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Dying With the Rising of the Moon
Dying With the Rising of the Moon
Balko


Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Michael Jackson Song/Lyrics (Expert Editing*)
Camera: Canon EOS-50D
Lens: Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 Macro
Location: Albuquerque NM
Date: Jul 2, 2009
Aperture: 4.5
ISO: 160
Shutter: 1/160
Galleries: Digital Art, Textures
Date Uploaded: Jul 5, 2009

 I got the idea when I found this dessicated robin on the side of the house. Then I found a dead butterfly later the same day! I took shots of that two, not knowing which I would use later.
I found the line I wanted to use at //www.allmichaeljackson.com/lyrics/whoisit.html, so I needed a moon shot and luckily the clouds cooperated. I used two textures from CG Textures (they are free!).

Moon: cropped, levels
Bird: isolated the bird from the bg and placed it over the moon image. Under the bird the original was blue and with dodging/burning/cloning, I left parts of that to make up that texture.
Added the two textures, overlay mode.
Resized to 720 and Save for Web.

bird #1977 7/2-160sec-f4.5-iso160
moon #2092 7/2-500sec-f16-iso1000
GC Textures:
asphalt damaged 0039
brick small dirty 0195

Dying With the Rising of the Moon
from Gone To Soon / Dangerous Album

Statistics
Place: 26 out of 75
Avg (all users): 5.8987
Avg (commenters): 7.7500
Avg (participants): 5.6279
Avg (non-participants): 6.0000
Views since voting: 1271
Views during voting: 416
Votes: 158
Comments: 9
Favorites: 0

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 07/13/2009 12:03:46 AM
I really thought this was a top 10-er.
 Comments Made During the Challenge
07/12/2009 11:23:23 PM
Is that a stone or a rock? Interesting combination. Love the textured look.
 07/10/2009 09:01:05 AM
I voted this so high just because I like the way it's done. It doesn't really "say" Michael Jackson to me, but I really like the image. 9
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 07/08/2009 07:25:59 PM
One of my favorites! Just awesome!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 07/07/2009 08:53:58 PM
Challenge Relevance:6 Impact/Emotion/Mood:5 Technicals:6 Processing:7 Creativity:6
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 07/06/2009 10:16:02 AM
I love the grittiness to this photograph. The way you used texture to convey the moon is quite clever and makes for a more interesting photograph. The dying/dead bird is post-processed well too. I do like how you added the textural shadow to ground the bird a bit. I think that the moon should be a little farther way though.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 07/06/2009 09:09:16 AM
well done editing and post processing fits the image and the image fits the title so well. creative & different!
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 07/06/2009 01:26:46 AM
very nice artiness about this...well done 8
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 07/06/2009 12:18:39 AM
That's beautiful. What a fitting tribute too.
  Photographer found comment helpful.


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