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PaulE


Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Shapes III (Basic Editing)
Camera: Canon EOS-350D Rebel XT
Lens: Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 USM Macro
Location: Home, Singapore
Date: May 22, 2007
Aperture: f/8
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/25
Galleries: Macro
Date Uploaded: May 22, 2007

 Lit from behind with a neon table lamp, and from the front right with a flash into an umbrella. Was surprised to see the shadow in front, but guess the lamp was on through the whole exposure.
Frustrated that I couldn't lighten the top-left of the image, and couldn't remove the texture of the paper.
Post-processing: contrast mask, curves, resize.
Hoping for a high 5.

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Place: 226 out of 343
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Votes: 196
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AuthorThread
 05/30/2007 12:54:35 PM
Hi paule,
This image does'nt really work for me. I don't care for the compostion here one line dead center leaveing to much dead space to the left and right. Also as you noted yourself the contrasting shades upper left, lower right are killers. The overall texture is also bothersome. Also your first shell (bottom 1/3) the focus seems a bit soft.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
05/24/2007 05:30:07 PM
A tighter crop (2 shells, no more than 3) would make this shot better.
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