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"Ye Olde Nutcracker"
"Ye Olde Nutcracker"
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Challenge: Low Tech (Advanced Editing II*)
Camera: Panasonic DMC-FZ10
Location: Living Room
Date: Nov 29, 2004
Aperture: F: 3.3
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1 Sec.
Galleries: Still Life, Food and Drink
Date Uploaded: Nov 29, 2004

Adjusted with curves, levels, burning, cloned out white spots on background, cropped, resized & save for web.

Statistics
Place: 39 out of 177
Avg (all users): 5.8192
Avg (commenters): 6.0909
Avg (participants): 5.7500
Avg (non-participants): 5.9178
Views since voting: 885
Views during voting: 250
Votes: 177
Comments: 11
Favorites: 0


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 Comments Made During the Challenge
12/06/2004 06:35:27 PM
nice. the nutcracker really stands out . Ony thing is you can still make out the background and I would have cut the right most side a bit
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12/06/2004 04:16:38 PM
That looks really handy =)
Now I'm craving some nuts.
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12/05/2004 07:39:15 PM
Very nice, soft-lighted still life of the nuts. The placement of the nuts in front of the cracker seems a bit contrived. Also, it doesn't make a lot of sense that the bucket is full of unshelled nuts. Isn't the purpose of the bucket to catch the crushed shells? Your positioning of the subject in the frame needs a little attention: if this were shot vertically, I think you could've gotten all of the nutcracker and the nuts in the shot without cutting the nuts off (ouch). Overall, though the problems with the image are fairly petty. 7.
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12/04/2004 04:25:13 AM
Why all the blank space on the right? You clustered all the nuts in the middle.
12/03/2004 10:59:04 PM
Cool instrument and I love the warm tones. You may not have noticed but there's some stray light on your background on the right edge and at the top right of the nut cracker. Looks like bottom left too but less so on my monitor. Compositionally, this misses for me; I think it might have worked better either in portrait format, or back a step, with the nuts in the foreground not "clipped", and perhaps on the left third line. Or maybe a more diagonal layout of the extra nuts--walking down the diagonal from one sweet spot to another.
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12/03/2004 02:13:54 PM
mmmmm...... nuts. nice lighting. I know that as a rule of thumb a photo usually looks better when the subject is off center, but in this case i think a centered subject may be best. but, then again, what do i know? just my opinion.
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12/03/2004 02:50:16 AM
I think the nuts on the table look too organised - perhaps it would look better if they were scattered about. Nice woody/nutty tones, but background shadow is uneven.

Message edited by author 2004-12-07 04:04:40.
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12/02/2004 02:30:29 AM
Stunning colors. Great idea. The the nuts moving off the botton of the frame and the angle of the picture make it seem as though the image is tipping forward. I would change one of those two ekements. Alone they work; in tandem, they unbalance this image.
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12/01/2004 02:20:53 PM
Damn! My Dad told me it was for my thumbs. Very nicely done. BOL
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11/30/2004 12:55:48 PM
This is nutz!
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11/30/2004 05:16:53 AM
Very original and great shot, well done!
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