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The Thomas Crown Affair
The Thomas Crown Affair
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Challenge: Scene It! II (Advanced Editing V)
Camera: Canon EOS-40D
Lens: Canon EF 17-40mm f/4.0 L USM
Location: Federal Way, WA (Seattle)
Date: Nov 4, 2007
Aperture: f/8.0
ISO: 400
Shutter: 0.5sec
Galleries: Humorous, Emotive
Date Uploaded: Nov 4, 2007

 Took me awhile to think of something, so I didn't get started on this one until Sunday afternoon!

Hope everyone recognizes this from the movie :O)

Setup:
My wife attached a new set of leaves to the apple stem, to make it look more like the actual painting.
Screwed a fishing line into the apple, and hung it from a mic stand. Sat behind the apple, and shot with a remote trigger. The lighting was tough on this, as I was trying to replicate the painting from the movie.

The Boler hat's that I could find were all way too short, so I had to cut the top off of one, and add it to another. Also - didn't have a red tie, so changed a black one to red using selective color.

pp:
convert from RAW
crop
selective color (& sat) to change the tie to red, and the bottom boler hat to black
curves
cloned out the fishing line, a shadow in the "sky" and some stray hat material where they joined together
photo filter (green)
more curves
channels
resize
usm
add noise (hope i don't get killed for this)
add border
sfw

Statistics
Place: 21 out of 83
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Avg (commenters): 7.1875
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Votes: 225
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Canon EOS-350D Rebel XT
Sigma 28-135mm f/3.8-5.6 Aspherical IF for Canon
 11/11/2007 05:53:30 PM
Very nice! I love the movie and the painting The Son of Man by René Magritte. You have captured this nicely.
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Nikon D200
Carl Zeiss 50mm ZF f/1.4 Planar T
 11/11/2007 11:50:49 AM
Lookes too 2-dimensional to me...maybe it supposed to be like that but it doesn't excite me.
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Canon EOS-40D
Canon EF-S 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6 IS
 11/11/2007 08:10:05 AM
This is good, but it appears to be a title and not a scene.
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Canon EOS-400D Rebel XTi
Canon EF 28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM
 11/10/2007 07:04:02 PM
One of my favorite movies, and one of my favorite paintings. Here's one of my attempts from the early days on the site:



Since that challenge was in Basic, I couldn't clone out fishing line. I had to skewer the apple on the end of a wooden spoon, and hold the spoon in my mouth!

A 10 from me for brilliant execution.
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Canon PowerShot S5 IS
 11/09/2007 05:31:41 PM
This is fantastic.... great color, sharp and crisp! One of my favorite movies!
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Nikon D200
Nikon AF-S Zoom-Nikkor 24-120mm f/3.5-5.6G IF-ED VR
 11/09/2007 04:31:41 PM
Beautiful colors and lighting! Excellent copy of the movie poster! 10 for me!
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Nikon D850
Nikon AF-S DX Zoom Nikkor 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 ED
 11/09/2007 11:29:13 AM
Great job here looks like original. Good luck psart 8
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Canon PowerShot S2 IS
 11/09/2007 01:07:24 AM
my only crit is the flash on the face is a bit much on the left side of the face; great set up though
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Nikon D700
Nikon AF Nikkor 50mm f/1.4D
 11/07/2007 02:55:14 PM
Fantastic lighting: the apple has a great 3D-feel whereas the portrait is flat like a pancake. Worthy of Matisse!
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Canon EOS-5D Mark IV
Canon EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6 L IS
 11/07/2007 12:40:24 PM
this is a nice remake of the movie poster, but not a movie scene
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Canon EOS-7D
Sigma 17-70mm f/2.8-4.5 DC Macro for Canon
 11/07/2007 09:21:14 AM
Great tribute to a Magritte's painting.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Nikon Z8
Nikon NIKKOR Z 24-120 f/4 S
 11/06/2007 01:36:50 PM
Interesting image - the apple seems a bit 'pasted' onto the image - but i like the centered composition here.
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Canon EOS-550D Rebel T2i
Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 III
 11/05/2007 11:03:50 PM
Unique.
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Canon EOS-350D Rebel XT
Tamron SP AF 28-75mm f/2.8 XR Di for Canon
 11/05/2007 11:14:57 AM
Great idea and setup. A little noisy for my taste. But the colors are great and so is the composition. Nice work.
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Canon EOS-50D
Canon EF 28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM
 11/05/2007 09:12:08 AM
Great image, nicely exacuted, 8.
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Canon EOS-7D Mark II
Canon EF 28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM
 11/05/2007 06:00:56 AM
Very good just a couple of minor differences eg there should be half an eye visible.
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OM System OM-1
Olympus 12-100mm f/4.0 M.Zuiko ED IS PRO
 11/05/2007 01:54:49 AM
great rendition of magritte's painting!
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