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Thumb Tack
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Challenge: Tacks! (Advanced Editing IV)
Collection: Portfolio
Camera: Olympus E-10
Location: Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
Date: Apr 15, 2005
Aperture: f/2.4
ISO: 80
Shutter: 1/40
Galleries: Humorous, Macro
Date Uploaded: Apr 15, 2005

 Many thanks to Adrienne for being a willing model

Cloned out bit of tack support that showed
Overall adjustments with curves
Selected background and adjusted with curves
Minor dodging and burning using overlay layer
Cropped, resized, flattened
Unsharp mask
Converted to 8-bit sRGB
Saved for web


Statistics
Place: 103 out of 137
Avg (all users): 4.9773
Avg (commenters): 5.8333
Avg (participants): 4.6941
Avg (non-participants): 5.1556
Views since voting: 1335
Views during voting: 445
Votes: 220
Comments: 8
Favorites: 0

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 Comments Made During the Challenge
04/22/2005 03:03:00 PM
Needs a bit better focus. Hope you didn't really hurt yourself for this!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 04/19/2005 01:05:19 AM
Dramatic Effect: Perfect
Composition: Perfect
Color/Tonal range: Perfect
Dof/Focus: Good
Creativity/Originality: Good
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 04/16/2005 04:10:52 PM
very blurry
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 04/16/2005 12:32:17 PM
ouch! There are no tacks in this image. ;) Ouch again! The colors and composition in the image are great. I would have liked the finger to be more in focus - but its very close. 8 for making it look like you stuck a tack through your nail. If you really did, I know a doctor that can help with that... :)
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 04/16/2005 09:55:47 AM
Ouch! Very evocative.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 04/16/2005 08:26:33 AM
ouch!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 04/16/2005 05:21:35 AM
Very strong image. I like the simle background, the lighting, the colors, and the fact that the strongest texture in the thumb (or finger) is in focus. I would be a little happier with the image if the focus on the tack were similarly tack sharp. I suppose some of the softness the tack appears to have may be from translucence or reflective surfaces, but its top and left edges do not look sharp. Probably easy to fix using sharpening software.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 04/16/2005 01:26:31 AM
This is a great image, although I view the challenge as Plural, more than one tack.
  Photographer found comment helpful.


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