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The Hypnotic Illusion of Movement in Time
The Hypnotic Illusion of Movement in Time
raish


Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Still Life With Motion (Advanced Editing V)
Camera: Nikon D200
Lens: Nikon AF-S DX NIKKOR 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6G ED VR II
Location: oslo
Date: Sep 22, 2007
Aperture: f/5
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/13
Date Uploaded: Sep 22, 2007

 Plenty of shots needed to get the blur on the swinging thing, without actually losing sight of the swinging thing altogether. I would have liked to use the rear curtain flash for motion blur but it put too much light on things that needed to be dark. Likewise the aperture - I had to keep it open because I didn't want the stuff behind the crystal ball to be sharp.

Open - RAW conversion - Rotate (arbitrary from measure tool along the bottom of the background picture) - Noise reduction (smart, or so it calls itself) - Crop - Resize - Curves (slight) - Brightness/Contrast (slight) - Auto Levels - Smart sharpen - Border - Save for web.


And a posthumous yellow ribbon!

Proud.

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Statistics
Place: 47 out of 99
Avg (all users): 5.6609
Avg (commenters): 6.7500
Avg (participants): 5.5000
Avg (non-participants): 5.7258
Views since voting: 1037
Views during voting: 363
Votes: 174
Comments: 13
Favorites: 2 (view)

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AuthorThread
 10/08/2007 01:22:50 PM
Very cool concept. I like the colors you sued and the placement of items.
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 10/01/2007 09:47:43 PM
I really like the rich colors and the light in this.
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 10/01/2007 09:14:47 PM
If I watch that swinging pendulum long enough, the present scene reflected in the crystal ball may alter to show the future, and all the while I have tokens of the past within view to ground me - it's like some ritual for evoking second sight. Nice tight composition.
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 10/01/2007 08:12:38 AM
Nice job Raish and you got a Posthumous ribbon to boot.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
09/30/2007 10:04:21 AM
I love the element of the reflecting ball but this whole composition seems just too busy. the lighting is also kind of flat, I would have juse left in the ball red cloth and pendulum, the picture and the beads don't add in my opinion
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 09/29/2007 12:48:26 AM
Hmm. Just doesn't hold together for me.
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 09/28/2007 08:16:33 PM
So many things to look at, very interesting shot. A pitty the pendulum isn't sharper.... but it doesn't matter - I like it a lot.
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 09/28/2007 07:00:25 PM
pure poetry in its purely visual way. Time is a mirror that turns things upside-down instead of backwards. The pendulum points to what you call the past, but the present in the crystal ball is now the past as well, is now a photograph as well. The red tide comes to claim them all.

and a Posthumous Yellow Ribbon for you.

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 09/26/2007 08:43:44 AM
oooh, what a cool idea. Nice layout. Love it!
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 09/26/2007 03:23:04 AM
I like this. Mysterious to the core.

ETA: This is a great example of a shot that doesn't need fantastic technicals to be a strong photograph. Bumping up.
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 09/25/2007 03:34:01 AM
There is a lot to look at and I am not clear about what to focus on. The pendulum or the globe with the upside down still life or the picture. Somehow I think I would have like the painting as the background without the white around it.
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 09/24/2007 08:08:01 PM
I really like this image...very nicely done.
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 09/24/2007 06:29:42 AM
the image has a good concept but it seems a little busy - the beads, the picture, the globe, the background, etc. Consider picking one or two items and photographing them instead of trying to fit all this in the same image
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