Shot through the barrel of a 12 gauge double barrel shot gun (Zabala). I covered the barrel with a black velvet cloth, and put the cover from the Matrix video tape on the other side. Tried a few different approaches, and a few I liked. Picked this one in the hope of interesting comments. Hopefully, I'll post the outtakes after the voting.
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1st off, this was one of my top 5 for this challenge! Great job. It's so hard giving condtructive feedback on a pic you love but I'll try!
COLOR & FOCUS: Color is good, maybe a little more on the green side woul've given it a more Matrixy feel to it. Focus... great! How the heck did you manage to focus down the barrel? You must have been on manual focus.:)
THEME: Respected.
COMPOSITION: Impecable! An original idea and that always scores high with me! The only little minor thing would be the piece of cloth that I see on the right. Too bad we can't do some spot editing for anoyances like that!
nice swirl of a bullit, good clear refection of "neo" how did you avoid the reflection of the camera? I think I like the contrast between the sharp bullit and the soft gun barrel - cropped like this the barrel almost looks like a skull staring at the viewer. I do find the gray edge of something (upper right) distracting, and I might crop the top a little to make a straight line of the top of the barrel. Good work with the subject - The matrix is something dangerous that must be confronted.
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