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Challenge: Square II (Basic Editing)
Camera: Nikon D700
Lens: Nikon AF Micro-Nikkor 105mm f/2.8D
Location: Milton Keynes
Date: Aug 3, 2009
Aperture: f/3
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/80s
Galleries: Abstract, Food and Drink
Date Uploaded: Aug 3, 2009

 Trip to two supermarkets to find sugar cubes. An hour with a ruler and red food colouring. Another hour rearranging the lights to get even lighting and solid reflection. 40 shots at f20+ and one shot at f3. Upload using bridge. Arrrgh like the f3 shallow depth of field best, but only one shot to chose from!! Quick fiddle in CS4, after all it is basic editing. Frustrated that I could not remove the loose grains of sugar!

Upload, cross fingers!



Statistics
Place: 4 out of 67
Avg (all users): 6.7240
Avg (commenters): 8.0000
Avg (participants): 6.8077
Avg (non-participants): 6.7108
Views since voting: 2593
Views during voting: 337
Votes: 192
Comments: 20
Favorites: 5 (view)

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 08/12/2009 04:56:07 PM
Greetings from Andi via the Critique Club

First Impression: My first thought was that this was a map of Milton Keynes! Seriously this was one of my highest scoring images and the red cube (not square) bumped it to an 8 from my speed vote of 6.

Composition: Without my set square this is about as perfect as you can get and I'm pretty sure if I'd have thought of this myself the red cube would have been centered and so ruined the overall effect of the shot

Subject: ok, I guess a cube is made up of 6 squares so it meets the challenge many (many) times. For a while I thought you had the cubes sitting in liquid and it was being sucked up but that would be almost impossible, it was then I realised it was a reflection. Simple and beautiful yet complex at the same time.

Technical: Can't fault the technicals here as they are pretty much perfect. there is a lot of blue in the image and whilst I like it I wonder how a selective desaturation would have worked? B&W & Red?

Final thoughts: A great score for a great image with a good place to boot! Time well spent on the shopping and setting up Chris!
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 08/12/2009 01:11:59 PM
Sweet!

Edit: Pun was NOT intended!

Message edited by author 2009-08-12 13:12:27.
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 08/12/2009 03:14:08 AM
Great job! Congrats on 4th.
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 08/12/2009 02:48:26 AM
Congrats on the HM, excellent work!
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 08/12/2009 02:32:50 AM
congrats on the HM Chris !!! Fabulous shot.
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 08/12/2009 02:04:54 AM
Hey Chris,
Congrats.. and thanks for slowing down at the last lap.. :)
Managed to win by a 0.02 margin..

Cheers Mate..

Eric.
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 08/12/2009 01:20:20 AM
Chris, congrates on your top 4 finish.
Hope you have enjoyed the race...

Message edited by author 2009-08-12 01:20:53.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
08/11/2009 08:23:29 PM
Nice composition, meets challenge. Time to bump up a score for good title.
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 08/11/2009 02:56:31 AM
Nicely done - needs to be totally clean and aligned. Do you have a shot that is fully in focus?
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 08/10/2009 05:46:28 PM
Simple but effective. Clearly tied to the theme.
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 08/10/2009 05:27:14 AM
Great idea, the odd one out makes it all the more unique. Not sure if I like the border, still...wd!
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 08/08/2009 05:47:41 AM
best one so far 8
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 08/07/2009 09:52:14 PM
Great idea!!!! 10
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 08/07/2009 10:15:43 AM
Great work. Did this scene take long to set up?
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 08/05/2009 04:32:29 PM
nice as it is though I do think if the white squares had been cut into circles it would be even better (thats not criticism btw just an idea)

Hey just thought you could have then done exactly the same picture but with the white circles red and the single square white and called it PI or sumfin and entered into the circle ;-)

I've just set my windows background to this too btw
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 08/05/2009 03:56:33 PM
nice
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 08/05/2009 02:44:46 PM
Very creative! Black background is perfect. Makes the red really pop among the white.
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 08/05/2009 10:00:19 AM
Great shot...10
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 08/05/2009 02:54:04 AM
if ti was a square crop I'd say this could be IreneMs work. And how did you get the exponent into the title? good idea and composition.
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 08/05/2009 01:12:52 AM
Nice simplicity and elegance to this shot. I like the way the one stands out from the many.
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