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Challenge: Unrelatedness (Advanced Editing IV)
Collection: Portfolio
Camera: Canon PowerShot S3 IS
Location: Oakland, California, USA
Date: Oct 1, 2006
Aperture: 3.5
ISO: 400
Shutter: 1/20
Galleries: Humorous
Date Uploaded: Oct 1, 2006

Scanned a Compact Flash card and printed it out to fit in a CD case.

-Cloned out some reflections on the right side of the toaster and the edge of a clip holding the handle.
-Masked and blurred BG
-RGB Curve
-Blue Curve
-Extra Curves on window reflection
-RGB curve through graduated mask to darken lower part
-Cropped a bit from bottom and sides
-Resized for DPC
-USM at 88%/0.8 dia/TH = 5
-SaveAs JPEG at quality 9/10 = 145kb

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Place: 108 out of 134
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Avg (commenters): 6.3333
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Views since voting: 882
Views during voting: 302
Votes: 172
Comments: 6
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10/08/2006 03:23:33 PM
Reads cards.
Toasts bagels.
Superb!
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10/06/2006 07:25:30 PM
I like the concept...would have liked it better without the light reflecting on the left.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
10/05/2006 12:25:01 PM
The reflection in the toaster (window) is distracting.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
10/02/2006 09:02:10 PM
Toasted Compact flash for more saturated colors.
Good concept. The chrome would look better w/o smudges
  Photographer found comment helpful.
10/02/2006 07:58:15 PM
Nice. Neat title and idea. Where did you get either 1) that giant card or.. 2) that tiny toaster? ;-)

Three ideas: 1) Open up the DOF so the handles, cord and 3 waves "logo" are all sharper. If that's our new reader, don't you want all of in focus? 2) Throw a little more soft light on the front of the toaster, it's a bit dark and detail is lost there. That would give you some more DOF. 3) Try a little Brasso on the new reader before the shot. It may be beyond polishing up, but if it did pick up some more shine, I don't think it would look bad. It would definitely give it a "newer" look to go with your title.
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10/02/2006 01:28:54 AM
I have that same card reader! Nice composition.
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