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Life After Death
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Challenge: Religion (Advanced Editing V*)
Camera: Canon EOS-5D
Lens: Canon EF 16-35mm f/2.8 L USM
Location: Logan, UT
Date: May 29, 2007
Aperture: f/8
ISO: 800
Shutter: 13.0 seconds
Galleries: Urban, Self Portrait
Date Uploaded: May 29, 2007

 This has got to be the most difficult set-up I have ever done. I used a strobe to properly expose my "dead" body, and a long exposure to give the ghostly effect of me standing on the side. I don't have a portable power supply, so I had to use a converter to allow me to plug it in to the car's cigarette lighter. Unfortunately, there isn't enough power supplied there to really help out too much. It would take approx. five minutes for the flash to fully recharge between shots. Besides that, I had to try several locations. Some were too dark, so my "ghost" was not visible at all. Some were too light, so my "dead" body appeared transparent also. This spot finally made it at least worth trying.

For editing, I cloned out a small pvc pipe housing an electrical line on the building behind me, sharpened, dodged/burned, adjusted color saturation and brighness, sharpened some more, dodged and burned some more, etc, etc.

Statistics
Place: 47 out of 311
Avg (all users): 5.8684
Avg (commenters): 7.2222
Avg (participants): 5.7813
Avg (non-participants): 5.9127
Views since voting: 1115
Views during voting: 303
Votes: 190
Comments: 13
Favorites: 0

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Pentax K7
Pentax FA 77mm f/1.8 Limited AF
 07/04/2007 01:46:42 PM
This image may not be as evocative as the more symbolic or grandiose ones that placed higher, but the technical skill needed to pull this off is understandably quite impressive. The result is quite well done, and I'm glad you stuck with it until you got it to work. Nice job.
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Canon EOS-20D
 06/08/2007 03:26:57 PM
i thought as long if you not to serious abut it
great
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Canon EOS-5D Mark IV
Canon EF 200mm f/2.8 USM
 06/06/2007 10:33:39 AM
Ohmygosh! What in the WORLD is this doing in 47th place with a 5.8 score! I protest! This is AMAZING! The processing is to die for. The concept even better. And the execution: flawless!

I'm afraid you got robbed. I hate it when that happens!

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 Comments Made During the Challenge
Nikon D750
Nikon AF Micro-Nikkor 60mm f2.8D
 06/05/2007 06:23:41 PM
Creative and nicely done.
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Canon EOS-50D
Canon EF 24-105mm f/4.0 L IS
 06/04/2007 07:15:24 AM
A very interesting concept very well portayed. Good job.
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Sony DSLR-A700
Sony DT 18-200mm f/3.5-6.3 Aspherical ED
 06/03/2007 11:49:35 AM
How come the ghost change his cloth???
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Canon EOS-20D
 06/03/2007 06:14:35 AM
woulld be nice if 8
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Pentax K10D
Pentax DA 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 AF
 06/01/2007 01:24:51 AM
Well illustrated!
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Sony DSLR-A100
Sony DT 18-70mm f/3.5-5.6 Aspherical ED
 05/31/2007 11:08:11 PM
very creative and well executed . Excellent election of the scene and very good illumination
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Olympus OM-D E-M1 Mark III
OM System 90mm f/3.5 Macro IS PRO M.Zuiko Digital ED
 05/31/2007 04:21:57 PM
just excellent .. i love the way the body's lying on the road and the posture of the 'spirit' .. excellent idea and love your processing .. i had a similar idea, and did my first long exposure for the religion challenge .. i called it 'a soul's journey' .. mine was the soul coming out'v the body and reaching up, to show yearning for the spiritual .. unfortunately too much use of vignette and curves, plus increasing the canvas size got me a dq .. i'm happy, coz it was bombing out real bad, and now i'm just more aware of wot i can and cant do in an advanced challenge .. also if i'm at all unsure, and i have time, i'll ask for validation before the challenge starts voting .. i hope you do well in this coz it is a wonderful image .... :) =9
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Canon EOS-20D
Canon EF 28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM
 05/31/2007 12:37:36 AM
Very nice d.e. Bump.
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Nikon D70s
Nikon AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor 18-70mm f/3.5-4.5G IF-ED
 05/30/2007 09:47:06 PM
nice look, I'm curious about your editing steps. well done. Would be nice if the laying down person didn't pop out of the image quite so much. Almost feels out of place. the spirit version fits in really well.
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Canon EOS-5D
Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II
 05/30/2007 03:31:20 PM
great idea well executed!
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