The Matrix??? What the hell! Not sure how this will do, but I thought the resulting shot was pretty striking. Had to have SOMETHING to submit! :-)
Technical:
Took pictures of a 270 caliber (.277") 130 grain copper-clad bullet being hand-dropped in front of a white sheet of paper. Took about a hundred tries to get six or seven usable shots, and I settled on this one.
Adjusted white/black points, and contrast. USM was the final step. Pretty hot, high-contrast shot, but I quite like the effect.
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I'm not getting the sense of speed here. When I first saw this actually, I thought it looked like a pencil tip. Didn't really give off a really great first impression thinking it was a pencil.
However, now knowing that it is a bullet, that then makes me think that you processed the heck out of this and maybe it would have been best left alone?
It's a bit grainy, and the saturation does look like it's been jacked up a bit. I'm not quite sure I like that effect.
The angle and framing/cropping are good. I think you caught the bullet falling at a nice time. Your patience paid off there.
I wonder though if you could try something like a long exposure shot to make it look like it was actually moving. That could have been really effective. There is a tutorial Here //www.dpchallenge.com/how.php?HOW_ID=21 on how to do this if it is within your camera limitations.
The bckground is good. No distracting elements there. White is a good color background for this shot.
Focus is hard to tell because of the graininess of the subject. It doesn't really look like it's fucussed that well. Is this why you post processed so much?
Fits the theme of the matrix nicely I think. With all those stopped bullets in the movie, it worked. Not with the title you put on it though.
~Heather~
this pic fail to give me the feel like what title said...should learn this from the picture of flying duracell battery shooting I saw at previous submission
The bullet looks like it's suspended rather than moving. I don't know how you could of shown that, maybe on a pendelum? Otherwise the composition and choice of exposure works here.
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