work with (very sticky) - well the last time I used it was probably in the 1970s anyway. :-)

Setup the flour on a slightly tilted carton, using a large spoon to distribute it evenly and create some bumps on the surface. Then pressed the boot against it. Lighting was done using a handheld sinlge LED and tried to get the shadows very close to the original picture (there was a longer shadow at the back and the front of the picture). I wanted to immediatelly remind the viewer of the original and judging from your comments I think I succeeded.

I took about 40-50 pictures, using different angles and tried to do the footprint twice more. The chosen picture was from the first "take".

I have uploaded a couple of pictures of my setup to my portfolio:
here and here

Statistics
Place: 15 out of 102
Avg (all users): 6.3898
Avg (commenters): 7.5000
Avg (participants): 6.2857
Avg (non-participants): 6.4125
Views since voting: 1348
Views during voting: 496
Votes: 313
Comments: 35
Favorites: 1 (view)

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 12/04/2006 01:30:44 AM
Congratulations on your top 20 finish with this very important step!
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 12/02/2006 05:27:17 PM
Very good shot. Congrats on your high finish!
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
11/28/2006 11:42:56 PM
Leaps big for all the trips since.. .
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 11/28/2006 09:38:35 PM
Can't wait to find out what you used on this one. Excellent copy of the most historic image ever recorded. 10
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 11/28/2006 08:12:33 PM
excellent idea .. better if a baby's footprint was there instead
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 11/28/2006 06:48:57 PM
Same year as myself. So must be bonus points :)
good luck

kev
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 11/28/2006 06:35:49 PM
Awesome concept here :-)
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 11/28/2006 06:07:37 PM
Good photo representation of an amazing piece of history. I (and I'm sure others) would love to know how you set this one up.
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 11/28/2006 09:05:15 AM
great choice and idea. 9
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 11/28/2006 03:23:38 AM
Clear, limpid, 1969 all written over it for most, I would hope. My fav' so far. Thanks
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 11/28/2006 12:59:14 AM
if neil armstrong had really been on the moon i am sure his bootprint would have looked just like that :) great idea well done
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 11/27/2006 08:07:47 PM
Great idea!!!!
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 11/27/2006 03:51:26 PM
Good reproduction. Lighting is excellent, definitely gives the lunar feel.
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 11/26/2006 09:01:09 PM
nice job at recreating this.
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 11/26/2006 02:25:05 PM
Love it!
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 11/26/2006 12:33:50 AM
This is great! Very creative - best of luck to you in the challenge! I like it. (marking as a favorite)
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 11/25/2006 08:46:33 PM
Well re-created
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 11/24/2006 01:19:45 PM
is that ash from a fireplace?
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 11/24/2006 12:50:46 PM
I love the idea. Footprints are hard to photograph correctly. I'm guessing you were trying to replicate the actual photo and probably did a great job of it. For a photo challenge, you run into a problem, since the original photo was not that successful as an image, just as a recording of history. I think you would have to go beyond a reproduction in this challenge and create an even stronger image in order to be a top image. IMHO. 5
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 11/23/2006 12:43:31 PM
Very creative. awesome lighting
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 11/23/2006 12:11:58 PM
Great idea and exposure works. Focus seems a bit soft though. Good job.
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 11/23/2006 06:42:29 AM
Very good idea!!
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 11/22/2006 10:30:18 PM
Simple but cool. Looks like the real thing.
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 11/22/2006 08:08:25 PM
Good idea and well executed, but I think a closer crop would have helped.
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 11/22/2006 01:59:06 PM
creative.
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 11/22/2006 10:52:26 AM
Nice Job
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 11/22/2006 09:03:33 AM
very cute idea.. like the textures and lighting you've captured..
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 11/22/2006 08:59:32 AM
so it was on a sound stage, you know have the proof, well done ;)
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 11/22/2006 08:42:14 AM
Good job recreating that. 7
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 11/22/2006 06:41:16 AM
... in the studio? It is ironic that some people are saying that the CIA faked the whole thing, and now we are celebrating this with another fake image. Weird.
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 11/22/2006 06:28:54 AM
simple yet effective!
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 11/22/2006 06:15:30 AM
This is just a great idea and really great execution.
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 11/22/2006 02:03:11 AM
Brilliant!!! This is the best one!

OK, I've had a quick glance at all the shots in the challenge. This is way out front and my highest rated shot of the bunch. 10
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 11/22/2006 01:32:42 AM
that was on july 20th, that my b-day...wrong year though :)

great idea!
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 11/22/2006 12:59:22 AM
My year!!! How did you get to the moon, when I checked, all flights were full .... haha! Good one! Although the pic in itself is grey and flat, it really looks true, so ... 8!
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