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Weekly Challenge Feb 11th-Feb18th:Smoke/Steam
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<blockquote data-quote="Bob Blaylock" data-source="post: 415789" data-attributes="member: 16749"><p>I was thinking more of the current monthly “Light and its shadow” challenge as I created this, but in the end, I think it suits this “Smoke/Steam” theme better. I suppose there's no reason I cannot use the same image in both challenges, and perhaps, as the month runs out, if I haven't yet reached my three entries for that one, perhaps I'll use this there.</p><p></p><p> This was an experiment that came out wildly different than I envisioned. I was thinking of a much softer, more romantic sort of look, appropriate for a Valentine's Day theme. With the light source very distant behind, and my fog machine making clouds in front, I was hoping that the heart pattern of the lace would appear in the shadows in the fog. I guess the fog is just too coarse a medium for the detail I was hoping it would capture, and instead of the soft, romantic look I envisioned, I wound up with this very much harsher, “industrial” sort of look. I thought that perhaps I should repeat this arrangement, using some other subject that was more appropriate to the sort of look I ended up producing, but then decided to go with this; and to consider the dissonance between what ought to be seen as a soft, sexy, romantic item and the harsh industrial look that it ended up having, to be part of the artistic theme of the picture.</p><p></p><p> I used my ancient <a href="http://nikonites.com/education/25599-aperture-depth_of_field-relationship-nikkor-s-50mm-f1-4-a.html" target="_blank">50mm ƒ/1.4</a> lens, with a heart-shaped aperture stencil on the front of it, mounted to my D3200. ISO 100, three shots with shutter speeds of 1/20, 1/50 and 1/100 of a second, HDRed with <a href="http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/downloads/da1b7a10-a0e5-4aef-bf7b-78ad5c575d0c/" target="_blank">Geodesic HDR</a>, and then some further manipulation in an ancient version of PhotoShop.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH]139875[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>——— Added a day later…</p><p> I keep looking at this image, and thinking of superheroes. I most definitely was not thinking of superheroes when I created this, but that's what it most seems to evoke, now, when I view it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bob Blaylock, post: 415789, member: 16749"] I was thinking more of the current monthly “Light and its shadow” challenge as I created this, but in the end, I think it suits this “Smoke/Steam” theme better. I suppose there's no reason I cannot use the same image in both challenges, and perhaps, as the month runs out, if I haven't yet reached my three entries for that one, perhaps I'll use this there. This was an experiment that came out wildly different than I envisioned. I was thinking of a much softer, more romantic sort of look, appropriate for a Valentine's Day theme. With the light source very distant behind, and my fog machine making clouds in front, I was hoping that the heart pattern of the lace would appear in the shadows in the fog. I guess the fog is just too coarse a medium for the detail I was hoping it would capture, and instead of the soft, romantic look I envisioned, I wound up with this very much harsher, “industrial” sort of look. I thought that perhaps I should repeat this arrangement, using some other subject that was more appropriate to the sort of look I ended up producing, but then decided to go with this; and to consider the dissonance between what ought to be seen as a soft, sexy, romantic item and the harsh industrial look that it ended up having, to be part of the artistic theme of the picture. I used my ancient [url=http://nikonites.com/education/25599-aperture-depth_of_field-relationship-nikkor-s-50mm-f1-4-a.html]50mm ƒ/1.4[/url] lens, with a heart-shaped aperture stencil on the front of it, mounted to my D3200. ISO 100, three shots with shutter speeds of 1/20, 1/50 and 1/100 of a second, HDRed with [url=http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/downloads/da1b7a10-a0e5-4aef-bf7b-78ad5c575d0c/]Geodesic HDR[/url], and then some further manipulation in an ancient version of PhotoShop. [ATTACH=CONFIG]139875._xfImport[/ATTACH] ——— Added a day later… I keep looking at this image, and thinking of superheroes. I most definitely was not thinking of superheroes when I created this, but that's what it most seems to evoke, now, when I view it. [/QUOTE]
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