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Challenge: Shadows V (Basic Editing)
Collection: Portfolio
Camera: Panasonic DMC-FZ5
Location: back step
Date: Dec 23, 2008
Aperture: 3.2
ISO: 80
Shutter: 1/125
Galleries: Abstract
Date Uploaded: Dec 23, 2008
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[Dec. 30th, 2008 04:06:15 PM]
Yikes! My 2nd posthumous red in a month! (Hope this doesn't mean the camera I took this with is doomed before I can make another entry with it as happened with the first one).
Took this through a double paned window at the end of the day. It is true that we had a brief period of sun with "real" shadows, but I wasn't excited by any of my attempts. As well, I had this sort of Aha! experience looking at the snow, realizing that all the definition of its contours came from shadowing - sort of like the photographic exercise of painting an egg white and placing it on a white ground and photographing it every which way in every kind of light which I have never done.
So despite my knowing that this would not go over ribboningly I satisfied my own conceptual standards of meeting the challenge. What has impressed me from the comments was how genuinely hard people tried to see the shadows. Not kidding - I am moved.
Truly the best thing about these contests is that you never know what your entry will catch in its net.
By the way, I did experiment with the contrast to deepen the shadowing, but found I preferred the subtlety of this. (I cropped, tweaked the gamma, and possibly lessened the saturation, downsized, sharpened and compressed, in Irfanview). |
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12/31/2008 01:30:04 PM |
| Woo hoo! Another Posthumous!! I still have yet to achieve that glory, so I am terribly envious of your growing cache of the things. And what's the story on the cameras?? |
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12/30/2008 07:31:28 PM |
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12/30/2008 06:58:01 PM |
| I like the photo but I don't really see shadows |
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12/30/2008 02:11:52 PM |
This is such a beautiful, refined abstract. I might have given you a blue, but I gave that to a shadowier image. Still, this uses shading if not shadow. I give you a Posthumous Red.
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12/29/2008 10:35:06 PM |
| Nice shot, but I don't see any distinct shadows. |
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12/29/2008 02:48:56 AM |
| A good still life, subtle shadows inside the vessel. The composition is good. And, I do see some shadows. Bumping this up. |
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12/27/2008 08:31:58 PM |
| wonderfully exposed, but where are the shadows? |
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12/27/2008 02:51:10 PM |
| looking like a snow elephant~! Not sure that "Shadows" jump out at me in this though. Some lovely minimalist lines - great simplicity: I wonder how this would have turned out had it been converted to black and white and had the balances of brightness/contrast stretched...? |
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12/27/2008 09:53:47 AM |
| I guess I just don't see the shadows, and it's difficult to tell what I'm looking at. |
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12/26/2008 06:18:26 PM |
| Don't see any shadows here at all |
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12/25/2008 08:03:22 PM |
| I can hardly distinguish any shadows here. |
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12/24/2008 12:30:35 PM |
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12/24/2008 10:54:17 AM |
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12/24/2008 04:00:08 AM |
| Lovely shot but I'm struggling to see the shadows |
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