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Challenge: Inanimate Macro (Advanced Editing VII*)
Camera: Sony Alpha a77
Location: Prosser, WA
Date: Nov 13, 2014
Aperture: 32.0
ISO: 1600
Shutter: 2
Date Uploaded: Nov 14, 2014

A screw and Leatherman a workbench using a Sony a77 with a Maxxum macro 50mm lens under daylight flourescent light.

Statistics
Place: 44 out of 105
Avg (all users): 5.6321
Avg (commenters): 6.0000
Avg (participants): 5.3019
Avg (non-participants): 5.9623
Views since voting: 195
Views during voting: 201
Votes: 106
Comments: 3
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09/06/2015 06:31:11 AM
*Hello from Sid and the Critique Club*

A good macro that meets the challenge well.

The original image is a good macro and most definitely inanimate, a great idea. However, the processing has let it down badly, it has left it looking unnatural and below par. There is a lot of noise which at ISO 1600 with a modern camera is surprising unless this is a compact camera, which having just googled it I see it isn't. The end result is a loss of detail where it matters all those edges and the striations of the metal should be pin sharp and they are not but in a noisy sort of way.

Your exposure is just a little too much, there are areas of the image where the exposure is blown, for example the edges of the handles at the lower half of the frame and the tips of the jaws and the screw itself, all important areas. Some loss of detail may also be explained with the very small aperture you have used. I know the DOF can be exceedingly shallow but assuming this is your smallest aperture I would always use a stop less ie., f24 as you will get loss of detail through diffraction with the smallest apertures of your lens.

I think it is for these reasons that this excellent idea did not fare better with the voters. Thanks for your submission and apologies for the delayed critique, as they say, 'better late than never', or at least I hope it is, Sid.

Please feel free to reciprocate on any of my images, I would welcome your feedback…
 Comments Made During the Challenge
11/25/2014 08:35:54 PM
Good concept and well arranged and composed but there's a lot of noise and lack of sharpness.
11/19/2014 07:04:53 PM
Good idea interesting subject for this challenge. It feels a tad overprocessed to me, there seems to be a lot of noise overall. Still a 7 from me for originality


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