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Challenge: Separation (Advanced Editing IV)
Collection: Portfolio
Camera: Olympus D-490Z
Location: Oakland, California, USA
Date: Feb 20, 2005
Aperture: 3.5
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/3 sec
Galleries: Black and White, Macro
Date Uploaded: Feb 20, 2005

 Sparkplug and steel ruler, incandescent light, whitish towel as backdrop. Macro mode, handheld.

The gap between electrodes on a sparkplug must be set with far greater precision (plus/minus 0.001 inch or so) than is possible with this Metric scale office ruler.

-Used the dodge tool to lighten up some of the shadows in the folds of the background.
-Made a rough selection of background, feathered 8 pixels, applied Gaussian Blur at about 12 pixel diameter. Used the blur tool to selectively blur the edge of the towel in the lower-left corner.
-Applied two RGB Curves for tone/contrast.
-Selected Green Channel and copied to new Grayscale file.
-Applied contrast-enhancing USM at 16%/48 dia/TH=0
-Applied USM at 88%/0.8 dia/TH=5
-Converted to Duptone mode using Black and Cyan with custom curves
-Converted to RGB
-Saved as JPEG=9/10

Statistics
Place: 156 out of 182
Avg (all users): 4.7589
Avg (commenters): 4.6364
Avg (participants): 4.7245
Avg (non-participants): 4.7857
Views since voting: 937
Views during voting: 349
Votes: 224
Comments: 11
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
02/25/2005 01:01:33 PM
I like the idea but I feel this is one of those shots that has greatest impact and effect with a spot on sharpness throughout the plus itself
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 02/22/2005 11:17:43 PM
I like the concept of this image and it is a good shot of the spark plug, but the composition could probably use just a touch more focus.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 02/22/2005 10:11:11 AM
Wished for better focus.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 02/21/2005 11:58:40 PM
Nah, that's about 0.030"
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 02/21/2005 10:25:27 PM
I don't get it... also, foreground and background are both a bit out of focus. You might have wanted to pick one to focus on.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 02/21/2005 10:53:48 AM
Very original. Love the composition and the color tone, but I think your gap is too small. You car may run ruff, Hehe
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 02/21/2005 10:07:44 AM
The focus seems a bit soft.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 02/21/2005 05:40:01 AM
nice idea and compsition it's just a bit too out of focus for me, would have loved the ruler to be realy sharpe and the spark plug as it is.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 02/21/2005 04:42:01 AM
the whole pict is slightly out of focus
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 02/21/2005 03:28:49 AM
Focus is a bit soft....even on the end of the tool if you look carefully.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 02/21/2005 12:55:17 AM
Two separated objects??????
  Photographer found comment helpful.


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