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Sexadactyly
Sexadactyly
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Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Six (Advanced Editing VII*)
Camera: Canon EOS-30D
Lens: Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II
Location: my bedroom
Date: Jan 20, 2008
Aperture: f/20
ISO: 100
Shutter: 30sec
Galleries: Still Life, Black and White
Date Uploaded: Jan 20, 2008

 This is one of the hardest setups i have tried. Four flash exposures and a piece of black paper were used in this. Two for the skeleton hand i had - one full and one covered with the pinky put to the side, and the same for the hand (different flash output used to create the "ghost" effect).

Not entirely happy with the result - i missplaced the tops of my fingers just slightly but i couldnt be bothered to re-do it again to get it perfect. Let's hope it doesnt pull the score down

Post processing
Raw conversion
Burn out of black background and slight burn of hand area to darken it a bit more.
Healing of line down the partition from the sixth finger
Clone out of hot pixels
Gradient map with both ends black and the middle white (played around to get desired effect)
Cooling filter overlayed


Hope this does ok - not sure how it will be received.

Statistics
Place: 63 out of 134
Avg (all users): 5.4947
Avg (commenters): 5.1429
Avg (participants): 4.9107
Avg (non-participants): 5.7388
Views since voting: 1063
Views during voting: 379
Votes: 190
Comments: 13
Favorites: 2 (view)

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AuthorThread
 08/25/2009 08:18:08 PM
Archive Collection - finger
 02/06/2008 01:42:34 AM
Just found this. Very, very clever. Thanks for sharing your technique!
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
01/26/2008 02:38:23 PM
Cool x-ray.
 01/26/2008 12:01:13 PM
wow, this your hand?
 01/25/2008 01:35:12 PM
Love this!!
 01/23/2008 01:20:42 AM
I'm not sure what to say here. It's definitely an interesting image, but I don't like how blurry and blotchy it is. Plus it looks like the fingers and bones don't match up.
 01/22/2008 11:22:01 PM
Clever
 01/22/2008 02:53:47 AM
funny idea, but it loks a sif the left finger has been cloned
 01/21/2008 08:55:31 PM
not my taste...
 01/21/2008 05:18:25 PM
I just want to know how this was done!!
 01/21/2008 11:54:01 AM
woa! how did you take this?
 01/21/2008 12:39:55 AM
Wow is this for real? If so it's insane!
 01/21/2008 12:39:09 AM
Spooky...


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