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Learn to Sew
giantmike


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Challenge: New Year's Resolution IV (Advanced Editing VII)
Camera: Canon EOS-50D
Lens: Canon EF 100mm f/2.8L Macro IS USM
Location: Madison, WI
Date: Jan 15, 2012
Aperture: 2.8
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/15
Galleries: Still Life, Macro
Date Uploaded: Jan 15, 2012

Ok, so this really isn't my New Year's Resolution (I don't have one), but I have been wanting to do a shot of my wife's sewing machine for some time now. When this challenge came up, I was thinking of ideas for resolutions that weren't your standard "lose weight" or "eat healthier". I can imagine someone out there has sewing as a new year's resolution :)

Lit this with a flash and mini soft box on camera left, about half a meter from the machine. There was light coming from the nearby window, and with 1/15 second shutter it was allowed to act as a rim light.

Post Processing:
* Topaz AdJust - Here is where I created the Duo Tone look, and created a lot of the drama
* Topaz DeNoise
* Increase black point
* Increase brightness
* Increase contrast
* Increase definition
* Increase saturation and vibrancy
* S-curve
* Export as TIFF
* Resize
* Sharpen Edges
* Save as JPEG

Statistics
Place: 22 out of 59
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Avg (commenters): 7.5000
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Views since voting: 714
Views during voting: 248
Votes: 126
Comments: 3
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
01/18/2012 10:41:55 PM
Needle-sharp focus for such a shallow DOF, dare I guess 100mm @ 4.0? All my lenses longer than 50mm are slow as snails, so IDk what that would look like but one day I'd like to open my own 100mm 2.8 macro and find out!
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01/17/2012 10:27:26 PM
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01/17/2012 12:33:40 AM
Nice DOF here, and I like the PP.
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