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Angelic Pride
Angelic Pride
stephan


Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: 7 Deadly Sins (Classic Editing)
Camera: Casio QV-4000
Location: Neues Palais, Potsdam, Germany
Date: Oct 13, 2002
Aperture: f/2.8
ISO: 100
Shutter: 25
Date Uploaded: Oct 13, 2002

 One of the figures at the "Neues Palais", an old palace. This photo was taken at night.

Statistics
Place: 29 out of 150
Avg (all users): 5.8644
Avg (commenters): 7.0000
Avg (participants): 5.8396
Avg (non-participants): 5.8768
Views since voting: 1655
Votes: 317
Comments: 25
Favorites: 0

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AuthorThread
 10/21/2002 07:35:00 PM
Wow, many thanks to all who commented. At first I wanted to submit the photo with a title suggesting a gluttony theme, but after looking at it for some time the statue looked more like "pride" to me. I don't know exactly what it was at the end but the expression in the face, the raised finger and especially the raised position and the angle made him look almost arrogant to me. And that's what I wanted to show. There is a kind of pride which I think is tolerable. That's the pride ones own achievements for example. But there is another kind of pride more meaning "arrogance" (at least my dictionary lists it). This is what I personally really dislike very much. The angel's expression conveyed exactly that (to me), so I submitted it.

Regarding the lighting... As described in the photo details the photo was taken at night with very long exposure times. The rays come from a lantern which stands right after the right edge of the photo. The orange tone comes from the white balance which I intentionally set to "sunny".
 Comments Made During the Challenge
10/20/2002 10:42:00 PM
Great color, and the light streaks are perfect.
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 10/18/2002 10:50:00 PM
neat interpertation of someone elses art. is that an angel or the mischivious cupid who incites inconvient lust. hmmm he seems to be wearing the mask of a drunken old man? Plenty of sin here but not pride.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 10/18/2002 10:35:00 PM
good.. i like the whole.. orange look.. u did good .. keep doing more pics like that.. they cool
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 10/18/2002 01:43:00 PM
Very nice lighting effect! I like the brown color too. Congrats! bamaster (9)
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 10/17/2002 11:07:00 PM
nice lighting effects
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 10/17/2002 10:36:00 PM
Great colours
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 10/17/2002 08:54:00 PM
great composition..the stream of light adds to the well done photo.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 10/17/2002 03:38:00 PM
real real nice, tell us about the sun rays.
 10/17/2002 12:12:00 PM
Cool........
 10/16/2002 11:53:00 PM
nice composition, like the rays
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 10/16/2002 02:26:00 PM
bad color
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 10/15/2002 07:25:00 PM
very nice shot. I'd love to hear how you did this... the camera, filter, lens... etc.
 10/15/2002 07:03:00 PM
Like the sunlite suddelty.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 10/15/2002 03:45:00 PM
should have brought in more of that holy ray of light from the right side more..maybe even coming from a higher point over the angel
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 10/15/2002 12:23:00 PM
Love the lighting
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 10/14/2002 10:47:00 PM
good framing, composition, lighting
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 10/14/2002 09:58:00 PM
works pretty good for me.
 10/14/2002 09:05:00 PM
Composition: Subject Placement, Cropping, Background 9 , Technical: Focus, Exposure, Lighting, Processing 7 , Appeal: Is it Interesting, Motivating, Etc.?8 , Total Averaged Rating 8 . smshats
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 10/14/2002 07:33:00 PM
The lighting is wonderful on this image.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 10/14/2002 06:52:00 PM
Interesting. Nice lighting. Could be nice in B&W (maybe better). Very nice framing. I like the light flares on the right. 7/10 (would have given it 8/10 if it wasn't so orange)
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 10/14/2002 02:11:00 PM
I like the picture, but I think that I would have liked it better if you were closer
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 10/14/2002 12:31:00 PM
This is great! Where is this angel?
 10/14/2002 12:11:00 PM
Perfect composition, awesome lighting and great eye. Is it just fortuity, that the main shafts of light are highlighting the gluttonous belly? IMHO a little out of focus. But I think, that your tripod is responsible for it. I realised, that heavy weight models bring long time exposure shots into sharper focus. Voted 9 - good luck for the challege!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 10/14/2002 05:34:00 AM
Looks like he's been eatin' pretty well too I reckon.


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