This was the first idea i had - came to me as soon as I read about the challenge, and I didn't have a better one.
Shooting details - it's a print of a shot I took a couple of weeks ago, printed at home, torn (twice) and then stood on some cassette cases, underneath it I positioned an old video card (real nerds will be able to tell which one). Light is just daylight from a cloudy day, with a little low fill-in from a 100w desk lamp tp pick up details of the video card. 602 on tripod, and that's it.
I considered placing the tear higher up the frame - more directly on tthe thirds line, but I think having the blue sky available is more important to the image - given the haze over the city, it's the most 'real world' component.
And of course I should acknowledge a certain homage to carsten's 'open up your eyes', which probably left the idea floating around for me.
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after looking at this and some other work in your portfolio, I gotta say you've emerged as one of my favourites. thanks for putting out the quality images and giving me something to strive for.
Congrats!! I didn't vote on this challenge as I have never seen the movie and didn't think I could do it fairly. However, from what I understand, you have done an excellent job at meeting this challenge. I found this picture to be extremely well set up and shot. It is one of those that makes me go, "Dang, I wish I'd thought of something like that." Very creative, I think. The only minor nitpicky thing I could even imagine to say would be that I wish it was a bit wider. But upon reading your comments, both before voting and after, I think I understand why you did it that way. Even after reading about what you were calling distortion, I don't think it is noticeable at all. If it does anything, it adds to the shot by giving a feelign of some depth.
Great work. I know this probably doesn't help you "improve" the shot, but I don't know that I could help anyway.
This is the first time in over 6 months of voting I've seen a shot and known immediately that it was the winner.
I've also never seen a voting curve that looks like it doesn't tail off until about 17 either! Superb.
My toaster is now officially worried. Well done : )
I thought as soon as I got the idea (and that was almost as soon as I read the challenge) that it would be a winner, provided I could control the reflections in the glossy paper - and that proved to be no problem. Had to drop more of the tear than I wanted due to it saying 'Epson' on the back. What I didn't expect was to be up in this rarefied air of 22nd ever (and 3rd with the 602z).
JJ - the air feels great, as you should know very well!
Fiver - unlucky - it's a Creative/S3 Savage 4 :-)
One thing no-one picked up on that really bothered me: the perspective distortion of the video card beneath the picture (I couldn't shoot from directly overhead because of reflections, nor could I tilt the set-up). There actually is that same distortion in the sunset, but it doesn't register, and I thougght it clashed visually.
Anyhow - huge thanks for all the votes: you've all made me outrageously happy.
PS. and when i checked in this morning, hoping like crazy there wasn't anything to beat it, the site was down! Pure agony for about an hour :-)
Great stuff. This is the clearest interpretation I've seen in this challegne so far. And the execution is excellent as well. I don't think you need much luck with this. Reagards!
This is actually the concept I tried to come up with but never could make it happen. Great job. Top 3 finish for sure. I just hope that those who didn't see the Matrix undestand what this means.
It's original and creative - I like it. The choice of image you used makes the concept work really well. It's very thought-provoking and deep. It certainly meets the challenge.
Able to capture very clear and sharp shooting at the background of the sunset. I nearly get tricked !! That is not a real sunset ^ ^..just look so real :) If the sunset represent our reality, then circuit path represent our fantasy world. Bring out the matrix feel !! 8
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