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Recurring Nightmare
Recurring Nightmare
JuliBoc


Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Earliest Memory (Advanced Editing VII)
Camera: Canon EOS-400D Rebel XTi
Lens: Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 II
Location: West Palm Beach, FL
Date: Feb 2, 2008
Aperture: f32
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1 sec,
Galleries: Emotive, Blur
Date Uploaded: Feb 3, 2008

 From a very early age, I had a recurring nightmare of lions and tigers chasing me, and trying to bite off my hands. I also had one where "the enemy" had won the war (WWII) and was cutting off everyone's arms. It wasn't until I was about 50 years old that I realized I must have overheard an adult talking about disarmament.

This was taken using a zoom burst (rotating the zoom lens while the shutter is open).

PP -
RAW conversion: adjusted white balance, exposure, contrast, and sharpness. Used split tone to give it a feel of night -- reduced the yellow and increased the blue and green.

CS3: luco sharpened; brought yellow back to the eyes with soft light layer; brought pink back to the tongue with overlay layer; reduced the color with a b&w layer at 50% opacity; brightened midtones with a levels adjustment; removed a distracting palm frond from the upper left corner; added white border; resized; saved for web.

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Thank you Posthumous

Statistics
Place: 48 out of 83
Avg (all users): 5.3951
Avg (commenters): 6.8571
Avg (participants): 5.1250
Avg (non-participants): 5.5088
Views since voting: 1269
Views during voting: 304
Votes: 162
Comments: 19
Favorites: 2 (view)

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 02/17/2008 09:55:48 PM
this is a wonderful image, very evocative. and thanks for the story too. i only figured out in my late 20s why i was so scared to put the duvet over my head (i'm still not mad on it) the duvet (which my son still uses) was bought by my parents when i was about 5. i remember reading on the plastic bag - keep away from children, danger of suffocation. of course, as a literal minded child, i took that to mean the duvet, not the bag. oops...
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 02/13/2008 10:34:49 AM
Oooh this should have scored higher. Excellent use of your lens to get this effect. It's got a dreamy quality but the subject makes it scary. Wonderful job of translating what your mind's eye sees!
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 02/12/2008 12:08:27 AM
Wow! Brilliant idea and excellent execution. Definitely nightmarish. And disarmament - hilarious! :)
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 02/11/2008 09:44:35 AM
Julianne, this is a fantastic photo. It deserved a much higher finish. It's very artistic, and tells a story. I really love this.
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 02/11/2008 09:22:57 AM
Wow, Juli, this is a fantastic nightmare shot! Excellent use of the zoom technique.
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 02/11/2008 09:07:32 AM
Only a handful of people created the "visual feeling" of a memory (I wasn't one of them). Bear_Music did it. So did MaryO. This was the boldest attempt. Good work!

Message edited by author 2008-02-11 09:07:54.
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 02/11/2008 07:56:58 AM
strong work Julianne! congrats on the PHYR!!! (sure glad you worked out the nightmare thing!!)

how you been anyway??

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 02/11/2008 06:57:00 AM
Well done - and enduring nightmare of an image ;-)
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 02/11/2008 05:01:34 AM
Congrats on the Posthumous Yellow, Juli!!
I really like this and it looks like most of your commenters really liked it too. You did a great job of depicting the memory. What a scarey first memory to have!
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 02/11/2008 01:06:23 AM
Well thought out Julie, I like the color used to to depict the nightmare, good to see posthumous giving this a yellow for your subjectivity.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
02/10/2008 10:25:17 PM
I'm giving you a Posthumous Yellow Ribbon for trying to create what an ancient memory might look like.

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 02/07/2008 07:28:30 AM
Actually, you reminded me of my tiger T-shirt.
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 02/06/2008 06:05:13 PM
Nice take on things. Not completely sure if I like the effect, but it certainly gives it an appropriate distortion.
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 02/06/2008 12:42:36 PM
Doesn't really describe a particular image, but it is sure scary!
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 02/05/2008 07:00:33 PM
Beautiful, beautiful photo. Love the colors! Also the contrast and the way it is very abstract while still being recognizable. Good job.
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 02/05/2008 11:11:11 AM
Hard to depict such a thing - but I think you did well. I used to have recurring nightmares of giant wheels rolling and rolling in abstract space... Memorable to this day but impossible to describe really. Not sure how many voters will understand though ;-)
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 02/05/2008 10:15:00 AM
Hmmm.. Neat idea, but the processing just doesn't do it for me.
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 02/05/2008 06:39:48 AM
interesting effect
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 02/04/2008 12:33:39 AM
That is an amazing shot, I would love to see how that was done!!!
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