This is the first photo for DPC where the final image matches the image I had in my head when I came up with the idea. Normally the idea is much better than the final photo turns out.
I had to borrow the DSLR in the photo and after had returned it I thought of a better way to take the photo so the reflection was more realistic. This one fools most people I've shown it to but if you look at it for a while you realize that mirrors don't work that way.
I'm expecting this to score quite high.
RAW import
Crop/Rotate
WB adjust
Import into Photoshop
Spot Healing for dust and spots
Levels in select areas to make background dark
Lots of Burning/Dodging to make background black
Resize
Flatten
Smart Sharpen
Here is the original for this shot
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This was really my favorite of the challenge. Very original. I understand what you were doing with the mirror, but what I saw when I first looked at it was a sort of portrait gallery, where the small camera was looking at a portrait of an important camera. Probably because of the angle of the frame -- I didn't see it as a mirror. Anyway, congratulations on a good score, nice placement, and a new addition to your top row.
Detail suffered a bit in the downsizing to 720 pixels, but otherwise, I really like this. Good job. You need to work on resizing methods in order to maintain detail and avoid stairstepping.
This is going to be a sort of physics critique. I totally understand your thought process and I actually get the message...funny one at that. Here is where I get really picky. If the small camera was looking into a mirror that was set at the angle of your frame, then the reflection would not be at the same angle as your subject. There would be a lengthening and off-centeredness. The angles would be exactly opposite. Imagine standing in front of a mirror waving at yourself. If you were straight one exactly parallel with the mirror, you would see yourself as you were. If you turned your body so that your waving had was away from the mirror, your reflection would show your waving hand backnot front. Same effect if you tilted the mirror off of parallel. Again, physics and science, not art.
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