3 different pictures of the same crack. the middle picture is also used as a background. Each picture gets its own curves and levels. I desaturated some of the blue and cyan on the corner pictures.
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The DQ details are vague and unhelpful, as usual. I think the DQ is for using one of the images as a background. I certainly didn't clone anything!
Disqualification Details
Cloning, dodging, burning, etc. to improve your photo or remove imperfections or minor distracting elements, etc. is acceptable. However, using any editing tools to duplicate, create, or move major elements of your photograph is not permitted.
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The rules are irrelevant to a Posthumous. You got a 7 from me and I came back to enjoy it again since someone was kind enough to exhume the body (it appeared on the recently commented on page...)
"the middle picture is also used as a background", which breaks the duplicating "law", IMO :(
I still love it.
The heavy grey sky depresses me with the thought of a drenching rain, yet when I follow the concrete riverbed down through the frame I see that that rain creates and sustains life at the end of its path.
Don, a very creative image here. Works on multiple levels and really engages the viewers eye. As for a triptych, it doesn't really feel like one, but that is a good thing. I don't get the rules myself, but I don't even know how to use layers. What a really like the textures and lines and how they play along with each other. A little bit of sky and a little bit of the earth also "grounds" the image and while and abstract gives it some of that real world feeling.
I studied this for a long time when I first encountered it and I'm impressed by how you came up with turning the same image into 3 puzzle pieces out of which it recreates itself. I agree with JuliBloc that the one jarring note is that deeply saturated patch of green in the corner.
Sometimes, my son likes to sit beside me when I'm voting. When he saw this one, he got the whole single crack theme instantly. He's 7 1/2. I got it when he jumped up and ran his finger across the screen, saying "See? Coooool...". I'm back here now, looking for the 5th image ;)
An amazingly creative triptych. In my mind, it easily placed in the top20 of the whole challenge. Maybe even top10. Perhaps it was scored down for it looks like it had 4 not 3 different images put together? Got an 8 from me. I like it even more than before.
this reminds me of those Escher pictures where you see the staircase continuing on and it disappears - or maybe it doesn't. Love the seamlessness of the cracks stitched together. lol and I am with everyone else, the lower left corner is the only part that doesn't seem to fit. a really cool pic!
emotional landscapes, they puzzle me, confuse...
there's nothing better than a picture that makes me think,
nothing better than some brain gymnastics.
I love the idea, I really do
Placing the shot with the sky in the upper right makes the background image look like a large natural crevasse. Very interesting effect. And the three smaller images look like blocks that were placed to repair the fissure. I like the detail of the small stones in the center image. The only thing I'm not thrilled with is the green grass in the lower left.
a gret image. i love how the crack is continued in diferent viewpoints. nicely done. the background works very wel, as if it is the ur-crack,a nd all cracks emanate from there.
the three...or four?...of them seem a little disjointed; almost like they're supposed to be the same cracked rock, but just at different angles; its hard to tell if its a series or separate places
I like this colors and clarity of this shot. It is different then most of the pictures in this challenge. I am having trouble figuring out which 3 are the photos and how this was editted. I have been looking at it for 3 minutes now and I still can't figure it out. I love that. It is making me think. LOL. Great job I hope this shot does well. -10
this is an excellent example of montaged images with a clear theme - It's creative and powerful - tones and colors are interesting. Problem is I'm not sure how the triptych ties in
This is another one that I like, but it's using more than three images. "one photo or be constructed from up to three separate photos" This is in the description.
Interesting! So many details, and I like how you have the crack continuing through different versions of itself. My only suggestion would be to crop the lower left shot so the left side is within the stone wall. Because the wall's right side is so vertical, it took a bit for me to understand that it was all one pic showing both sides of the wall - my eye saw the grass and stone wall as one pic and the crack section as a different shot.
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