The Photographer Photographed

Challenge #4 in the Le Photography series. Hosted by The Man With a Mask.

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The photographer must photograph himself, not with the help of any other person but with a tripod or hanger or anything tricky and cool. Let your minds do the battle.

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Announced:

Friday, 23rd November, 2012 (GMT)

Submissions:

Friday, 30th November, 2012 – Thursday, 6th December, 2012 (GMT)

Voting:

Friday, 7th December, 2012 – Thursday, 13th December, 2012 (GMT)

Processing rules:

Just Two.
1. You cannot Photoshop yourself to a background
2. Add border, and give a detail on how you did that amazing work.

Capture date rules:

No restrictions.

Additional rules:

Please don't kill or hurt any animals or birds during your risky shots.

Maximum number of entries per user:

Maximum number of entries in challenge:

250

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Monocle

by JKellett

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Camera:	Nikon D7000
Lens:	Tamron SP AF 60mm F/2 Di II LD IF Macro
Submitted:	Monday, 3rd December, 2012 12:52 (GMT)
Taken:	Friday, 10th August, 2012
Focal length:	60 mm
Shutter speed:	1/250 sec
Aperture:	F3.2
ISO:	100
Notes:	I put my D7000 on a tripod with flash bounced off the ceiling then held my Ricoh GRD in front of my eye with macro mode enabled.
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Galleries:	View this photo in JKellett's gallery

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Total comments: 6

You neglected to offset the image of the eye to account for the thickness of the camera!! Even though the shot is head on, I think you need a bit of an offset. Right now it looks very obvious that two shots were taken (one of the face alone & one with the camera) and that the LCD was erased to reveal the eye on the layer below.

Then you have the technical aspect that the image of the eye on the LCD would be very dark due to the lack of light between the camera and the eye. So you coul've made it a bit darker to be more realistic.

Sorry, but these realities take away from the intended artistic idea.

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I had to really think on how this one was done. The obvious escaped me. very cool indeed! Congratulations on the win!

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Great work, how could anybody give this shot the lowest vote?

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I love this!

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Good creativity shown.

Nice work. Cheers :)

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This sort of image is common enough for me to call it a photographer's trope, but I love the framing (nose evenly divided and eye enlarged) enough to enjoy it. Well done.

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