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Challenge: Clowns (Basic Editing)
Camera: Canon EOS-30D
Lens: Canon EF-S 17-85mm f/4-5.6 IS USM
Location: My Bedroom mini-studio
Date: Jan 8, 2008
Aperture: f/8
ISO: 400
Shutter: 2 seconds
Galleries: Humorous, Studio
Date Uploaded: Jan 8, 2008

 So yeah - you probably know this is a parody of this amazing shot by nico_blue:


This really annoyed be - you have no idea how difficult it is to position this clown! His legs are cloth - no structure, and his boots are a ceramic type material (read:heavy) as are his hands and his body... But anyway - he was the only clown available to me, and this idea came up. Thought i would enter to see how it does considering the small field :)

Last minute jobby - evening of deadline i came up with the idea and spent the whole night just getting it right (lighting the bugger was a little venture into ingenuity with a flash, some sheets of A4 and a kitchen roll cardboard centre thing).

Oh and i was listening to Andrea Bocelli whilst doing this - which is rather fitting i suppose considering the context :)

Anyway Postwork:
Raw Conversion
Crop (to take out some things which were propping him up (a black pencil for the hand on the right, a black cocktail stick resting on a remote;resting on a pen; resting on a fork; resting on a copy of Deathly Hallows proping up the hand on the left. A black photo paper (only thing i would change as it was shiny) wrapped tube proping up his leg, and the black end of a LYNX deodorant can which he was sitting on.)
Levels
Saturation boost to red and cut of yellows (he has a stain on his elbow)
Curves
Resize
USM

Post Challenge

WOW! Not entirely sure what to make of the 25+ sub 3 inclusive votes! That is one hell of a bell curve right there!

Ah well - at least some people realised what i was getting at. others just voted it low i'm assuming because they saw it as just some weird entry. Would really like to know the through process going behind giving this (or any image) a 1 or 2... and hear the explanation for the 19 3's... wow. Anyway, it was amusing and gratifying to bring a smile to some people's faces with the parody - maybe i should have put "(parody)" in the title to make it a bit more obvious...

Thanks for the comments and response :)

The cloth was actually a cut up white plastic bag - it was the lightest thing i could use to not disrupt the weight balance i had going and it was easily manipulated.

Statistics
Place: 21 out of 52
Avg (all users): 5.7608
Avg (commenters): 7.0000
Avg (participants): 5.4231
Avg (non-participants): 5.7861
Views since voting: 1360
Views during voting: 558
Votes: 372
Comments: 19
Favorites: 1 (view)

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 Comments Made During the Challenge
01/15/2008 03:59:17 PM
absolutely love the lighting! Very nice!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 01/15/2008 03:14:32 PM
Great lighting, and I like the simplicity of the color scheme. (Not to mention funny, as well.)
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 01/15/2008 01:40:04 PM
the lighting in this makes the picture...
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 01/11/2008 09:18:10 AM
Like this shot -- maybe using a little more light would have prevented details like the boots from disappearing into the black backdrop.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 01/11/2008 08:32:59 AM
... what's the papery white stuff?

Good shot.
 01/10/2008 10:18:51 PM
An absolute pleasure to look at. Love the lighting.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 01/10/2008 04:54:39 PM
great lighing and shot!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 01/10/2008 03:43:42 PM
nice and sharp
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 01/10/2008 01:16:24 PM
Nice coloring.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 01/10/2008 02:54:04 AM
Isn't he supposed to be nude to make this pose work? ;)
I love it!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 01/10/2008 12:27:20 AM
Great use of a statuette! You have succeeded where many others failed!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 01/10/2008 12:19:28 AM
Good try 9
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 01/10/2008 12:00:47 AM
LOL! i just got it... Nice tribute
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 01/09/2008 08:01:28 PM
great lighting.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 01/09/2008 07:50:37 PM
Excellent technicals on this shot. I'm trying to understand the pose and the tissue paper...hmmm...
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 01/09/2008 06:36:27 PM
nice use of shadow and light, im not sure what the meaning of this photo is supposed to be, it leaves me a bit confused - 7
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 01/09/2008 03:24:42 PM
Hahaha...I see a take off of Nico Blues pose...very clever.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 01/09/2008 03:22:01 PM
Very nice lighting. You did a great job with an everyday object.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 01/09/2008 09:01:46 AM
Dramatic lighting and interesting pose.
  Photographer found comment helpful.


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