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Dreaming of Being "Tacks" Free
Dreaming of Being "Tacks" Free
karmat


Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Tacks! (Advanced Editing IV)
Collection: Macro
Camera: Sony DSC-F707
Location: Canton, NC
Date: Apr 15, 2005
Aperture: na
ISO: na
Shutter: na
Galleries: Macro, Action
Date Uploaded: Apr 15, 2005

Big red chewing gum
a tack
stuck on an upside down white styrofoam plate

Post Processing
Selected teh tack, inverted, used curves to even, smooth, and brighten the background.
Use a bit of clone to get rid of a bright spot (one of these days I will use something besides a cheap flashlight to light these things!)
cropped, rotated, flipped, mirrored
saturated the colors
softened the gum base
sharpened the tack (hahahaha)
resized
submitted

Statistics
Place: 28 out of 137
Avg (all users): 5.8991
Avg (commenters): 7.0000
Avg (participants): 5.6429
Avg (non-participants): 6.0597
Views since voting: 944
Views during voting: 411
Votes: 218
Comments: 8
Favorites: 0


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 Comments Made During the Challenge
04/22/2005 08:00:44 PM
Very interesting effect, but, it needs to be a little sharper.
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04/20/2005 11:33:33 AM
I am curious to know how you did this!
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04/16/2005 01:29:54 PM
Great stop action shot. Really neat to look at! Congrats!
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04/16/2005 11:54:54 AM
There are no tacks in this image. ;) That blob of gum is gross. I hate scraping it off my shoe. Couldn't imagine getting it stuck on my head. The detail in the stretched part of the gum is excellent. I think the DOF could have been a little larger to get everything more in focus. Composition works well. 7 from me. Good luck!
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04/16/2005 09:53:21 AM
lol, is that bubble gum? Nice creative shot.
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04/16/2005 05:08:00 AM
What an extraordinary idea! I like it. Very well executed.
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04/16/2005 01:29:03 AM
This is a great original image, although I view the challenge as Plural, more than one tack.
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04/16/2005 12:39:12 AM
Interesting.....what is that??
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