LFGSS weekly photography challenge

Someone able to set up the voting? Not that I've decided on who to vote for. Some strong offerings this week.

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Good work: though this image https://www.lfgss.com/comments/13243477/ was not an entry...

@benborp, congratulations, an intriguing photo, you're the winner!

congrats ben. what's the story behind the pic?? did you just go to amazing lengths to win the lfgss weekly photo comp?? I hope so.

@benborp congratulations. I'd like to know more too. Can't work out what's going on.
Also @wqvm what's the significance of that house?

Congrats benborp!

Cheers!

First idea was for an amusing picture of a person trapped in a twisted hammock. Brought the hammock inside to get more control over lighting and a cleaner background and realised suspending someone from a wooden beam is quite twisted in itself. So I wanted something grotesque. Done stuff before with snooted lights and long exposures that does the job. Trouble is all my lighting kit is in storage in another country and I don't have anyone to model. Cable tied a pair of Ay-ups to an armchair to give two cross light spots that I kept off the back wall but bounced off a wall to the right, used the hammock to get a test shot for levels and then tied a belt to the rope to make a wrist loop, set up the radio trigger for the camera and got naked apart from two cords lightly looped around my ankles. I had three or four shots to experiment with - hang from wrist, place ankles in front of wrists to hide strap, little bit of swing good, rotation bad, move hands and feet a fair amount, one big move of head and shoulders. The lights were overheating and cutting out so I had to get down and turn them off, wait and turn them back on between shots. Gave up after eight shots. Picked one where the shape was good and the details were intriguing without being too distinct.

ISO-100
f 13
6 secs exposure
54mm

Minor colour correction (Ay-ups are cool and quite pleasing)
Standard sharpening (to pick out rope detail)
Partially desaturated yellow channel
Heal ruddy great dust spot right in the middle of the image.
Curves adjustment to boost contrast

Posted the image and when I saw it scrolling on the page thought it worked much better without the beam and rope telling the story so cropped it tighter.

Would have liked to get a shot with the same general shape but with more distinct feet and hands sprouting like petals. Would be nice to get a smear of teeth and redness from the face but that would need someone aiming an incandescent source at my head for the last two seconds of the exposure.

Took about forty minutes all in.

New Topic

Despite this week's big Brexit push I'm going to need a fair bit more persuasion, so go on, prove to me that in general it's Better Out than In.

#better_out_than_in

Nice. It'll be interesting to see responses to this theme from (from what I can tell from the Brexit thread anyway) a mostly brexsceptic audience.

The indecent exposers will also be happy.

As a fart enthusiast, I am very excited.

double lol

I would have been disappointed if my cynical attempt to frame my choice as a response to current political discourse hadn't been revealed for what it is: a desperate need to push others to the same dark place where a grotesque, naked selfie is as good as it gets when it comes to self expression.

I'd been struggling with this but now I know that grotesque naked selfies is the real theme I'm much more optimistic

#better_out_than_in

'I am out and everyone else loves it'
5/10/16

*Burns ass*

I like the people on the left who don't appear to give a shit. Sets the tone for 'brexit'.

You missed her shoes...

ehmergerd prermernester

You missed her shoes...

Better in than out

They're what make her...

#better-in-than-out?

She ain't much more than her leopard prints...

#better_out_than_in
The Cycle Lane
6/10

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