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Challenge: Drama (Basic Editing)
Collection: Portfolio
Camera: Canon PowerShot S3 IS
Lens: Canon 250D 58mm Close Up Lens
Location: Oakland, California, USA
Date: Aug 25, 2009
Aperture: 3.51
ISO: 400
Shutter: 1/10
Galleries: Humorous, Emotive
Date Uploaded: Aug 25, 2009

I had Isaac hold a flashlight pointed at the edge of the steel measuring cup we used, and on my signal pour the coins into my hand while I snapped the shutter with my other hand.

Used the close-up lens to enable zooming in for a close/tight shot while holding the camera out of the light.

-Handheld, Manual mode
-RGB Curve
-Crop from top
-Resize
-USM at 12%/48 dia/TH = 0
-USM at 88%/0.8 dia/TH = 5 (applied twice)
-SaveAs JPEG at quality 9/10 = 125KB

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Place: 97 out of 104
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Avg (commenters): 3.0000
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Views since voting: 916
Views during voting: 335
Votes: 199
Comments: 3
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09/06/2009 10:17:36 AM
Hi from the Critique Club,

You asked for your shot to have an in depth comment from a member of the Critique Club.

I can see what you where going for here. You read the description of the challenge and you used the light to create a scene.

I think what is needed here is possible a focus, some sharpening, some focus, a tripod, more lighting, a faster shutter speed.

It is a good idea that you had though, maybe glueing the coins to some string and making them appear to fall into your hand out of a cup might help with the focus issue.

Some light underneath the hand may have helped a little also with the focus. Laying your hand on a table would have steadied your hand and not given you hand shake. The top of your hand is slightly cut off as well with the cup(?) move back just a tad to incorporate the cup and fingers.

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 Comments Made During the Challenge
09/01/2009 08:40:36 PM
i not understand what this happening.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
08/30/2009 09:45:43 PM
DNMC - Not the least bit compelling. Please review challenge description.
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