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Challenge: PEAS! (Advanced Editing IV*)
Camera: Canon EOS-350D Rebel XT
Lens: Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 II
Location: Kitchen
Date: Aug 10, 2006
Aperture: f/5.6
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/4 second
Galleries: Humorous, Food and Drink
Date Uploaded: Aug 10, 2006

Just a bit of fun with peas and corn

Editing Steps:
Rotate
Crop
Select peas and corn and make new layer
Adjust levels on background so all black
Curves on vegetables
Dodge/burn
Clone some peas/corn to make the face friendlier
Resize
Add Border
USM
Save for Web

Post Challenge:
It seems my resizing left this a bit pixelated and I missed some blue/white elements from the plate the peas were on when I changed the background to black. This means two things:
1. slow down and look at the image at each step (to be honest I didn't notice the pixelation)
2. buy a new monitor

Statistics
Place: 145 out of 209
Avg (all users): 5.0172
Avg (commenters): 6.2000
Avg (participants): 4.7792
Avg (non-participants): 5.1346
Views since voting: 1083
Views during voting: 332
Votes: 233
Comments: 8
Favorites: 1 (view)


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AuthorThread
08/28/2006 08:57:46 AM
Greetings from the Critique Club -

Well you easliy met the challenge on this shot for sure. Looking at your post challenge description it seems like you have some idea where you needed to go with this one. There is a resizing for web tutorial around this site somewhere if you need help in the proper and best way to resize for the challenges. This alone could make a huge difference ifd you are not using the save for web feature properly. That alone could take care of most of your pixelated and blur issues with this shot.

Some cloning could have cleaned up your black background a bit to make that nice and smooth. The spots are distracting. The colors are a bit flat here as well. A bit more saturation could have made this pop out more. With a simple idea like this you really need the technicals to be sharp to score well.

Overall an average shot that probably scored right around where it should have. Keep on submitting and your skills and scores will grow. (Love your cat shots). Good luck on future challenges.

Tim
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08/22/2006 05:19:05 PM
This is a nice fun shot and I like the placement of the face in the frame but there are definitely a few things you could improve on. The image is quite pixelated, my instinct is to put this down to a resizing problem, maybe you need to look at how your resizing your images? There are some blue and white marks on the B/G and at the edges of the peas...was the B/G originally a different colour? Dealing with these two issues would definitely get you a better score in my opinion :o)
  Photographer found comment helpful.
08/22/2006 02:55:06 AM
Archive Collection - Food Faces & Edible Effigy
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
08/19/2006 10:47:23 AM
Too pixelated
  Photographer found comment helpful.
08/15/2006 08:48:42 PM
very cute. i would have cloned some of the white spots on the black background.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
08/15/2006 08:33:58 PM
I like this! It states,"just what can you do with peas?" and "really, what the hay!"
  Photographer found comment helpful.
08/15/2006 06:06:12 PM
2nd time i saw this,
but this is better
8!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
08/15/2006 07:36:42 AM
Very cute, and the border matches well. IMO a bit flat, though. Maybe a touch of curves? 6
  Photographer found comment helpful.


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