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9th Place
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18-AUG-2005 Lonnit Rysher

* Backstroke
9th Place

Canon EOS 10D ,Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM
1/45s f/3.5 at 70.0mm iso400 with Flash full exif

other sizes: small medium original auto
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suse23-Aug-2005 23:06
*Great* image. I agree with you that sometimes when you experiment outside of 'standard photography' , you can lose some people.....or things like this, people tend to look at the technicalities of the shot, rather than seeing the artistic potential of the image. I really like this because the treatment has kind of liquidised the body into becoming part of the water. That's quite a heavy philosophical statement...
alexeig21-Aug-2005 21:22
Stuff of the dreams
Guest 21-Aug-2005 04:53
well...I wasn't going to say anything but all those bug me too. :-)
ctfchallenge21-Aug-2005 03:18
Ok, the one on the neck is worth a clone-out, but I'm going to leave the one on the arm because it is followed by several going down the left side of the frame below it, matched by several going down the right side of the frame. Thanks! ~ Lonnit
Guest 21-Aug-2005 02:34
You did an excellent job of saving this photo Lonnit. I like it a lot. My only nit is the splash on her right arm and neck.
Canon DSLR Challenge20-Aug-2005 17:56
Wow! I'm thrilled to be getting such good feedback on this image! When you get out of the realm of 'standard photography' and get experimental, you tend to smallen your audience. I figured this would be another one of my "I love it, you don't" images! LOL! I'm really excited that you guys like it!

Olaf, I played around with various tones and liked this the best, particularly loving the liquid-metalic (and as you've appropriately called mercury) quality of the legs. I was culling thru the evening's images and sweeping out the duds but couldn't bring myself to delete this image no matter how many times I sorted thru them. I desaturated it then pulled it out of bridge and into PS and just left it there on the desktop while I worked the rest of the images. I still couldn't bring myself to delete it b/c I really loved the composition and the overall look of it. I then played with the toning and came up with this and loved the results. This is virtually uncropped. There was a small edge of the poos's coping stones in the bottom right, extending from the knees. I cropped up a few pixels (retaining aspect ratio) to cut just as it touched the left knee, and then cloned out the rest. I had no choice but to clone because I didn't want to cut off more of the picture and it was just water I was cloning in, and a small bit at that. As for the focus, it wasn't actually OOF, which is why the legs are in focus - She was holding on to the edge of the pool, preparing to propel herself backwards. She was in focus, but then as I was about to snap, she thrust herself back, and I shot anyway, and boy am I glad I did! :)

Thanks all for the comments. :)
~ Lonnit
Canon DSLR Challenge20-Aug-2005 04:01
Yes, this is special, as noted by previous commentators. The image takes on a mercury-look, which is catches one's imagination. After looking at it some more, discovering the "live element", it grows on you. Looks like you just did an excellent job of turning a front-focused mishap into a piece of art. I like the framing. Did you crop at all? --Olaf.dk
Canon DSLR Challenge20-Aug-2005 01:25
Lonnit, I like this - it's almost surrealistic and precariously evocative. - Kelly
Guest 19-Aug-2005 17:08
Nice avstract Lonnit. It captures the essentials well.