***round 5 - Due: 04.22.07***

It was the very last minute for me... LITTERALLY... but I'm in... I think.

I kept taking pics that illustrated shallow DOF, but I kept asking myself if I was simply replacing the coke can, mailbox, or hanger... with something else... like a turtle. I took a shot of a turtle that was camoflaged in his surroundings... and then put the shallow DOF on him... as if to say "here I am, hiding in all this"... but then I started seeing him as the coke can... so I didn't submit that. Another shot that I wanted to do... but didn't was to have the arm of a "rich person" extending some cash to the open, dirty hand of a poor person... like a nice suit on the one guy... and then torn up bum as the other guy... and have an out of focus car emblem on the rich guy's side... and a tin cup on the ground on the poor guy's side...

I thought something like that would have been appropriate also... but nope. Didn't do that either. I'm hoping somebody took advantage of the special effects aspects of shallow DOF... even in your filmmaking... you can put the effects that you can't afford in the blurry background and people will see more then is really there... it will be interesting to see what everybody came up with.
 
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There are some great pics in this round. I just wish there were more of them.

MattinSTL said:
I kept taking pics that illustrated shallow DOF, but I kept asking myself if I was simply replacing the coke can, mailbox, or hanger... with something else
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That's something I was trying to avoid, as well. I sat there for a few hours at work trying to come up with something. We'll see if it worked...
 
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Now I'm looking at my turtle shot and thinking he should have been on there.

The funny thing is... I think I know who shot what... but not for everybody... I'm really enjoying these things because you can see everybody's quality constantly going up... it's amazing really.

I also like when I think I know who took a particular shot... and then it's the last shot I would have guessed that's their picture.

... and I ALSO wish there were more shots this round. Did anybody else have other shots that they considered submitting, but didn't? Since we have so few pics I think we could post our personal "runner's up" on this thread... no? Is that a bad idea? Does that dilute the "contest"?

I want more pics!

After the last contest I thought the shooting period was too long... I didn't want to wait that long to see what everybody would do... and then I went and shot my keepers on the very last day! I DID attempt to get some shots that I thought would be good... several times over the past 2 weeks... I just never liked 'em. One of them was a ball on a golf green... with the flag a long ways away... but it was coke-canny... and only after the fact did I think of laying a putter down there... and maybe even my hands on either side of the ball... the other idea I had that day... but that we couldn't make look good... was to have a pencil breaking on a bad score card... and then have a blurry guy cheering at the flag on the green. I wish we could have pulled that one off.
 
I can personally offer my apologies for the fact that I wasn't able to enter this round. I have been crazy slammed with completing the final stages of a move into my girlfriend's house with my lease running up so there just wasn't any way.

I did notice that there were a lot fewer entries but I think the next topic will help change that. This one is going to be one for the masses (which will then be followed by one for the thinkers).

Great entries, I voted but haven't had time to comment.
 
I agree, some fantastic entries this round, all be it, very few... lets see more people participating! We had such a mass amount last round.
 
As I have said in the past, Steve and I keep a close eye on the voting to make sure that everything is kosher and nothing is out of the normal. Well today out of personal curiousity I wanted to see the average vote that people were dishing out. Now, keep in mind, this is the average of the votes submitted by each voter (so essentially the sum of the 9 votes, or 8 if they are are participant, and then divided by 9)

Jeremy 5.55
HorseFilms 6.66
Blaine 6.11
Jeremy Tuttle 7.11
Virum 6.88
MattinSTL 6.44
MIG 6.11
2 in the can 5.44
CharlieG 5
Ming 6.33
KyleLewis1 5.66
Viperfour 7.33
EGProductions 3
 
I haven't had much spare time lately to participate, but I did manage to vote this time. There were some really nice photos this round!

Chad
 
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