DSS14 My Pun of an Entry

cmorganphotographycmorganphotography Registered Users Posts: 980 Major grins
edited December 8, 2008 in The Dgrin Challenges
When I read "still life" I automatically went to my crime scene project. I can't decide which one to enter. I would love any and all opinions.

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  • clemensphoto'sclemensphoto's Registered Users Posts: 647 Major grins
    edited December 7, 2008
    This is most diffantly an interesting choice for the DSS. You might want to improve on the blood though, it looks a little thin.clap.gif
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  • pyroPrints.compyroPrints.com Registered Users Posts: 1,383 Major grins
    edited December 7, 2008
    second one's better, very dark & gritty

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  • i_worship_the_Kingi_worship_the_King Registered Users Posts: 548 Major grins
    edited December 7, 2008
    the tape measure seems out of place...
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  • pyroPrints.compyroPrints.com Registered Users Posts: 1,383 Major grins
    edited December 7, 2008
    i_worship_the_King wrote:
    the tape measure seems out of place...
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  • cmorganphotographycmorganphotography Registered Users Posts: 980 Major grins
    edited December 8, 2008
    i_worship_the_King wrote:
    the tape measure seems out of place...

    In crime scene photos there has to be a scale to show the size of the body objects and everything at the scene. Crime scenes can't be saran wrapped and kept forever for the detectives to dissect and investigate so the photo has to serve as that everlasting captured moment. Does that help?
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  • cmorganphotographycmorganphotography Registered Users Posts: 980 Major grins
    edited December 8, 2008
    pyroPrints.com wrote:
    second one's better, very dark & gritty

    PS: palanchuk fan? =c)

    I don't know who that is but I wiki'd him. I really like to read up on crimes and investigations. There's a challenge in making crime photos, so I'm trying my hand at it.
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  • pyrypyry Registered Users Posts: 1,733 Major grins
    edited December 8, 2008
    Well that certainly is different and striking! The second shot is the better one of the two.

    The tape measure is wrong for the scale thing, I'd thought the police use larger (standard) rulers. I thought there had been a fairly serious argument over the placement of the bookcase! :D
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  • cmorganphotographycmorganphotography Registered Users Posts: 980 Major grins
    edited December 8, 2008
    pyry wrote:
    Well that certainly is different and striking! The second shot is the better one of the two.

    The tape measure is wrong for the scale thing, I'd thought the police use larger (standard) rulers. I thought there had been a fairly serious argument over the placement of the bookcase! :D

    DIdn't have a ruler. Just the tape. We had lot of trouble with the blood too. This is a nice jumping point though for a huge project I plan to start with a slew of crime scene photos.

    We had come up with a whooooooole story behind the photo. One of the photos she had a smile on her face that really told the personality of the model well, but I don't know about corpses smiling, didn't look right.
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  • LlywellynLlywellyn Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 3,186 Major grins
    edited December 8, 2008
    First off, I LOVE this idea. It's my kind of twisted. :D

    And I, too, puzzled over the tape measure thinking there had been an argument over hanging something. But I don't watch crime show TV, which may be why I did not pick up on that.

    #2 gets my vote.

    And for blood, I find corn syrup with red food coloring works very well. Add a couple drops of green to give it that slightly deeper red and more realistic tint (not too much to make it brown, though). This makes good, thick blood that runs and then sticks as you keep shooting. thumb.gif
  • richterslrichtersl Registered Users Posts: 3,322 Major grins
    edited December 8, 2008
    Llywellyn wrote:
    And for blood, I find corn syrup with red food coloring works very well. Add a couple drops of green to give it that slightly deeper red and more realistic tint (not too much to make it brown, though). This makes good, thick blood that runs and then sticks as you keep shooting. thumb.gif

    :uhoh ewwww......Laughing.gifOLaughing.gifOL lol3.gif

    #2 is the better of the two pics, IMO. :D

    Hmmm....I wonder if you added some chalk or a partially drawn chalk outline -- would that be more meaningful than the tape measure?
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  • KevXmanKevXman Registered Users Posts: 945 Major grins
    edited December 8, 2008
    Just a side note on the tape measure. When a police photographer does not have a 6" or 12" ruler handy they use a US dollar bill (6 inches) laid flat.
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  • TentacionTentacion Registered Users Posts: 940 Major grins
    edited December 8, 2008
    Pretty Funny, I was actually thinking of doing the "still life" as in a person or animal. I guess GMTA!!

    Ok, so I have a terrible mind, but I actually thought the "Lover's Quarrel" was about the "tape measure"....in an intimate and derrogatory manner towards a "Male's Pride"...sometimes men can be touchy when you talk about "Measurements" on certain parts of their anatomy...ha ha ha ha.mwink.gif

    I said, I had a terrible mind...rolleyes1.gif

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  • cmorganphotographycmorganphotography Registered Users Posts: 980 Major grins
    edited December 8, 2008
    Police don't use chalk lines anymore and I'm glad that there's been write ins for the tape measurer's meaning. It's perfectly great to hear so many different ideas.

    I knew there was a "stand-in" object like a dollar, I just didn't think of it.

    I won't be having any problems with the blood again, it was a starting off point and now I know what to and not to do.

    I like #2 as well. Thanks for the comments everyone!
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