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Challenge: Apple (Basic Editing III)
Camera: Olympus C-740UZ
Location: Lodz : Poland
Date: May 17, 2005
Aperture: 1:4,0
ISO: 100
Shutter: 4 sec
Galleries: Action, Food and Drink
Date Uploaded: May 17, 2005

 Big big big thanks to Gosia for helping me with all this. Without her this wouldn't be possible. She was my strobe light and assistant :). The idea was thought through very thoroughly. The main problem was the absolute lack of equipement. We used a wall light as the flash, which was triggered on my command by Gosia - manualy :) The composition and placement of the subject and the background had to be fixed ( we had no choice ) because that was the only place we could get the wall light point. I am aware that on some monitors you will see no border between the background and the table and on other monitors you will see it clearly. I would gladly burn this line out, but I am not allowed to. While shooting after 20 or so tries, it became clear that with this placement it is impossible to avoid this "table line" from beeing seen. The other problem we had, was the fact that we had to count seconds while exposing the shot, so the "dabbler wall-flash" was never triggered in even time periods. In addition each flash was never the same length. Some where shorter some where longer. Human reflex is too slow for this. Not to mention the delay between my counting, my command and Gosia's reaction. I admire her that she was able to pull of, what she did, becuase I thought it was impossible.

Now how to understand the image :)

The hammer represents events taking place in our life. They may be good, they may be bad. We don't know that. All we can do is wait for the "hit" to come. The brightes hammer ( third from the left ) is the actual event - the actual moment in life. The two fading hammers on the left, are the events that already took place and we are slowly forgetting them. The -fading in- hammer on the right represents the thing that will soon happen to us. An event that is shaping, but we are completely unaware. The hand stands for the destiny - it is the destiny that is driving our lifes. Finaly the apple is of course the symbol of life in this shot. The representation of us, beeing hit with many events every day.

Hope you like it :)

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Olympus C-740UZ
 05/26/2005 03:22:04 AM
Thans everyone :)
 Comments Made During the Challenge
Canon EOS-300D Rebel
Canon EF 22-55mm f/4.0-5.6 USM
 05/24/2005 09:55:04 PM
I am leaving a comment for everyone so no one will feel left out so here is yours...
nice shot
Canon PowerShot G3
 05/24/2005 07:47:14 PM
Fun.
Konica Minolta DiMAGE Z5
 05/22/2005 09:28:54 PM
great great great! my mind explodes with anticipation. juicy
Panasonic DMC-FZ20
Panasonic DMW-LWZ10 0.8x Wide Conversion
 05/19/2005 02:54:13 PM
Gallagher had a lesser known brother who never achieved the same fame.
Canon EOS-350D Rebel XT
Tamron SP AF 28-75mm f/2.8 XR Di for Canon
 05/18/2005 07:55:15 PM
Nice effect! Good shot!
Canon EOS-40D
Canon EF 24-85mm f/3.5-4.5 USM
 05/18/2005 05:12:57 PM
great idea
wonder what it would have looked like as the hammer smashed it
Canon EOS-400D Rebel XTi
Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II
 05/18/2005 11:51:11 AM
i'm not sure i could do that to my (fake) studio background.
 05/18/2005 09:17:38 AM
There's a signature embedded in this image :) Nice take, nice idea, lilke the blurs. white spots near the apple present distraction points for me, though.
Nikon D700
Nikon AF Zoom-Nikkor 70-300mm f/4.0-5.6G
 05/18/2005 08:02:03 AM
This would look better if the bacground was more contrasty for the hammer, I can barely see it.
Sony DSLR-A550
Sony DT 18-70mm f/3.5-5.6 Aspherical ED
 05/18/2005 04:23:16 AM
Very original and well photographed 10
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