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Call of the Void
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LevT


Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Darkness IV (Standard Editing)
Collection: Portfolio
Camera: Olympus OM-D E-M1 Mark II
Lens: Olympus 7-14mm f/2.8 M.Zuiko Digital ED PRO
Date: Feb 5, 2022
Aperture: 8.0
ISO: 64
Shutter: 1/80
Galleries: Emotive, Black and White
Date Uploaded: Feb 5, 2022

 This is my own hand, lighted by two gridded strip softboxes on both sides from a close distance, so the rest of me remained dark.

Thank you very much for the votes and comments! Glad it struck a chord

Statistics
Place: 1 out of 26
Avg (all users): 7.1951
Avg (participants): 6.8667
Avg (non-participants): 7.3846
Views since voting: 1285
Views during voting: 90
Votes: 41
Comments: 10
Favorites: 2 (view)

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Canon EOS-5D Mark IV
Canon EF 200mm f/2.8 USM
 02/14/2022 03:05:27 PM
Ooooh... so dramatic and intense! A beautiful piece of art!
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Sony Alpha a1 II
Sony FE 200-600mm f/5.6-6.3 G OSS
 02/14/2022 12:54:16 PM
I would love to be able to just copy this and try the same thing. I'm starting to entry photos into juried shows at a gallery. And I think this is just smashing (hmmm -- sounding a tad English, but smashing is just the right adjective!)

I keep thinking how I could change it up a bit, but it still seems like it would be copying it. I thought about an old, wrinkled woman's hand coming out of the upper right and a child's hand out of the lower left, but I'm not old or wrinkled enough, and I don't have little kids anymore. :)

Anyway, what a great idea and spectacularly executed!
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Canon EOS-6D
Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 L Macro IS USM
 02/14/2022 11:49:48 AM
I was one of your 9s. In retrospect I should have given it a 10.

It's awesome, Lev!
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Canon EOS R5
Canon EF 28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM
 02/14/2022 06:27:56 AM
Congratulations Lev! This was the clear blue to me. Absolutely compelling, and one of those images that looks simple but it very hard to pull off well
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
Sony Alpha a1 II
Sony FE 200-600mm f/5.6-6.3 G OSS
 02/13/2022 02:54:47 PM
This is absolutely amazing! What an excellent shot, and what a compelling image! My first 10 given in a long time.
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Canon EOS R5
Canon EF 28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM
 02/12/2022 10:26:05 AM
Exceptionally creepy! Well done!
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 02/11/2022 09:22:10 AM
In my top four.
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Olympus OM-D E-M1 Mark III
OM System 90mm f/3.5 Macro IS PRO M.Zuiko Digital ED
 02/11/2022 12:24:25 AM
what a brilliant image ..
and i'm loving the way your title compliments it ..
almost scary .. should do amazing in the challenge ..
not voting yet . :)
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Canon EOS-5D Mark III
Canon EF 24-105mm f/4.0 L IS
 02/09/2022 11:43:49 AM
Kind of creepy!
Very well done, looks almost three dimensional.
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Canon EOS-80D
Canon EF-S 55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS
 02/09/2022 09:57:34 AM
Very good!
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