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Holdin' It All Together
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Challenge: Office Art (Classic Editing)
Collection: Macro
Camera: Sony DSC-F707
Location: Back deck
Date: Jun 8, 2003
Aperture: 6.3
ISO: 100
Shutter: 10/6400
Galleries: Still Life, Macro
Date Uploaded: Jun 8, 2003

 I took this shot in very bright sunlight on my back deck. The ring is a reflection from my lens, I suppose. I used a piece of gray typing paper (left) and a sheet of white (right) for my background. I then arranged blue paperclips on together on the left, and colored ones on the right. Took the shot.

Post processing -
Increased contrast a touch. (This helped to define the white line between the sheets and made the blues a little more not so flat).
Increased saturation of all colors except blue and cyan, just a touch.
Totally decreased the saturation of blue and cyan, making the blue clips gray.
Cropped, resized, framed.

Statistics
Place: 28 out of 86
Avg (all users): 5.7963
Avg (commenters): 6.4444
Avg (participants): 5.5789
Avg (non-participants): 6.0392
Views since voting: 1046
Votes: 108
Comments: 10
Favorites: 0

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 06/16/2003 04:34:00 AM
I like the style of your border but I guess the black is a little overpowering. Also I think when you are trying to compose like this symmetry is very important. If you had organized the clips on the left a little better, it would have brought the mirror magic in the image.
Also I guess slightly reducing the amount of grey in the clips on the left would have balanced the frame better.
Over all a nice attempt!!
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
06/15/2003 12:43:12 PM
Nice piece of office art. Apart from the serrated edge effect on some of the paper clips in the top right hand corner this is an excellent photo - 9.
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 06/14/2003 06:55:01 AM
Interesting. how can half the picture be black and white and the rest be in colour! aaah! my brain is melting. Very cool!
 06/13/2003 06:01:57 PM
Is this the colour vs black and white war? I want to know how you got this effect. Kind of interesting 'growing from the corner' 3d thing with the clip going on there. Conceptually a little... I really need a word other than 'abstract' here for this sort of thing. "I don't get it." would be too strong, though.
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 06/12/2003 09:33:44 PM
Good sharp clear pic. I don't like the lines between the 2 groups of paperclips particularly. COlors are well portrayed in this pic.
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 06/11/2003 05:35:36 PM
Cool. How did you do that?
 06/11/2003 01:42:57 PM
How'd you do this? Great work.
 06/11/2003 01:19:29 AM
The age old ? is every b/w or different shades of light?
 06/09/2003 07:36:52 PM
Very sharp photo! Nice color. Image leaves with lots of questions - why the paper line down the middle (and the circle...could these be water marks)? Why colorful paperclips in one corner and bland ones in the other? This photo has a better "WOW" factor than the pics I gave a 7 to so, score upgrade to 8. Rob the Swash
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 06/09/2003 12:43:19 PM
You had a real unique idea here. I do think, however, the paperclips could have been place a little better. I don't really have any quick ideas to offer, but it just doesn't seem to appeal to me. Could have done without the diagonal line I think. Otherwise you focus is good.
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