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Challenge: Apple II (Basic Editing)
Collection: Good Stuff
Camera: Canon EOS-350D Rebel XT
Lens: Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II
Location: Tranquility, NJ
Date: Feb 10, 2009
Aperture: 4
ISO: 200
Shutter: 60
Galleries: Portraiture, Food and Drink
Date Uploaded: Feb 10, 2009

 I carved a head out of an apple and posed it in a baking tray. I set the tray outside in late afternoon cloudy sunlight. I thought I wanted dramatic single source lighting, but this works for me. I put curves on it to up the contrast and lighten it. I put a violet photo filter to make it less yellow, then I gave up and just decreased the yellow in hue/saturation. then I resized and USM.

Statistics
Place: 51 out of 186
Avg (all users): 5.5376
Avg (commenters): 7.7857
Avg (participants): 5.1733
Avg (non-participants): 5.6716
Views since voting: 1330
Views during voting: 428
Votes: 279
Comments: 32
Favorites: 4 (view)

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 01/20/2010 01:40:45 AM
Love this one too. I never thought of leaving the apple intact like you do, very nice touch. Did you keep this one? :)
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 03/05/2009 02:33:02 AM
Gravitas, really. Whereby the wit is sublimely balanced.
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 03/01/2009 01:19:40 PM
Really cool. I didn't know you are a sculptor as well as all your other talents. I really like the processing on this. (But I don't think I want any cookies baked in that pan.) ;}
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 02/23/2009 10:37:24 PM
Wow, not your usual apple shot, that's for sure - great work, brilliant, really. How you placed in the frame too makes it visually arresting. Really, very impressive - I wish I could think to do things like that.
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 02/18/2009 07:32:50 PM
Melethia I worked long and hard on that pan - and I'd bet you are underestimating your own artistic talents again ;-) Maybe we need a decrepit cookware side-challenge! p.s. apple head is safe and shrinking away. Bear I think you will get extra points for WS. CC you hit it on the head - Looks like nosferatu to me tu! For anyone who might doubt it still, Posthumous is indeed an amazing artist.
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 02/18/2009 07:25:00 PM
PostLuminous Award WINNER!
Luminous, creative, original, fascinating.....
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 02/18/2009 04:27:12 PM
Helluva Image dude.

"An apple serves as well as any skull
to be the book in which to read a round,
and is as excellent, in that it is composed
of what, like skulls, comes rotting back to ground.

But it excels in this, that as the fruit
of love, it is a book too mad to read
before one merely reads to pass the time..."

— Wallace Stevens

From memory, so I may not have it exactly right)

R.

Message edited by author 2009-02-18 16:27:59.
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 02/18/2009 02:17:45 PM
Wow. That takes serious talent! The carving part. Not the cookie sheet outside part. THAT part I've done before but without the carved apple. Really loses something in translation at that point. But did you keep the apple and let it dry and get withered and do another shot of the visage?
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 02/18/2009 11:10:38 AM
I think we should give you your own posthumous award for this one!
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 02/18/2009 10:19:12 AM
I did not vote in this challenge, if I had this would have gotten high marks from me just for the fact that it is carved I have no talent like this.
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 02/18/2009 10:02:03 AM
Very creative apple shot.
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 02/18/2009 08:11:26 AM
That's very cool there Donald. Such a talented individual you are.
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 02/18/2009 01:46:28 AM
Archive Collection - Food Faces & Edible Effigy
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 02/18/2009 12:45:03 AM
Awesome shot! One of my favorites of the challenge.
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 02/18/2009 12:35:28 AM
wow, this is freaky and cool at the same time. looks almost like nosferatu lol. Very interesting carving!
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 02/18/2009 12:25:13 AM
Dude, if I gave out posthumous awards, this would have gotten my top honor.

My only 10 of the challenge.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
02/17/2009 05:28:18 PM
I really like this image. very creative. great lighting and textures.
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 02/17/2009 04:15:46 PM
Love this shot! There's so much to see here. It's not just your normal apple in the normal setting. I like this picture not only of the carving, but the depth it gives and the textures you chose for the background. The choice of colors really add to the dark feel I get from this (love dark moody stuff). Well done! 9 simply for orginality, focus and how it grabbed me.
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 02/17/2009 02:42:00 PM
that apple looks awesome... and so does the background. the textures make it more interesting. good job!
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 02/16/2009 11:06:50 PM
Sorta freaky, but like the fact that it's a little different. Subtle. like the browning of the apple and background/surface.
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 02/15/2009 12:16:39 AM
Amazing visual and conceptual complexity. Love the choice of surface and just the right degree of oxidation of the apple sculpture. One of the most artisticlly impressive images in this challenge. I'm voting ten. Unlikely to score high in general voting (I'd like to be wrong about that), but fine candidate for a Posthumous award and worthy of recognition and discussion. Might have cropped to not have the diagonal edge in the background, but I'm not reducing score. Thank you for posting it.
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 02/14/2009 03:27:07 PM
Very interesting.
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 02/14/2009 07:35:52 AM
Very nice! I was actually considering carving an Apple IIe out of an actual apple, but then realized what kind of work that would entail, and thought better of it. I really love the color contrast you have going on here, with the organic colorization in the apple (flesh and blood), with the almost industrial feel of the surface/background. Fantastic.
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 02/13/2009 06:33:05 PM
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 02/12/2009 10:57:54 AM
I think side lighting might have brought out the face a bit better. The background would have worked better with a smoother subject. As it is, I think the two textures compete for attention.
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 02/12/2009 09:15:32 AM
Normally the browning of the apple would take away from the shot, but I think it adds to it with the background you have.
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 02/12/2009 04:41:43 AM
excellent idea. composition and lighting could be enhanced.
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 02/11/2009 09:07:46 PM
If you carved this face (I assume it is Newton) - awesome job!! Very clever idea.
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 02/11/2009 04:41:42 PM
Just plain Awesome
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 02/11/2009 10:56:55 AM
very strong photo
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 02/11/2009 08:51:44 AM
Wow. Cool!
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 02/11/2009 03:22:39 AM
Very artistic, nice job!
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