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New Born
Travis99


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Challenge: In the Beginning... (Basic Editing III)
Camera: Nikon D70
Location: Basment
Date: Mar 25, 2005
Aperture: f/16
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/60
Galleries: Landscape, Science and Technology
Date Uploaded: Mar 25, 2005

 I used a Black backdrop for the Background. Then I spray painted gold glitter on to it. I took an egg and positioned so it looked like the earth was hatched from it. Then I used a ball that was painted to look like the earth, I had to add the polar ice cap with some white paint. Then I suspended the ball from a piece of black thread atached to a piece of wood hanging above. Then I used my sb600 in a home made softbox, lighting it from slightly above and to the left.

I used the unsharpmask to bring out the stars in the background. Then some touching up with hue/sat, curves and color balance.

I fixed this image alot for the printable version. The basic editing limited me for this challenge.

Statistics
Place: 112 out of 300
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Avg (commenters): 6.3000
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Views during voting: 454
Votes: 301
Comments: 21
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
04/05/2005 11:28:11 PM
Nice shot, only thing that I don't like is the edges of the eggshells, otherwise good!
 04/05/2005 08:07:08 PM
great job lighting the shell and disguising the surface on which the eggs sit.
 04/04/2005 04:23:02 PM
Very clever and nice lighting!
 04/04/2005 11:44:20 AM
Nice idea! Note sure if it comes off though - egg is over sharpened to my eye. Globe isvery odd looking - siplified, but with something going on with the ice region. while I am sure it within the rules, the overall effect is one of a slightly cheap special effect (no offence!).
 04/04/2005 12:49:17 AM
Very creative ......I like it very much
 04/04/2005 12:15:03 AM
Very creative
 04/02/2005 12:05:27 AM
Cute. Great balance, nice use of lights and shadows. Well composed, drawing the viewer into a sense of mystery. Neat shot.
 04/01/2005 09:24:06 PM
another egg!! this is incredible. People ask for an egg challenge. Nice composition. It looks cool anyway.
 04/01/2005 08:03:43 PM
Well done
 04/01/2005 02:13:44 AM
Clever depiction. I was considering something similar, but without the egg... I like the colors and crispness of the image.
 03/31/2005 09:30:43 PM
Nice effect
 03/31/2005 09:34:03 AM
so it was the egg...
 03/30/2005 08:19:21 PM
fun idea but image needs work 5
 03/30/2005 07:18:47 PM
Awesome!
 03/30/2005 06:02:26 PM
its unfourtuante you can see the string
03/30/2005 05:55:27 PM
heh funny. :)
 03/30/2005 05:15:55 PM
Great idea, but it just looks a little too fake.... is that rubber ball? Maybe a tiny bit of blur would have cleaned up some edges.
 03/30/2005 02:35:59 PM
Interesting concept.
 03/30/2005 11:28:51 AM
The earth, complete with little mold-release line around the equator. Cheesy, but nicely wrought.
 03/30/2005 10:26:36 AM
I like this.. nice idea..done well.
 03/30/2005 03:12:22 AM
Just as an aside, how could the "newborn" earth have modern continental divisions? an amusing image, marred by an unnatural giglight on the left eggshell.


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