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Cutaway to Abstraction
Cutaway to Abstraction
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Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: 1-Second Exposure (Advanced Editing VII*)
Camera: Canon EOS-5D
Lens: Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 USM Macro
Date: Mar 21, 2009
Aperture: 16
ISO: 50
Shutter: 1 sec
Date Uploaded: Mar 22, 2009

 Shot of open window with reflection on left. The right side is the barn interior. Manual HDR using one exposure to bring out detail in barn interior. Processing used 3 Nik Efex filters plus b/w adjustment layer.
It seemed to me the right frame was an abstraction of the left, but I doubt if it is obvious.

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I appreciate the great comments and awards, thanks. This did much better than I expected.

Statistics
Place: 38 out of 132
Avg (all users): 5.8571
Avg (commenters): 8.3158
Avg (participants): 6.1475
Avg (non-participants): 5.7107
Views since voting: 1559
Views during voting: 413
Votes: 182
Comments: 26
Favorites: 4 (view)

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 03/30/2009 07:08:54 PM
Inspirational work. Thank you for bringing something so wonderful to the table. Congrats for the much deserved accolades!
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 03/30/2009 06:24:44 PM
Quite apart from the headlessness, which is intensely appealing, I would agree that the right is an abstraction of the left: one could make that a political standpoint and still be taken seriously, almost. Personally, I would call it more of a cubist representation of the right, but there you go. I like that there is a head in the abstraction though, and not in the 'real'.
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 03/30/2009 05:46:45 AM
hear hear
your work is a danger to my health
cant breath
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 03/30/2009 12:10:05 AM
I think that's Don on the ladder... :-) Great shot and congrats on the Cup of Grace (or whatever it is in French) with both of the fancy ribbon things - Don's and Paul's.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
03/29/2009 09:28:14 PM
Back to bump this to 8. A photo that asks for repeated viewing.
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 03/29/2009 07:22:02 PM
Have to give you an 8. Not sure what to say, but definitly has me lingering. Nice!
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 03/29/2009 07:06:04 PM
i love the tones in this one
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 03/29/2009 06:22:52 PM
Now this is different. Top marks for creativity.
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 03/29/2009 12:42:57 PM
Excellent! Definitely one of my top three.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 03/27/2009 06:40:28 AM
Looks very appealing and interesting. I am not sure what filters you used (legal?) but would not affect the vote. 8
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 03/27/2009 06:21:44 AM
This is just wonderful. A brilliant ragoût of certainty and uncertainty; the explicit and implicit; tone, texture and graphic grace. And I use the culinary allusion advisedly, because this image has all the balance and inspired fusion of a modern-classic dish. Undertones and overtones in absolute harmony. And it's also a perfect natural diptych, just for a bonus (and presumably to prompt some dismal soul to request validation ... Bah!).

I'd give it a 12 if that score were available. Alas, 10's my limit. Plus the Order of the Thumb:
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 03/27/2009 06:20:11 AM
like it 9
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 03/26/2009 12:36:37 PM
Very nicely abstract. A bit mysterious. Well done. I like it.
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 03/25/2009 11:55:33 PM
A very gorgeous image.
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 03/25/2009 11:51:58 PM
Excellent, nearly abstract shot. I like how the wall or whatever divides the two parts, yet they go together very well.
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 03/25/2009 06:38:16 PM
interesting-9
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 03/24/2009 07:39:34 PM
A new rule of thirds!
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 03/24/2009 04:15:46 PM
Gorgeous. There is an immediate impact and then interesting details come into view, like... you took his head off!

Posthumous Blue Ribbon:
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 03/24/2009 01:54:31 PM
Exellent work to give a striking affect.
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 03/24/2009 12:53:30 PM
i like the feel of this, like someone cut a bunch os stuff out of a magazine and glued it all together wrong. lovely photo
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 03/24/2009 07:20:53 AM
This is really quite fascinating.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 03/24/2009 01:31:09 AM
Nice job, these images are tough to take, very good abstract.
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 03/23/2009 06:05:51 PM
Fabulous effect - this really works for me.
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 03/23/2009 04:41:39 AM
Long time since I've seen a photo of this quality on DPC and I don't mean technical quality, but originality, composition and such. Just beautiful, beautiful, a gem for the eye. I cannot vote in this contest, but I would have given you a big 10.
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 03/23/2009 03:53:03 AM
excellent
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 03/23/2009 02:33:34 AM
even the ladder side would work on its own. shot!
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