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Blades of Steel
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Challenge: Team Sports Without Players (Basic Editing I)
Camera: Sony DSC-P51
Location: My Room
Date: Jun 1, 2004
Aperture: f3.8
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/13
Galleries: Snapshot, Macro
Date Uploaded: Jun 1, 2004

My Ice Hockey Skate with a flashlight behind it

Statistics
Place: 138 out of 162
Avg (all users): 4.4861
Avg (commenters): 4.4667
Avg (participants): 4.3111
Avg (non-participants): 4.5657
Views since voting: 701
Votes: 288
Comments: 18
Favorites: 0


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 Comments Made During the Challenge
06/08/2004 05:44:27 PM
I'm a hockey guy...plus this is a great shot! I like the flare off the blade.
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06/08/2004 12:52:47 PM
Perhaps you could have cropped to reduce the bright spot at the left, or recomposed the shot to eliminate lens flare. It would be nice to see the blade mentioned in the title--without first-hand knowledge of hockey skates it's really difficult to tell what this is.
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06/07/2004 11:04:30 PM
cool angle
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06/07/2004 04:01:03 PM
Content is not clear; while the lens flare is interesting, the rest of the photo seems a bit underexposed.
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06/06/2004 09:35:10 PM
If you did not put the name in the title, I never would have known this was a skate.
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06/05/2004 01:28:48 PM
Very nice. Would have also fit the unusal view challenge.
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06/04/2004 10:23:41 PM
great perspective, il like shots like this
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06/03/2004 07:11:48 PM
too abstract for me.
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06/03/2004 04:58:01 PM
Too close to tell what this object is. I also find the flare distacting.
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06/03/2004 03:18:27 PM
This has a lot of compression that is a bit distracting (maybe when you resaved it your softwre program did something to it). IT's also hard to tell what it is, which could work as an abstract, but there aren't any compelling things to look at to draw the eye in - something with richer colours may have worked better. This is a bit creamy and needs something punchy to attract the eye.
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06/03/2004 02:11:40 PM
I'm not seeing any blades here. I really can't tell what the subject is from this photo. Perhaps a hockey skate turned upside down? It just isn't clear enough what the subject is. All I see is plastic, rivets, and some upside-down letters with a very bright light flare at the edge of the frame. It doesn't work as an abstract for me because there isn't any real wow factor in this shape or the negative space it creates.
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06/02/2004 08:46:53 PM
I think it's a hockey skate but it took me a little while to figure it out. The lighting looks alright but it's a bit too close
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06/02/2004 04:13:27 PM
First thought: the lighting is very harsh on the left.
I think you should have focused more on the actual blade than the part holding it.
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06/02/2004 03:56:02 PM
This is a great point of view, but that light source in the left kills the image for me.
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06/02/2004 03:43:23 PM
maybe need a wider lens...I never would've known without the title
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06/02/2004 02:36:43 PM
Is this upside down?
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06/02/2004 06:08:30 AM
Try again, the light destroys this one.
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06/02/2004 02:23:29 AM
Nice idea, I'd like to see more of the blade though - the light reflecting off of that could give a nice emphasis to match the title better.
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