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Challenge: Pattern (Basic Editing III)
Camera: Nikon D2X
Lens: Sigma 50mm f/2.8 EX Macro for Nikon
Location: Wales, UK
Date: Dec 23, 2005
Aperture: f16
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/125
Galleries: Abstract, Macro
Date Uploaded: Dec 25, 2005

Macro shot of a divided red cabbage. Levels adjusted, saturation adjusted, sharpened.

Statistics
Place: 67 out of 240
Avg (all users): 5.7180
Avg (commenters): 6.6333
Avg (participants): 5.6273
Avg (non-participants): 5.7692
Views since voting: 1471
Views during voting: 534
Votes: 305
Comments: 37
Favorites: 2 (view)


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02/04/2006 12:31:37 AM
This is very well done. To me it's like a painting of a woman in a frilly dress, posing, with the left major area being her arm. Very clever.
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01/07/2006 04:17:53 PM
::: Critique Club :::
Welcome to DPC Paul and your first Challenge. Now this is one of the more interesting images I've had for critique

First Impression - the most important one:
"Wow, what is that?" It has a slimy octopuss look at one point and then a psychedelic cathederal. Great fun image.

Composition:
The image has got a creepy, slightly sinister feel about it. It really can't conform to any of the composition rules, it is its own rule. That's what is attractive about abstracts. They challenge convention and push the boundaries.

One of the interesting visual tricks I find with this is that you'd swear you are looking at a 3D tunnel into that cabbage. Even though I keep telling myself its flat, the patterns in there just makes it look like a long deep tunnel - very very cool.

Subject:
What can you say about half a cabbage! :) This is a great subject. Quirky is good and as we can see from the comments, it tickles peoples imaginations - as I'm sure you had every intention of doing. Well thought out subject, it takes a good experienced eye to see these everyday things as photographic subjects.

Technical (Colour, focus, and light):
I wasn't sure if the commenters were right about it being slightly OOF so I downloaded it and found that I could sharpen it. I have a feeling that the original is as crisp as the cabbage.

In case you've not picked up what happens with sharpness for the DPC submission size images. A perfectly sharp full sized image that is reduced to 640x will always need sharpening after reduction. In this case, it looks as if you might have sharpened it beforehand but not after?

The lighting and colour of the image are realy good. There's that slight glistening of moisture which gives it life, perhaps that of an alien lifeform :)

How hard did you push the post-processing? When I did the minor sharpen, there was quite a bit of noise appeared. It's difficult to know if that is the cellular structure of the cabbage or the levels being pushed hard.

To grow its vote?:
There are many subjects and treatments that are fine photographs but are never going to get a huge popular vote. Nor should they, because they would have to be compromised to do so. A 5.7 score is an above-average one, I can only see sharpness as getting you more and only then if it didn't aggraqvate that grainyness

Summary:
Great pic, I loved it. Going out on a limb and pushing boundaries is what doing great art is all about. Well done, we look forward to more from you in DPC.

Brett
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
01/03/2006 11:43:49 PM
Red Cabbage!
01/03/2006 01:27:02 PM
like it! red cabbage never looked so interesting...
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01/03/2006 12:38:48 PM
Red Cabbage.
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01/03/2006 11:31:32 AM
I like the idea, but it seems that the photo is not sharp.
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01/03/2006 09:34:26 AM
lettuce right?, 7 for using creativity and something around the house...my improvement would be the water is reflecting and distracts slightly, but other then that a cool photo
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01/03/2006 02:20:54 AM
Sharp eyes and a lot of imagination. I love it!
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01/02/2006 08:24:51 PM
Very abstract ... I love it!
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01/02/2006 03:03:50 PM
Disgusting - what is it? Good photo though
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01/02/2006 10:56:14 AM
red cabbage baby....nice composition...

You should keep buying these and until you get a cut that looks like a woman or something than photograph it and make it a print (it has that Van Gogh feel to it) (8)
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01/01/2006 02:23:22 PM
Something that we call "Rode Kool". When cooked right it tastes great.

Imagination wise I see everything from an octopos to a slice of brain. :)
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01/01/2006 11:36:03 AM
I see dead people.
01/01/2006 03:04:38 AM
Cabbage.
01/01/2006 01:29:47 AM
Interesting abstract feel to this shot. Looks like purple cabbage to me. I like this composition too.
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12/31/2005 12:23:46 PM
mmmm purple cabbage. i love the way the colors play here.
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12/31/2005 10:13:16 AM
Good idea and nice composition
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12/31/2005 09:17:47 AM
I xsee cabbage 6
12/31/2005 02:31:12 AM
Cabbage????? Neat pic
12/30/2005 09:34:52 PM
I see patterns...................
12/30/2005 08:00:49 AM
very good colour...wish it was sharper
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12/30/2005 05:37:28 AM
I see purple cabbage. :-) It did take me a moment, though. Pretty.
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12/30/2005 12:08:41 AM
It's a Jellycabbagefish!! i hear they are rare!!! that's wicked looking!
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12/30/2005 12:06:02 AM
Trippy pic mate love the patterns.
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12/29/2005 11:02:36 PM
Red cabbage??
12/29/2005 10:22:26 PM
cabbage detail
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12/29/2005 10:21:33 PM
Red cabbage . . . Beautiful !
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12/29/2005 05:19:33 PM
Head of a Martian?!!!
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12/29/2005 04:48:59 PM
Nice idea! Clean cut. Good job!
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12/28/2005 11:32:02 PM
I'm guessing red cabbage - very nice interpretation.
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12/28/2005 11:27:03 PM
Very cool, just had some of this in my salad tonight. :-) The focus seems a little off, could have been crisper (not the cabbage, the focus!). I wonder what this would have looked like with some light shining through the cabbage? Nice picture - great idea!
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12/28/2005 08:33:46 PM
beautiful could be a bit brighter but great!
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12/28/2005 08:19:03 PM
purple cabbage upside down
12/28/2005 07:52:14 PM
makes me hungry
12/28/2005 12:26:13 PM
I really like this sort of picture. I find other people aren't usually as transfixed as I am -- I hope this does well for you. I find it fascinating, although the focus/lighting/something is a little bit iffy in the main, squiggly portion of the photo. Good luck. 6 from me.
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12/28/2005 12:07:48 PM
CABBAGE!!!
12/28/2005 09:14:44 AM
Red Cabbage? Great colour and interesting composition.
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