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Tej


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Challenge: Negative Image (Basic Editing III)
Camera: Olympus C-70 / C-7000 Zoom
Location: Home Studio - Delhi, India
Date: Apr 24, 2006
Aperture: 2.8
ISO: 80
Shutter: 1/4
Galleries: Black and White, Floral
Date Uploaded: Apr 24, 2006

Post Processing –

1.Clicked the photo with black background. Wrapped some of the parts of stem with black cloth to give it “floating” feel (wish I could do cloning in basic-editing).
2.Crop
3.Inverted (using curves)
4.Converted to Grayscale
5.Adjusted Levels and Curves
6.Added Border
7.Saved for web

There are some “black” dots visible on photo which was not really prominent before inversion (when they were white). Wish I could use cloning to remove them. I will post the final version, after challenge, with all the “flaws” removed.

Statistics
Place: 44 out of 438
Avg (all users): 5.9481
Avg (commenters): 7.4545
Avg (participants): 5.7674
Avg (non-participants): 6.2289
Views since voting: 1057
Views during voting: 296
Votes: 212
Comments: 14
Favorites: 1 (view)


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AuthorThread
05/09/2006 03:27:29 PM
Greetings from the Critique Club...

Hi Tejinder :)

I agree that the black spots on the photo are annoying. When shooting for a basic editing challenge, you have to take those things into consideration. Regardless of the rules, the image you present has to be at its best. You can't expect the voters to be lenient on an image because the rules did not allow you to finish the image properly. It's unfortunate, but it's true.

This is one of the few high key images with a completely white background I have seen that I actually liked. The photo is a nice study of shape and contrast. Even though it is done in 'negative', I believe it's actually hard to tell that it's negative. I can look at this image and see it either way. I'm not familiar with the inversion process using curves, primarily because I never invert images.

The voters seem to like the image. 5.9 is a good score these days. The only critical comment you received follows along the same idea as in my last paragraph.

Nice work :)

John Setzler
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
05/02/2006 11:59:22 PM
Simple, strong, but elegant. Nice choice of subject!
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05/01/2006 09:32:38 AM
I love the stark simplicity, enhanced by the strong contrast.
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04/30/2006 10:49:59 PM
I love the simplicity of this. Great job!
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04/30/2006 08:32:54 PM
Stands out amongst alot of shots, great work-- 9
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04/30/2006 05:18:33 PM
Yeah, nice work.
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04/30/2006 02:39:04 PM
simple and powerful... nice work
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04/30/2006 02:12:57 PM
Nice background.
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04/30/2006 07:01:35 AM
This is so striking, brilliant use of negative image. composition, focus etc is flawless!10
04/30/2006 02:51:11 AM
'tis nice
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04/29/2006 12:55:26 PM
chromatic, simple elegant-9-
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04/27/2006 07:43:50 AM
this is fantastic...hope it does well for you
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04/26/2006 03:15:36 PM
Very delicate... and nice...
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04/26/2006 01:35:23 PM
This doesn't look like a negative. I think that's going to wind up hurting you in the voting. The image itself is fine.
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