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The Dream Zone


The Dream Zone
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Copyright: Per Hoj (hojper) Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 687 W: 111 N: 847] (4087)
Genre: Places
Medium: Black & White
Date Taken: 2005-05-05
Categories: Experimental, Mood, HPP [Heavily Post-Processed]
Camera: Casio EX-Z4
Exposure: f/2.6, 1/60 seconds
More Photo Info: [view]
Photo Version: Original Version
Theme(s): Dreams & Nightmares [view contributor(s)]
Date Submitted: 2005-05-23 7:23
Viewed: 855
Favorites: 1 [view]
Points: 10
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note
This is a photo that went wrong. It was taken in the old city in Prague as a snapshot and the settings on my little Casio were all wrong, so I almost deleted it immediately. But I didn't and then it started haunting me. I think because it reminded me of a dream scene with the lack of clarity and colour you often find in dreams. And still there is a certain depth and determination, which I then decided to work on extracting from the original.

First I used a perspective correction tool to make the pillars straight and parallel, then I cropped (to what could be a CD cover format), I transformed to black and white, and I blurred before sharpening to make everything fuzzy. Then I added a lot of gaussian noise, and finally I resized and as a last step applied a chalk-drawing imitation filter. This is of course a wild experiment into the domaine of heavy post processing, but I must admit the process is interesting.
I could post the original as workshop if anyone is interested.
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This is good Per. The composition, the perspective, the shadow and lighting, the single women walking through the columns. Boy, had this been a clear and sharp shot, it would have been the perfect scene. But, as talented as you are, you have managed to rescue it by transforming it into a piece of art depicting dreams. I take my hat of to you for this one. Going straight into my favourites. Love it. I put it in the Dream theme. Hope you don't mind.

Great work Per, looks like a still frame from a very old computer game I used to play (can't remember it's name). But this really works well. Glad you didn't bin it. Great work.

Peter

Wow! I love it Per!!!!
Dream zone indeed! This composition is really open to our imagination!!!!! I don't know if the pp work was huge or not, but it doesn't matter, because this really works the way it is.
It's great to see something really different around here! Congratulations Per. I am glad Diana add it to the theme :-))))
Ana

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  • edie Gold Star Critiquer [C: 659 W: 0 N: 0] (0)
  • [2005-05-24 10:38]

Yes Per,your pp is interesting and works very well to create a mistycal mood,as well as scene lost in the observer's memory,I like overall the fuzzy effect and the woman silohuette that gives life to the scene.
Well seen.
Edie

Good idea....

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