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There Is No Spoon (The Matrix)
There Is No Spoon (The Matrix)
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Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Sci-Fi Celebration (Expert Editing)
Camera: Canon EOS-350D Rebel XT
Lens: Sigma 28-70mm f/2.8-4.0 Aspherical DG for Canon
Location: Inside the Matrix
Date: Jun 25, 2007
Aperture: f/13
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/125
Galleries: Portraiture, Digital Art
Date Uploaded: Jun 25, 2007

 Yup, another SP :-) Simple lighting setup. One softbox directly over camera. Camera on tripod with remote in my other hand.

I bent the spoon in a vice. No I didn't, there is no spoon :-) The background is a combination of WingDings and Noise with motion blurs applied. To avoid DQ, I had to shoot the background I had created from my computer monitor and then re-add it. I lost some quality, but it was a necessary evil

Wake Up Voters.

Statistics
Place: 33 out of 93
Avg (all users): 5.9681
Avg (commenters): 6.7619
Avg (participants): 5.7719
Avg (non-participants): 6.0258
Views since voting: 2561
Views during voting: 572
Votes: 251
Comments: 23
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 07/06/2007 01:38:08 PM
Originally posted by yanko:
Does that jacket give you super powers? :P


Why, yes, it does :-)
 07/06/2007 12:56:23 AM
Notsobadda score. :)
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
07/03/2007 01:57:18 PM
You look like you are sad that the spoon "is not"
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 07/03/2007 11:46:35 AM
lol! sweet idea..
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 07/03/2007 08:20:37 AM
I missed that part of the Matrix (not having seen all of it), so I had no idea Uri Geller was involved in it. ;-Þ It does seem that there *is* a spoon. There is no cheese, though.
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 07/02/2007 06:46:35 PM
Good composition on the photo. I think the background may be a bit too distracting for the photo but that is not a major problem. Great Idea!
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 07/02/2007 05:54:24 PM
Does that jacket give you super powers? :P
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 07/02/2007 11:57:05 AM
Excellent detail and light.
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 07/02/2007 02:48:53 AM
original idea for the challenge, expression is classic
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 07/01/2007 01:22:31 PM
I saw this thumb the other day when I looked at them all. I wonder to myself about the image. For me, I think there is just to much separation between the background 'matrix code' and the model. They don't feel connected in the image. Also, even though it is nice even lighting, it just bothers me for some reason, like it is 'too' clean for the concept of this image.
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 07/01/2007 08:02:40 AM
There is no spoon... there is also no cheese which is a surprise!
:o)
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 06/30/2007 03:31:12 PM
If only you were wearing ultra thin mirrored sunglasses! But this is cool and funny...
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 06/30/2007 07:58:51 AM
lol, great simple humor. 9
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 06/29/2007 11:54:06 PM
Heh :)
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 06/29/2007 05:29:32 PM
Looks like you are trying to figure out how to use a bent spoon. Like refering to the manual of the bent spoon.
But in a way it works as well, as it doesn't look like you are looking at the spoon, even though you are holding it.
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 06/29/2007 02:07:05 PM
its YOU bending...haha, nice concept, nicely put together. the background is super noisy though. Not sure If its ment to be like that or not. anyways, thumbs up from me!
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 06/29/2007 08:22:54 AM
They have drugs for that...
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 06/29/2007 07:47:52 AM
yes. nice lighting and the simplest science fiction of the most potentially complex subject. pretty funny too!
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 06/29/2007 06:09:16 AM
Nicely done, the blown out portions of the hand could be toned down a bit.
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 06/29/2007 04:55:39 AM
the image is good but I think that will pay the fact that isn't spectacular
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 06/29/2007 01:15:30 AM
Leroy????
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 06/29/2007 12:12:02 AM
There is a spoon, but there isn't any cheese ;
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 06/29/2007 12:06:09 AM
There is no cheese! :) I like how you 'shopped the spoon to make it look bent. :)
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