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Aliens - Perception and Reality
Aliens - Perception and Reality
kasaba


Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Aliens (Expert Editing)
Collection: Portfolio
Camera: Canon EOS-550D Rebel T2i
Lens: Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 IS
Location: Johannesburg, South Africa
Date: Jul 30, 2015
Aperture: 7.1
ISO: 400
Shutter: 1/20
Date Uploaded: Jul 30, 2015

 This was such a fun project to do.
I think most people think aliens look like some type of grotesque animal/human (think of all the sci-fi movies). Personally I think of aliens as "energy fields" rather than having actual form and shape (of course we probably won't find out in our life time what they really look like :-)).

In any case, I tried to portrait our, or most people's perception of aliens, as seen in the 3 aliens in the reflection of the mirror and look for the "real" shape/form of aliens, which may be totally unconventional to our thinking of "being". One could argue of course whether or not an "energy field" is in fact a "being", but then how would you define "alien" in the first place? ... I leave that discussion for another day :-).

The "aliens" in the mirror are actually the stamen and pollen part of an orchid. Other than the "pupils" which I enhanced with a brush, the rest is as it is - they make pretty good aliens I thought :-). I enhanced the color and changed it a bit to fit in with the whole image and I obviously duplicated (2x). The mirror was taken in one of the stables with nice morning light for the scene and grungy walls. The blue energy/alien I made as a fractal flame in Apophysis.

Hope you like, I had fun making it.

As an aside, when I showed this to my husband he said something about the "spider" ... there is no spider in this I said, but now that I have looked at it so much, I do think the glowing alien actually looks arachnid .... wasn't my intention at all :-)



Too bad, I was away and couldn't submit the originals in time, so this was DQed. I can't even see what score it ended up with - sucks a bit, but doesn't change the fact that it was 5th in this challenge - my best placing for Expert editing.

Disqualification Details
Per discussion with Kasaba, no valid original can be produced for the PNG file, so back to DQ :-(

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Canon EOS-6D
Canon EF 200mm f/2.8 L II USM Lens
 08/11/2015 05:59:20 AM
Final score was a 6.5176
Apple iPhone 15 Pro
Nikon AF Nikkor 50mm f/1.4D
 08/08/2015 09:14:20 AM
I agree with your assessment. Well done with this image =)
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Canon EOS-70D
Canon EF-S 18-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS STM
 08/07/2015 10:02:52 PM
Congratulations on the HM.
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Canon EOS-6D
Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 L Macro IS USM
 08/07/2015 01:28:31 AM
I repeat: Brilliant!!!

:)
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
Ricoh GR III
Pentax DA 18-135mm F3.5-5.6ED AL [IF] WR DC
 08/06/2015 07:28:28 PM
very very creepy.
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Canon EOS-6D
Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 L Macro IS USM
 08/06/2015 11:44:54 AM
Ha! Hahahaha! Brilliant.
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Nikon D5100
Nikon AF-S DX NIKKOR 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6G ED VR II
 07/31/2015 06:48:01 AM
Oh....so what you are saying is that light in my bedroom the other night was NOT passing car headlights??????
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