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Challenge: Broken (Advanced Editing II)
Collection: Miscellaneous
Camera: Canon PowerShot G6
Location: my backyard
Date: Dec 12, 2004
Aperture: F/2.8
ISO: 50
Shutter: 1/800
Galleries: Nature, Still Life
Date Uploaded: Dec 12, 2004

...took me only one broken egg, but almost half a day to get a photo I can live with. Shot in bright afternoon sun with ND filter on to get smaller DOF. Completely basic post-processing: brightness, contrast, selective color saturation, USM, Neat Image. A little oversaturated to my personal taste, but I think it will fare better this way. Will see...

Statistics
Place: 116 out of 177
Avg (all users): 5.1378
Avg (commenters): 5.2500
Avg (participants): 5.0619
Avg (non-participants): 5.2121
Views since voting: 984
Views during voting: 272
Votes: 196
Comments: 6
Favorites: 0


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01/14/2005 04:31:45 PM
keegbow,
thank you for your thoughtful review. much appreciated
12/26/2004 05:54:10 AM
Greetings from the Critique Club,

I like the idea behind the image and the lighting is very good it was the good afternoon light that gives the image character with the shadows coming across the eggs.

But it just needs a better composition to make the presentation more appealing. I suppose you could spend hours arranging things and get caught up too much without really stepping back and seeing some more basic aspects. To me the way the image is presented now it would look better if it was in landscape orientation but something I would also do would get the camera angle much lower to the ground to bring you into the subject.

You had a very good concept that just lacked a little extra planning before you shot to get you the score it deserved.

Best wishes and good luck in future challenges.

Tim Sturt

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 Comments Made During the Challenge
12/18/2004 09:45:39 PM
Velociraptor eggs! Spray pesticides everywhere before 'Jurassic Park' happens to you!
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12/15/2004 07:32:21 PM
I like the idea but I think the execution of it could have been better. 5
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12/15/2004 03:59:53 PM
Obviously meets the challenge, and is quite nicely done - I like the light and shade on the eggs themselves, but there seems a lack of colour in the grass. It lacks magic, if you follow me - whilst the light is nice, it isn't fascinating, and the scene itself looks set-up, rather than real: actually, you know, it cries out for the shaping and compositional help you'd get from a real nest - all those curves of materials ...
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12/14/2004 11:54:01 PM
A good idea, but a fairly average implementation.
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