MPC #73 UNREAL 9/11-9/25

**kidwoo** · 09-11-2011, 11:25 AM

Harping back to one of the big reasons I started screwing around with old film cameras in high school, this one should be pretty fun. I always enjoyed (and still do) creating captured scenes that have nothing or very little to do with reality as seen without a photographic tool...or a good helping of psilocybin.

That includes just about everything from a long exposure, with one extremely quick spot of time captured.....

Shot by DeutschBag

Shot by skiingislife

A deliberately manufactured scene (this one's right up your alley outabounds

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Even just a choice of subject matter, a very 'real' thing captured in an unusual way
Shot by Chainsaw Willie

I'm trying to be intentionally broad because these things work better with more submissions and wider interpretations. Run with it.

RULES:
1. Photos must be taken within the time period of the contest.
2. You may submit 3 photos during the competition.
3. The contest moderator will choose 5 photos to be voted on.
4. The winner will get a happy feeling in his/her pants. (That is a rule by the way, not an option.)
5. In the event of a tie, the contest moderator will have the deciding vote.
6. Winner will be the contest starter/moderator for the next comp.
7. The winner has 3 days to start a new contest or 2nd place becomes the new winner.

Past Themes

MPC #72 Speed
MPC #70 Old Technology
MPC #69 Plan B
MPC #68 Atmosphere POLL
MPC #67 Plants
MPC #66 Patterns
MPC #65 Weathered
MPC #64 WINNING
MPC #63 The End
MPC #62 Food
MPC #61 Seeing Double
MPC #60 Normal
MPC #59 Tranquility
MPC #58 Silhouette
MPC #57 Waiting
MPC #56 Night
MPC #55 Fire
MPC #54 Wheels
MPC #53 Small Sensors
MPC #52 Blur
MPC #51 Found Faces
MPC #50 Portraits
MPC #49 Panoramic
MPC #48 Light & Shadow
MPC #47 Timing
MPC #46 Coffee & Beer
MPC #45 Community
MPC #44 Potential
MPC #43 Solitude
MPC #42 Holidays
MPC #41 Ominous
MPC #40 Imbalance
MPC #39 Transition
MPC #38 Unsightly
MPC #37 Self Portrait
MPC #36 Music
MPC #35 Summer
MPC #34 Passion
MPC #33 Home
MPC #32 Electricity
MPC #31 Bridges
MPC #30 Old & New
MPC #29 BW
MPC #28 Winter
MPC #27 HDR
MPC #26 Shadows
MPC #25 Circles
MPC #24 Bars
MPC #23 People
MPC #22 Architecture
MPC #21 Wild Beasts
MPC #20 Water
MPC #19 Bulb
MPC #18 Celebration
MPC #17 Sunrise & Sunset
MPC #16 Out of Place
MPC #15 Altered
MPC #14 Angles
MPC #13 Pain & Suffering
MPC #12 Unusual Perspective
MPC #11 Depth
MPC #10 Contrast
MPC #9 Festive
MPC #8 Reflection
MPC #7 Leading Lines
MPC #6 Minimal
MPC #5 Abandoned
MPC #4 Perspective
MPC #3 Airborne
MPC #2 Straylight
MPC #1 Motion

**Chainsaw_Willie** · 09-11-2011, 12:19 PM

Cool subject and I'm honored you used one of my pics as an example. Will have to see what I can come up with for this.

**freak** · 09-12-2011, 12:19 PM

does messing with colors/white balance etc. count? or is it more about capturing things in a unreal way, not making them look unreal? i guess the latter, but thought id ask...

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**kidwoo** · 09-12-2011, 08:11 PM

Honestly, I thought about including that, but that was kind of already covered in one of the other MPCs, "altered". I kind of decided that doing that would open up a whole mess of shitty photos with some dumb stuff done to them. But hey, if you've got something that's compositionally enhanced, by all means hit it. I just wanted to avoid a slew of effects being the main point to a shot.

Mainly I just didn't want to have to look at a bunch of HDR shit

**Chainsaw_Willie** · 09-13-2011, 01:15 AM

**freak** · 09-13-2011, 01:15 PM

freak~[

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**skiingislife** · 09-15-2011, 09:15 PM

#1

saaka! · 09-16-2011, 08:19 PM

**Chainsaw_Willie** · 09-20-2011, 01:58 AM

**Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer** · 09-20-2011, 12:17 PM

#1

#2

**kidwoo** · 09-20-2011, 02:52 PM

Now we're talkin

**Todds** · 09-20-2011, 07:47 PM

Rainbows come from traffic lights

**Lonnie** · 09-20-2011, 08:49 PM

This is what happens when you turn a bunch of kids loose with glow sticks on a Saturday night.

Unfortunately (as I won't have time to get anything else done), it's ineligible by a matter of hours...

**The Suit** · 09-20-2011, 10:51 PM

Toy planes over Utah:

**Tuckerman** · 09-21-2011, 05:42 AM

These MPCs should run through the weekends IMO.
#1

**Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer** · 09-21-2011, 12:21 PM

Originally Posted by The Suit

Awesome!

**sftc** · 09-21-2011, 01:35 PM

Laetiporus sulphureus fungi with a millipede

**skiingislife** · 09-21-2011, 04:41 PM

^Cool fungus. I don't see the millipede.

The suit's second shot is rad.

**sftc** · 09-21-2011, 06:18 PM

It was a nighttime long exposure lit with a small flashlight. That fungi is also know as the "Chicken of the Forest" and the millipede is walking across the bottom of the 'mouth'. The fungi was big- probably 8" X 8" at least.

**Fuzz** · 09-22-2011, 08:12 PM

This was a tough one, and made even more so by some of the fantastic entries.

I went with a more dream-like interpretation for #1...

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**skifishbum** · 09-22-2011, 08:38 PM

**skiingislife** · 09-23-2011, 05:24 PM

#2

**geomorph** · 09-24-2011, 12:39 PM

There was a cyclocross race at the park across from my house today.
#1

#2

#3

**gpcharles** · 09-25-2011, 06:42 PM

Motion Blur.

and then not sure if it counts, but here's what I think are called "monster 3d" shots since the two 3d channels are shot from about 5 feet laterally separated, thus making the 3d effect that which a monster might see (a monster whose eyes are 5 feet apart). If you know how to make "Magic Eyes" work, this is the same thing. Transforming the viewer into a monster is about as unreal as it gets in photography

... if you don't know how to see these, try "staring through it," as if letting your gaze fall upon something a few yards behind/through your computer monitor, and try to make the two images become one. DO NOT cross your eyes though; doing so inverts the effect. your field of view should contain 3 copies of the scene. one in the middle that is the focus of your field of view, and two others that are hovering to the left and right...

finally, an ineligible one from last summer I think would have fit the category well:

**The Suit** · 09-25-2011, 07:38 PM

Originally Posted by gpetrics

and then not sure if it counts, but here's what I think are called "monster 3d" shots since the two 3d channels are shot from about 5 feet laterally separated, thus making the 3d effect that which a monster might see (a monster whose eyes are 5 feet apart). If you know how to make "Magic Eyes" work, this is the same thing. Transforming the viewer into a monster is about as unreal as it gets in photography

... if you don't know how to see these, try "staring through it," as if letting your gaze fall upon something a few yards behind/through your computer monitor, and try to make the two images become one. DO NOT cross your eyes though; doing so inverts the effect. your field of view should contain 3 copies of the scene. one in the middle that is the focus of your field of view, and two others that are hovering to the left and right...

Whoa! Monster 3d is very cool.