I taped a small flashlight inside a funnel and then taped the entire contraption to a paintbrush and sat in the dark and messed about until I got what I wanted by using a video feed into a television to see the image as I was setting it up. I decided on an absolutely literal interpretation of the challenge. (neg#04-4246)
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Good to see one of the few where it is easy to see if someone has stuck to the "category" requirements.
I like this one - obvious interpretation of the category. Unusual but very effective composition. I think one thing would have pulled this right out of the page though. If the brush and bristle holder "called something like the ferrule" had been uniformly lit to make it appear that only the "light had been painted".
David
This is a nice idea.. your spot editing around the edges of the brush are showing. One thing you can do to help preven this is to push your highlight levels after you edit. Subtle mistakes like this one will pop out at you and you can cancel the highlight change and go back and clean up....
Excellent interpretation of the challenge! Personally, with such a stark contrast between the black background and the border, I would have used a thinner frame instead to keep focus on the subject vs the frame. That is a minor fault but I still find this an excellent entry. I'm even willing to ignore the minor compression problem in the middle of the "paint stroke" 10!
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