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Stayin' Alive
Stayin' Alive
sylk


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Challenge: Pencil (Classic Editing)
Camera: Canon PowerShot S30
Location: Naples, Florida
Date: Aug 18, 2002
Aperture: 3.2
ISO: 50
Shutter: 1/6
Date Uploaded: Aug 18, 2002

 First I'd like to thank you all for the smarta$$ comments on my pencil picture I submitted for last challenge (something new) and I would like to say that if dpc decides to give prizes to winners I'd like to suggest a few sessions with a shirk as a prize ... to help me get over my pencil nightmares ...

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Place: 147 out of 185
Avg (all users): 4.7105
Avg (commenters): 4.8889
Avg (participants): 4.6812
Avg (non-participants): 4.7422
Views since voting: 911
Votes: 266
Comments: 10
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
08/25/2002 05:31:00 PM
Good movement. I got the feeling even before I read the title.
 08/22/2002 11:45:00 PM
ok cool idea. but lets talk framing... its nice right now, but could be 10x better if you were to crop out the background and just closed in on the glass: ie : //umsis.miami.edu/~jjuroch/alive.jpg
 08/22/2002 08:53:00 AM
Composition: Subject Placement, Cropping, Background6,
Technical: Focus, Exposure, Lighting, Processing5,
Challenge: Does your entry meet it?10,
Appeal: Is it Interesting, Motivating, Etc.? 4,
Total Averaged Rating6. Autool
 08/21/2002 03:50:00 PM
cool idea. that's just one pencil, isn't it? while i like the idea, there are a few things about the implementation i don't like. the waterdrops on the inside/outside are distracting, some of the background (especiall the bright spot in the top right) is also. if you retry this, try wiping the drops off and position the vase onto a large white cardboard sheet (from your local arts store) so that the background and the underneath is nice and simple and doesn't distract. -- gr8photos (4)
 08/21/2002 01:02:00 PM
Love the reflection of the pencil in the water. Makes it look kind of like a star. I think the water drops on the outside (or inside) of the container kind of take away from the over all look of the photo. There is a glare in the top right, but you did an excelent job keeping non wanted reflection and glare off the container. Really neat effect. Good luck with the challenge.
 08/21/2002 10:47:00 AM
Decent shot. A little shallow. No pun intended.
 08/20/2002 10:45:00 AM
Interesting, though the soaked pencil tip just seems so dark I can't focus on anything else, I keep being pulled to that. (Maybe that's the whole point!)
Kavey
 08/20/2002 08:08:00 AM
Nice idea. Maybe I would have chosen a less frontal point of view.
 08/19/2002 02:29:00 PM
I think it would help if you had wiped off the container. It makes it a little out of focus. (6)
 08/19/2002 12:55:00 PM
Good Idea, but I am a little perplexe with what to look at in the picture.


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