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Challenge: Childhood Without Children II (Basic Editing)
Camera: Canon EOS-300D Rebel
Lens: Sigma 20mm f/1.8 EX Aspherical DG DF RF for Canon
Location: My daughters bedroom
Date: Jan 21, 2008
Aperture: f/2.8
ISO: 400
Shutter: 1.3sec
Galleries: Emotive, Black and White
Date Uploaded: Jan 21, 2008

 My little girl Lara (4) is full of childhood fears. So here is my tribute to the little girl facing all those fears. I actually shot this in her bedroom and I have to make sure she won't see this picture. She'll be terrified.

The guy under the bed is me. A snoot flash lights my hand. The bedlight provides a dramatic look, as well as texture to the wall. Spill light from the corridor provides fill. My other hand shakes the ghost (which I know will go unnoticed by many DPC-voters). I tried to add some dramatic shadows as well, but they didn't work out the way I planned, so I skipped them.

PP:
Channel mixer
Curves
Crop/resize
USM

Use of b/w, overall dark tones and heavy contrast are supposed to add the the dramatic feel of the pic.

No idea how the crowd will like this. Some DPC-voters dislike negative associations, especially if kids are involved. Dark pics are not in fashion either. So I am guessing it will somewhere low 5ish, with some high votes from people loving drama or relating to the theme.

Statistics
Place: 37 out of 141
Avg (all users): 5.4321
Avg (commenters): 7.0000
Avg (participants): 5.5231
Avg (non-participants): 5.3989
Views since voting: 5232
Views during voting: 477
Votes: 243
Comments: 22
Favorites: 0

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 01/30/2008 02:04:47 AM
I don't understand scoring but this works completely!
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
01/29/2008 07:08:59 PM
Interesting idea for the challenge â not sure why you decided not to crop out the left wall, without which the image would have more âspookyâ effect. Hope it does well.
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 01/29/2008 01:47:28 PM
great sense of humor and interpretation of the contest
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 01/27/2008 09:44:35 PM
AHHHHHH!!!!!
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 01/26/2008 01:00:42 PM
Cool!
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 01/26/2008 11:42:34 AM
You are sick!!! 8
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 01/25/2008 09:34:11 PM
I love the concept. The way in which you have appeared to use a long exposure time to capture the situattion is this dimly lit room is really impressive. I like such details as the shadow cast by the power cord on the left-hand wall and the pure whiteness a la portal surrounding the night light. I am a little confused as to the identity of the blur to the right of the power socket and wonder if the picture could have been completed without it.
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 01/25/2008 01:10:12 AM
Great idea!
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 01/24/2008 08:15:36 PM
creeeeppyy!! I wish the picture was less gray though...
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 01/24/2008 03:32:45 PM
Great idea... but since you can not have a child on bed you could have made a fun title like, "out of time monster" or something like that. 6
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 01/24/2008 03:07:12 PM
Great idea and execution! I think it would be even better if the boogie man were more in the shadows or more of a shadow.
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 01/24/2008 11:29:27 AM
different take on this challenge I like it
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 01/24/2008 06:36:50 AM
I love it. Very good idea. It took a second to get the point, and the title was a big help. Maybe a "little" more detail on the monster, just to bring it up. Very cool, though. Good work.
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 01/24/2008 12:49:23 AM
I knew there were creepy things under the bed!
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 01/23/2008 09:51:56 PM
aside from maybe a scary shadow, i'm not sure what it is you were trying to portray here. i think the b&w works.
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 01/23/2008 08:18:52 PM
You did it! You have the proof. When I was young I would hear him but when l turned on the light and looked he'd be gone. LOL, I had to say it. Anyway I really like the shot and I hope you do well with it.
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 01/23/2008 07:10:38 PM
oh this is creepy. the bleakness of the room certainly adds an air of scariness to the whole shot
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 01/23/2008 06:00:31 PM
Wow... that's seriously CREEPY!! Every childs worst nightmare visualized in black and white. Great shot!
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 01/23/2008 01:17:24 PM
what???????
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 01/23/2008 09:29:02 AM
very creative!
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 01/23/2008 01:31:15 AM
disturbing.......
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 01/23/2008 12:55:30 AM
Wow, this is dark... in a weird way... I like the lighting though!
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