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The Trendy and Chic... Engineering Major
The Trendy and Chic... Engineering Major
yeoua


Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: School Days (Basic Editing I)
Camera: Canon PowerShot G2
Location: My Dorm Room
Date: Oct 18, 2004
Aperture: 2.5
ISO: 50
Shutter: 1/4
Galleries: Portraiture, Studio
Date Uploaded: Oct 18, 2004

Taken in my dorm room using white poster board as the background. Tried on several pairs of jeans until I found a pair that worked well in this shoot, and posed my calculator (TI-89). Unfortunately I did not have a second person to take the picture so I needed to use a mirror to make sure I was standing in the right place, click the remote, and guess where I should be. Around 30 or so shots later, I had one that felt right.

In Photoshop, I used the following in about this order:

NeatImage
Crop
Lighten
Brightness/Contrast
Saturation
Sharpen
Resize
Save to jpg

Statistics
Place: 72 out of 195
Avg (all users): 5.1486
Avg (commenters): 5.7273
Avg (participants): 4.8791
Avg (non-participants): 5.2811
Views since voting: 845
Views during voting: 386
Votes: 276
Comments: 13
Favorites: 0


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10/26/2004 06:17:19 PM
Nice detail and sharpness.
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10/26/2004 09:43:57 AM
At last - one with imagination. I had a bellyful of pencils and apples. Great commercial potential - the only problem is the slight burn-out bottom right and it would be nice to not see the shadow of the left forearm.
When I was selecting pictures for publication I would have this on the possible/probable pile
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10/25/2004 10:34:55 PM
Engineering is neither trendy nor chic. I should know, I am an engineer. As for the photo, I think a sharper focus on the calculator would have been better.
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10/23/2004 04:43:14 AM
This is a well taken and composed photograph. I would have preferred not to have to have seen more of the colour on the right hand side, as I find the light in the bottom right hand corner distracting.

When I was a school we were not allowed to use calculators, so for me it was log tables, and tedious re-iterations
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10/22/2004 02:12:30 PM
Great idea! The light is the only issue to me. You may use two or more light sources to prevent the compromisse you made in right side of it.
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10/22/2004 12:08:59 AM
sorry don't like seeing people arses pop up in front of me :( - maybe the calculator alone would of proved a more interesting subject
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10/21/2004 01:18:48 PM
as an enginner myself i want to know when she graguates :) I like the shot and the concept. But just can't brink myself to want to hang it on my wall.
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10/21/2004 10:39:16 AM
if the background on the left side was completely white i consider to give higher score. And right bottom side over exposed..! But composition and the idea is fine.
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10/21/2004 08:26:33 AM
Ha! I just got done explaining how high key lighting didn't work for the last photo and here I see a nice example of where it does work! High key is great for giving a modern,high tech, trendy look and you've used it pretty appropriately here. It could be toned down a bit---I'd like to see a little more detail in the skin tone and the denim but this is a great effort.
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10/20/2004 07:15:21 PM
Trendy in what sense I wonder. Looks like a 80's video :)
It's different and you have centainly worked on the idea. I still don't quite get it though. I have been looking at it and asking myself what this image really represents to me. As I mentioned before, 80's video was the first thing that popped into my mind and I have failed to really gather anything else from it. Maybe I am a bit detached from these sorta of thing.
Anyway, I like it for reasons I can't explain.
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10/20/2004 09:53:23 AM
I like the bright high-key lighting for this shot and think it would be even better if it were more uniformly applied throughout. This is a really nice take on this challenge and a very well set up shot. Great job.
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10/20/2004 02:43:15 AM
Nice add pic
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10/20/2004 12:35:10 AM
A real engineer uses an HP! :-)
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