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Challenge: Wings (Advanced Editing V)
Collection: Signs
Camera: Canon EOS-350D Rebel XT
Lens: Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II
Location: Tranquility, NJ
Date: Aug 19, 2007
Aperture: 4.5
ISO: 200
Shutter: 3.2"
Galleries: Still Life, Black and White
Date Uploaded: Aug 19, 2007

 Some old photos I bought at an antique store, because I buy old photos... I'm funny that way.

Some dried vegetation that skewsme always has around... she's funny that way.

A luna moth that inserted itself into my windshield wiper and died... he's funny that way.

Put it all together and you have a Victorian scrapbook. I had to do the b/w treatment because in color it was too obvious how bad the lighting and focus was.

mix ingredients on a black photo album. use tripod for long exposure in poor light. set iso to 200 and aperture to 4.5 (should have used a narrower aperture, duh). multiply the red channels to black and white. use curves to bring out some highlights and increase contrast. colorize to sepia. sharpen to taste.

The title: this feels like a page from a scrapbook commemorating a summer of a young woman, a summer in which she lost some things and found others.

Statistics
Place: 113 out of 174
Avg (all users): 5.3368
Avg (commenters): 6.4444
Avg (participants): 4.9474
Avg (non-participants): 5.5897
Views since voting: 945
Views during voting: 297
Votes: 193
Comments: 13
Favorites: 0

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 08/27/2007 10:02:33 AM
flantstic!
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 08/27/2007 06:42:33 AM
Funny I thought this was a posthumous original. I forsee a book of other's memories.
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 08/27/2007 01:03:04 AM
I knew this was yours, but that didn't affect my rating -- I gave it a 9 anyway. :P

I liked the B&W for this, because an old scrapbook would have had black pages and b&w photos. And the slight sepia gives it a feeling that the subject is black and white, not just the photo. Partial saturation might have been effective for the flower, but then it wouldn't have been your image. I like the composition and the light.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
08/26/2007 09:02:27 PM
Perfect in everyway, and I love the tones as well.....
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 08/26/2007 08:44:05 PM
This is really creative and imaginative. I really like it!
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 08/26/2007 06:59:42 PM
Interesting collection of items. The moth looks like it is just kind of floating there in the pic.
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 08/26/2007 04:23:38 PM
Very nice idea, nicely composed, very interesting, 9.
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 08/20/2007 09:26:30 PM
I know you are trying to tell a story, but I can't identify anything specific other than the moth and what look like old photos of people.
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 08/20/2007 03:39:30 PM
Neat composition, I like the tones against the black background.
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 08/20/2007 07:43:38 AM
very creative, I like the colors and 'feel' of the photo.
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 08/20/2007 12:57:24 AM
Very artfully done. I like it.
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 08/20/2007 12:56:56 AM
Seems a bit too much going on with this photo. It takes the focus away from your subject. Perhaps if the other items weren't in focus or in shadows.
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 08/20/2007 12:27:16 AM
gorgeous. tones are perfect.
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