I'm bracing for a low score on this one, but hoping for the best. It's grainy and not particularly appealing, but I thought the technique was cool, and it certainly depicts pain!
The setup was a pain, too. First, I took a photo of my ever-helpful model in front of a black background. Then, I used a digital video projector to cast the image onto a stone retaining wall outside my garage and took a picture of the illuminated rocks. The stone formed a deep crack in a way that wouldn't have been convincing with a 2D surface (such as tearing a print), and I thought the coarse grain was appropriate to the subject. It was snowing when I shot this, so I had to shield the projector, camera and computer under the liftgate of my truck.
Processing was minimal: crop, USM, and some levels and hue/saturation adjustments.
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Shannon--I didn't guess this was yours--to me it's like a beautiful painting! Wonderful. Something I wish I did--maybe that's why it didn't score well for you! ;)
This is a great picture, and a stronger entry than its final placement indicates. I guess the price of being highly creative is having a lot of people not really understand--and on the flipside, I can't understand the 102 votes below 5.
Being sort of a newb around here I'm not even sure this fits into the "Basic Editing" catagory (Would appreciate if someone would let me know) Other than that, I'm still not a fan of this pic. 1) Too much noise. 2) Odd Hue and Saturation levels are distracting and 3) Nothing seems to be in focus.
I don't know... Too grainy, maybe. Maybe just too busy. Looks like real pain, though, which I like (the reality of it, not the pain). Points for style.
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