...as soon as she bit the apple, she sank into unconsciousness...
by booboo_goon

Comment by booboo_goon:

Originally posted by spencerwood: The DOF looks a little faked, there seems to be a bit of a blur halo around the apple which isn't natural to me. The background looks nice but the apple itself is not in keeping with the rest of the image somehow. A bit too much post processing - its very high contrast, the specular highlights are burned out and the apple is very strongly colour saturated.

I REALLY had a hard time trying to figure out how you can "FAKE" dof?! hahahaha no idea, perhaps using a blur filter in photoshop? Well I can honestly say that's how it was shot, so it's not fake...

There is a bit of a halo on the apple and that was due to feathering during the selection of the apple in photohop, I added a bit of feathering because my selection wasnt exactly SPOT on and afterwards I thought it was ok as my main focus was the poisoned apple, it's meant to be magical so that's why I made it much more saturated than the rest of the image... it was to my personal taste but of course no to every1s like yourself =)

...as soon as she bit the apple, she sank into unconsciousness...
by booboo_goon

Comment by booboo_goon:

Originally posted by AP: very clever, superbly composed, and great use of DoF. I rather like the apple looking old, makes it seem like some time has elapsed since she took the bite. But that means shes been lying there dead for a while, maybe thats a little morbid... but i digress... really cool shot, but I think you may have turned off some voters by getting a little bit too grungy/grainy with your editing... its hard to make that work with the DPC crowd..

The grain comes from using a 1600 ISO it was a very dull day and had to shoot indoors!! Also used AE compensation of +1

I gathered some people would notice the apple being old, but amazingly enough at least from the 1s that bothered to leave a comment, most like yourself thought it was a nice touch! hehehehe Which I'm very glad... BUT DAMN the score went down last minute... ah well I am very happy with this finish tho! 2nd PB woooooooooooooooo

...OoOoops she did a booboo, she got tangled again...
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Comment by RamblinR:
The cord in this shot is well focused but you are too soft for my liking (but this may have been the look you were going for). I like your idea for this image and the facial expressions are great but don't like that you have chopped your arms off.

...OoOoops she did a booboo, she got tangled again...
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Comment by Boriega:
I like how you were able to get the face and cord in focus and the torso out of focus.

...as soon as she bit the apple, she sank into unconsciousness...
by booboo_goon

Comment by AP:
very clever, superbly composed, and great use of DoF. I rather like the apple looking old, makes it seem like some time has elapsed since she took the bite. But that means shes been lying there dead for a while, maybe thats a little morbid... but i digress... really cool shot, but I think you may have turned off some voters by getting a little bit too grungy/grainy with your editing... its hard to make that work with the DPC crowd..

...as soon as she bit the apple, she sank into unconsciousness...
by booboo_goon

Comment by Yo_Spiff:
Great colors on the apple, and the slightly dried out look of it makes you know she has been like this for a few hours when you found her. Nice touch.

...OoOoops she did a booboo, she got tangled again...
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Comment by mxbrown:
cute

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Comment by hanae:
HAHAHAHA! You got me!!
Poor my short legs LOL
Nice shot!!

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Comment by Jutilda:
This is wonderful. I love the kaleidoscope of colors and the whimsy of the "jump."

Pinhole style
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Comment by booboo_goon:

Originally posted by rhipster: Photoframe 3? Nicely done .

Hahahahahaha yes that's right