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Info created by Colin - uploaded by Colin - nominated by Colin. A backlit laptop computer keyboard. Most fingers are on the "home" keys for touch-typing; the 'U' key is being pressed. Typing on a keyboard is a classic stock photograph, with endless illustrative uses. And anyone doing it in the dark has to be up to no good.... -- Colin (talk) 21:50, 11 October 2014 (UTC)
Support -- Colin (talk) 21:50, 11 October 2014 (UTC)- Support Kruusamägi (talk) 00:22, 12 October 2014 (UTC)
- Support great idea! --Martin Falbisoner (talk) 09:16, 12 October 2014 (UTC)
- Support --Florian Fuchs (talk) 09:24, 12 October 2014 (UTC)
- Support ArionEstar (talk) 09:26, 12 October 2014 (UTC)
- Support Creative image. --Mile (talk) 13:47, 12 October 2014 (UTC)
Comment The right hand has motion blur, I believe it should be resampled. The model has the phalanges of the toes short, would be nicer if they were long (is more harmonic). The composition of the keyboard looks tighrt, borderless, I believe that a larger space would benefit the photo. I make these comments because it seems easy to retake the photo that has good use (IMO). -- Lauro Sirgadocontribs 14:06, 12 October 2014 (UTC)
- Thanks for your review. You are right there is a slight movement in the right hand because the exposure was long (30s). The only light is from the backlight, which is dim and I wanted enough DoF to get the fingers reasonably in focus. I took quite a number of attempts but none absolutely perfect when viewed 100%. I wanted a tight crop on the hands and essential keys, but there are other valid crops for sure. As for the model, well he's me and that's what my fingers look like when typing when viewed directly from above. Viewed from normal sitting position, the ends of my fingers aren't really visible at all, and when I reach to press 'U' the other fingers in my hand curve back. My wife has small slender hands, and while it may be nice to spend an hour in the dark with some young model with long elegant fingers, I'm not going to get approval for that :-). I took this last December for the photo challenge. It took me a while to clean the keyboard and a while after with the spot removal tool in Lightroom to get rid of the worst of what was still there. Plus colour and tone adjustments. In short, it wouldn't just take 5min to repeat and I'd have no guarantee of improvement. -- Colin (talk) 20:05, 12 October 2014 (UTC)
- I appreciate the feedback, and yes you're right, the composition is very personal and intuitive. I liked the overall look of the photo, thank you again : ) -- Lauro Sirgadocontribs 23:29, 12 October 2014 (UTC)
- Thanks for your review. You are right there is a slight movement in the right hand because the exposure was long (30s). The only light is from the backlight, which is dim and I wanted enough DoF to get the fingers reasonably in focus. I took quite a number of attempts but none absolutely perfect when viewed 100%. I wanted a tight crop on the hands and essential keys, but there are other valid crops for sure. As for the model, well he's me and that's what my fingers look like when typing when viewed directly from above. Viewed from normal sitting position, the ends of my fingers aren't really visible at all, and when I reach to press 'U' the other fingers in my hand curve back. My wife has small slender hands, and while it may be nice to spend an hour in the dark with some young model with long elegant fingers, I'm not going to get approval for that :-). I took this last December for the photo challenge. It took me a while to clean the keyboard and a while after with the spot removal tool in Lightroom to get rid of the worst of what was still there. Plus colour and tone adjustments. In short, it wouldn't just take 5min to repeat and I'd have no guarantee of improvement. -- Colin (talk) 20:05, 12 October 2014 (UTC)
- Support Interesting and creative image! --Halavar (talk) 16:05, 12 October 2014 (UTC)
- Support --Tuxyso (talk) 17:15, 12 October 2014 (UTC)
- Support, but did you have to press the shutter with your nose? ;-) --DXR (talk) 20:42, 12 October 2014 (UTC)
- :-) -- Colin (talk) 21:16, 12 October 2014 (UTC)
Oppose Very interesting and wonderful idea, but I'm not convinced by the result, sorry. I dislike the tight crop, and there is no harmony among the fingers. The motion blur is disturbing too.--Jebulon (talk) 21:03, 12 October 2014 (UTC)- Support --King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 09:13, 13 October 2014 (UTC)
- Support --El Grafo (talk) 11:10, 13 October 2014 (UTC)
- Oppose Not wow for me, sorry -- Jiel (talk) 21:43, 13 October 2014 (UTC)
- Oppose bad crop for a keyboard. --Alchemist-hp (talk) 10:01, 15 October 2014 (UTC)
- Oppose per Jebulon--Claus (talk) 19:24, 17 October 2014 (UTC)
- Support The crop seems fine to me. PointsofNoReturn (talk) 23:52, 18 October 2014 (UTC)
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