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Challenge: Coffee Shop (Basic Editing III)
Camera: Canon EOS-20D
Lens: Canon EF 50mm f/1.4 USM
Location: Home
Date: Oct 4, 2005
Aperture: 10
ISO: 400
Shutter: 0.6 sec
Galleries: Still Life, Black and White
Date Uploaded: Oct 4, 2005

 The burlap bag is a coffee bean bag from Brazil. The mug has some burning matches inside, which gave it luminance. I fired my 580EX flash manually at 1/128 power during the exposure (from the right side of the mug). I shot in raw, converted to TIF, then converted to BW using Calculations in Photoshop! A quick levels adjustment, then Noise Ninja, then sharpening, and that's it. I expect about a 5.6 maybe...

Statistics
Place: 20 out of 154
Avg (all users): 5.8933
Avg (commenters): 7.4000
Avg (participants): 5.5873
Avg (non-participants): 5.9747
Views since voting: 970
Views during voting: 380
Votes: 300
Comments: 12
Favorites: 0

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 10/12/2005 08:11:06 AM
Hi JD,

I hope you won't get me wrong with this comment, but I saw your color version on PBase and never understood why you summitted a BW .... The color one is just STUNNING !! 20th position is very good, but I think you would have finished higher with the color one. Cheers
 Comments Made During the Challenge
10/09/2005 04:50:49 AM
Creative lighting. Nice detail.
 10/07/2005 11:45:29 AM
Nice lighting
 10/07/2005 04:31:50 AM
i like the way the light appears to be coming out of the cup .
 10/06/2005 08:40:35 PM
Of the bean pics, I think I like this the best. The lighting isn't perfect (among the beans), but the contrast in texture between the beans, cup, and bag is captured very well. 9
 10/06/2005 05:51:09 AM
Nice contrast.
 10/06/2005 01:25:12 AM
nice 10
 10/05/2005 11:30:41 PM
love this composition! it appears that the contrast is turning your beans into something unidentifyable, and the inside of the cup ends up looking overly bright. which is a shame, because the image could really pop imo...
 10/05/2005 10:44:41 PM
Interesting lighting in the cup. You know, the more I look at this the more I like it, you've really used your imagination on this one, BRAVO! I'm giving it a 10.
 10/05/2005 10:24:32 PM
you should sell this pic to starbuks... I like it very much .....may be the light from the cup is a litlle artificial
 10/05/2005 09:30:31 PM
IMO the beans are too dark.
 10/05/2005 02:32:23 PM
Good for you. Muy guapo. Muy bien. Sorry, I don't speak Spanish.


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