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Peas smile for the camera!
Peas smile for the camera!
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Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: PEAS! (Advanced Editing IV*)
Camera: Canon PowerShot G3
Location: Albuquerque, NM
Date: Aug 14, 2006
Aperture: f/2.5
ISO: 50
Shutter: 1/15 sec
Galleries: Humorous, Food and Drink
Date Uploaded: Aug 14, 2006

These are PEAS! They are sitting on a piece of white posterboard in the living room. Overhead light more or less directly above.

Shot in RAW: Cranked the exposure way up and selected the background with the white balance dropper.

PS: (lots of PS on this one...)
Crop
very light NI
Selective Hue shift on all but 2 peas
lots of Blur and Dodge around the outside of the peas and in the shadows of the peas
Resize
Sharpen
Save for Web

Statistics
Place: 162 out of 209
Avg (all users): 4.7578
Avg (commenters): 4.2500
Avg (participants): 4.4203
Avg (non-participants): 4.9091
Views since voting: 709
Views during voting: 322
Votes: 223
Comments: 5
Favorites: 0


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08/28/2006 02:34:19 AM
Greetings from the Critique Club :O)

Ah, the fickle voter. How elusive and slippery your affections are.

I'll skip the technicals here, they're all very good, and I think you know that.

The colors: Okay, so they didn't like the colors. Peas should be green you see, and when people come across red and blue peas, they have to think about their vote. They don't want to think, they want to be amazed by your photograph and how amazing it was on the first second they saw it. Which brings us to...

The arrangment: I (and I admit, I can be blind sometimes, I can't see the illusions in those magic-eye things, but I digress) ahem... I didn't see the smiley face at first. I looked at the title, then I looked back up and saw the face. I donder if I'm alone in this experience. I think a closer arrangement of the peas, and more in the smile, could have alleviated any first glance confusion. First impressions are everything. Especially if someone only takes 2-3 seconds to vote.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
08/18/2006 03:57:38 PM
Why the different colors?
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08/16/2006 07:10:24 PM
the colors are pretty but for me it makes them look less like peas.
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08/15/2006 03:51:22 PM
Maybe I could learn to like peas if they looked like candy. It would be nice to have the peas a little sharper with less noise.
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08/15/2006 10:59:34 AM
is that supposed to be a face? hard to tell.
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