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Challenge: Shadows V (Basic Editing)
Collection: Portfolio
Camera: Panasonic DMC-FZ5
Location: back step
Date: Dec 23, 2008
Aperture: 3.2
ISO: 80
Shutter: 1/125
Galleries: Abstract
Date Uploaded: Dec 23, 2008

[Dec. 30th, 2008 04:06:15 PM]

Yikes! My 2nd posthumous red in a month! (Hope this doesn't mean the camera I took this with is doomed before I can make another entry with it as happened with the first one).

Took this through a double paned window at the end of the day. It is true that we had a brief period of sun with "real" shadows, but I wasn't excited by any of my attempts. As well, I had this sort of Aha! experience looking at the snow, realizing that all the definition of its contours came from shadowing - sort of like the photographic exercise of painting an egg white and placing it on a white ground and photographing it every which way in every kind of light which I have never done.

So despite my knowing that this would not go over ribboningly I satisfied my own conceptual standards of meeting the challenge. What has impressed me from the comments was how genuinely hard people tried to see the shadows. Not kidding - I am moved.

Truly the best thing about these contests is that you never know what your entry will catch in its net.

By the way, I did experiment with the contrast to deepen the shadowing, but found I preferred the subtlety of this. (I cropped, tweaked the gamma, and possibly lessened the saturation, downsized, sharpened and compressed, in Irfanview).

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Olympus OM-D E-M1 Mark III
Canon EF 24-105mm f/4.0 L IS
 12/31/2008 01:30:04 PM
Woo hoo! Another Posthumous!! I still have yet to achieve that glory, so I am terribly envious of your growing cache of the things. And what's the story on the cameras??
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
Canon EOS-350D Rebel XT
Sigma 18-50mm f/2.8 EX DC for Canon
 12/30/2008 07:31:28 PM
shadow?
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OM System OM-5
Olympus 17mm f/1.8 M.Zuiko
12/30/2008 06:58:01 PM
I like the photo but I don't really see shadows
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Canon EOS-40D
Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II
 12/30/2008 02:11:52 PM
This is such a beautiful, refined abstract. I might have given you a blue, but I gave that to a shadowier image. Still, this uses shading if not shadow. I give you a Posthumous Red.

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Canon EOS-400D Rebel XTi
Sigma 18-200mm f/3.5-6.3 DC OS for Canon
 12/29/2008 10:35:06 PM
Nice shot, but I don't see any distinct shadows.
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Canon EOS-5D Mark IV
Canon EF 24-105mm f/4.0 L IS II USM Lens
 12/29/2008 02:48:56 AM
A good still life, subtle shadows inside the vessel. The composition is good. And, I do see some shadows. Bumping this up.
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Canon EOS-40D
Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 USM
 12/27/2008 08:31:58 PM
wonderfully exposed, but where are the shadows?
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Olympus E-400
Olympus 14-42mm f.3.5-5.6 ED Zuiko Digital Zoom
 12/27/2008 02:51:10 PM
looking like a snow elephant~! Not sure that "Shadows" jump out at me in this though. Some lovely minimalist lines - great simplicity: I wonder how this would have turned out had it been converted to black and white and had the balances of brightness/contrast stretched...?
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Canon EOS-450D Rebel XSi
Canon EF 50mm f/1.4 USM
 12/27/2008 09:53:47 AM
I guess I just don't see the shadows, and it's difficult to tell what I'm looking at.
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Nikon D700
Nikon AF-S NIKKOR 24-70mm f/2.8G ED
 12/26/2008 06:18:26 PM
Don't see any shadows here at all
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Nikon D7000
Nikon AF-S DX 18-105 f/3.5-5.6 ED VR
 12/25/2008 08:03:22 PM
I can hardly distinguish any shadows here.
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Nikon D750
Nikon AF-S Nikkor 17-35mm f/2.8D IF-ED
 12/24/2008 12:30:35 PM
Great shot. No shadows.
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Canon EOS-40D
Canon EF-S 17-55mm f/2.8 IS USM
 12/24/2008 10:54:17 AM
Where are the shadows?
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Nikon D700
Sigma 24-70mm f/2.8 EX DG Macro for Nikon
 12/24/2008 04:00:08 AM
Lovely shot but I'm struggling to see the shadows
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