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Challenge: Black & White II (Basic Editing I)
Camera: Canon PowerShot S50
Location: Randolph-Macon Womens College, Lynchburg, VA
Date: Nov 14, 2004
Aperture: 2.8
ISO: 50
Shutter: 1/40
Galleries: Interior, Architecture
Date Uploaded: Nov 16, 2004

 So, I was at this Eid dinner for the end of Ramadan...it was interesting as this was the first I'd ever been to. I went with a friend who is dating a Muslim, so she has a high interest in the traditions. The food was good, too.

Well, I knew the B&W challenge was going on, so I looked around for something to shoot. The dinner was taking place at a college near my house, and it's a nice old place with nice old fixtures...doors, moulding, marble floors, and the lights...everything is cool. So I decided to take a shot of the chandelier over my head between the cous cous and the baklava.

The shot is a bit under-exposed to increase the contrast, and the image was cropped, changed to greyscale (for some reason, using desaturate was pumping lots of noise into the image), and then I screwed around with the levels for a while.

Anywho, there yah go...this is no winner, but at least I was consistent in my shot quality ;)

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Nikon D70s
Sigma 70-300mm f/4-5.6 APO DG Macro for Nikon
 11/22/2004 02:48:20 PM
SWEET! Very very nice. I love the lighting and composition. Awesome reflections on the ceiling. Great out of center placement, and the small radial spikes off the light sources is a great touch.
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Canon EOS-20D
Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 Macro
 11/20/2004 07:55:21 PM
Lights cast an interesting pattern on ceiling and contrast nicely producing a slight vignetting
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Olympus E-300 EVOLT
 11/18/2004 12:06:13 AM
minunat! very interesting interplay of light and shade, positive and negative space, bright and dark surfaces. i find the dialogue between the tangible and the intangible (actual object and its projection) particularly interesting. also, the way in which the light circulates in the image and the multiple channels through which it reaches the viewer makes for a subtle story--light, and not the chandelier, becomes the protagonist of your photograph. the more i look at this image, the cooler i find it :) it challenges the distinction between material and immaterial space, real and imagined world. the chandelier--the tangible object--leads me to the space of shadows and projections, a space in which i can redefine reality... and then, which of the two dimensions is real? and what is reality? VERY cool...
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Nikon D300
Nikon AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor 18-70mm f/3.5-4.5G IF-ED
 11/17/2004 03:51:43 PM
nicely captured!
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Olympus C-8080
 11/17/2004 09:57:01 AM
I like the light reflections on the ceiling, but not sure about the rest of the photo.
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