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05-JUL-2006 Charlie Beck

How Many Squares? *

Seattle, WA

Count squares on all the sides,
but ignore anything internal to the cube.

HINT: The total number of squares is greater
than the number in the title of this Challenge.

Canon EOS 20D ,Canon EF-S 17-85mm f/4-5.6 IS
30s f/25.0 at 85.0mm iso100 with Flash hide exif
Full EXIF Info
Date/Time05-Jul-2006 18:25:24
MakeCanon
ModelCanon EOS 20D
Flash UsedYes
Focal Length85 mm
Exposure Time30.00 sec
Aperturef/25
ISO Equivalent100
Exposure Bias
White Balance (-1)
Metering Modeaverage (1)
JPEG Quality (6)
Exposure Programaperture priority (3)
Focus Distance

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Charlie Beck07-Jul-2006 00:45
Many thanks to all for the comments. This shot was tricky to set up, but the post-processing was simple: just a little sharpening, the required square-shaped crop, and cloning away the tiny line from which the cube was suspended. The surrounding blackness was not created artificially in PP, but rather is a legitimate photographic image of “dark.” Regards to all. Charlie
Guest 06-Jul-2006 15:29
WOW great job! A very cool image and perfect square idea!
Cherylm
Canon DSLR Challenge06-Jul-2006 13:41
Unless I've missed something (I don't think so), and given what I think the intent of the challenge is, 90 (see dpreview for my explanation). -- Victor
Canon DSLR Challenge06-Jul-2006 12:44
84? -Doctah
jnconradie06-Jul-2006 06:11
I like the colours and the nice, even, lighting on all the sides. (And it is too early in the morning for me to start couting squares or parallelograms, or whatever...) :-) Regards ~jnconradie
Charlie Beck06-Jul-2006 02:15
I just thought I’d add a challenging feature to this Challenge. But let’s keep it simple. Ignore the photo frame, and consider the cube as if it were in your hand, and imagine viewing each side separately, and straight on. How many squares would you see?

p.s. Thanks for the comment and for the compliment. This one was quite a challenge to set up.
Guest 06-Jul-2006 02:09
Technically... there is only one square (that being the overall image). All of the rest of the geometric shapes are really parallelograms because of the angle of the cube in the image...
P.S. Really nice image..!!!