After rejecting many other ideas and unsubmitting my last one, I finally decided for this picture.
Setup.
It was taken with a tripod. I used a stroboscope as lightsource. It was the coldest / bluest one I could find. However, this caused the picture to look a bit shaky. I had to hold my hands as still as possible, which turned out to be quite difficult after about 30 shots. As I had to close my arms around the tripod, my back started to hurt, too.
Controversy.
'Rules and regulations are everywhere'. Even right under your nose. I wanted to show the example of authority which is the closest at hand. DPC needs authority like everything else, in order to keep things fair and straight. I DON'T want to annoy anyone who might have been dq'ed because of EXIF editing before.
Post Processing.
Straighten, crop, HSL, brightness/contrast, resize, sharpen.
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Thank you for the many comments! I'm a bit surprised that they are all, in one way or the other, positive. I expected, at a score so close to 5.0, some more people critisizing me. Now I don't know what to change about it.
The blue tone some of you mentioned was wanted indeed. I like blue and it gives it a modern and cold look. Some people asked what I was suggesting. Actually, the image's message is whatever you see in it. I'm not saying whether authority is good or bad. It's just there and it's up to you to judge.
The only thing I'd change now is the blur on the hands. It was not wanted at all, but it was quite diffucult to hold my hands still after 50 shots :). And I'd have liked to clone out a small dot in the upper right I had forgotten to remove.
I'm glad to have gotten the attention of a SC, though. And thanks to kpriest for getting the point and suggesting me for disqualification ;]
(Edit: typos)
I know there is a great message here, I am just a bit uncertain what it is. Are you saying you didn't keep your original EXIF tags so you can't submit the original image, or are you saying something more intense like the changing of the individual? Either way it is a striking image. I love the blue cast, very furturistic/sci-fi. I like that the hands are sightly blurred to indicated their movement. The point of view and angle work very well. Captivating image.
way too much time on your hands. spend it feeding the hungry.
I really wasn't too fair the first go-round---
please, don't get me wrong- its just not my style. Maybe a little less blue, slightly more sharpened/ I do like the angle of the shot though- really creates movement.
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