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Challenge: Painting With Light III (Basic Editing)
Collection: Portfolio
Camera: Canon PowerShot S3 IS
Location: Oakland, California, USA
Date: Jun 4, 2007
Aperture: 8.0
ISO: 80
Shutter: 4 seconds
Galleries: Humorous, Digital Art
Date Uploaded: Jun 5, 2007

 Created Photoshop file with each letter on a separate layer, then flipped each letter vertically so that they could be photographed in a mirror.

Sequentially hand-activated the letters during a long exposure to get varying shades of gray, then modified by Tone Curves. Letter 3-D effect created by double-reflection from back-silvered mirror. Technical note: the phosphors which form the light are activated by a MOVING beam of electrons on this CRT monitor.

-Tripod, timer, macro mode, manual focus
-RGB Curve
-RGB Curve
-Blue Curve
-Red Curve
-Resize for DPC
-Crop top and bottom to 3:2 ratio
-USM at 16%/64 dia/TH = 0
-SaveAs JPEG at quality 7/10 = 110kb

Statistics
Place: 241 out of 245
Avg (all users): 3.9447
Avg (commenters): 3.4286
Avg (participants): 3.7541
Avg (non-participants): 4.0290
Views since voting: 1177
Views during voting: 309
Votes: 199
Comments: 11
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AuthorThread
 06/14/2007 03:39:58 PM
Originally posted by pineapple:
That is a lot of work for a (------- note to myself, complete at some future date -------) photo.

I agree, but this is a learning site, and I was experimenting with something new. Not all experiments have to be "successful" in order to learn valuable information.

Isaac Asimov makes this point in an essay called "The Light That Failed" about the Michelson-Morely Experiment -- an experimental failure of such spectacular proportions that it won the experimenters a Nobel Prize.

Sorry, I meant to post the links for the original and a shot of the setup:

06/14/2007 06:34:25 AM
That is a lot of work for a (------- note to myself, complete at some future date -------) photo.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
06/12/2007 07:39:45 PM
very bright!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 06/11/2007 05:22:58 AM
Hmmm wonder how you did this, intresting Idea but Not my cup of tea
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 06/09/2007 05:21:50 PM
nothing really impressive here photographically. Could have just as easily been a screen shot off a computer or something. Not really sure where the painting with light was used to make this creative or interesting. I think in order to appreciate this image, one would probably have to have seen the set up and execution. It's just not capturing my interest.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 06/09/2007 11:21:46 AM
intersting glow created by the lighting - it works pretty well 6
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 06/09/2007 10:33:37 AM
looks a little messy..imho.. I'm not sure what's you've taken a picture of but there's a ton of noise coming thru on my screen.. Maybe try neat image..
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 06/07/2007 04:49:55 PM
I don't like this as much because it doesn't look like a picture, I don't get the felling that this photograph was "painted wiht light".
Sorry
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 06/07/2007 09:01:30 AM
Is this a picture of a monitor?
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 06/07/2007 01:54:55 AM
Not my favorite stuff, but a nice picture
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 06/06/2007 10:31:17 AM
too much photo shop imo, sorry
  Photographer found comment helpful.


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