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'M' x 22 - "Orange"
'M' x 22 - "Orange"
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Challenge: Brown Ribbon Deja Vu (Advanced Editing VII)
Camera: Canon EOS-400D Rebel XTi
Lens: Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II
Location: my kitchen
Date: Feb 17, 2008
Aperture: f8
ISO: 100
Shutter: 6 seconds
Galleries: Still Life, Food and Drink
Date Uploaded: Feb 17, 2008

 My best attempt at improving the "Orange" Brown Ribbon from March, 2004, titled "MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM" (that's 22 M's).



The original was quite blurry, and despite being orange, did not meet the challenge, which specified that the fruit could not be the subject.

Shot in my kitchen, next to the window with the light coming through a white umbrella for diffusion. 50mm with 1.4x converter and 13mm extension tube.

Opened from RAW, resized, levels, nik color Efex Sunshine (quick) filter, levels, noise ninja, sharpen, resize canvas, resize

Score guess - between 5.5 and 5.7...I hope

Post Challenge - ouch. That was bad. At least I didn't get any 1's.

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 Comments Made During the Challenge
02/27/2008 05:03:57 PM
The white wedge between the slices is distracting. Perhaps a softer DOF or a different background color.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Canon EOS-50D
Canon EF 28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM
 02/27/2008 11:19:56 AM
the color seems flat and Im seeing some digital noice in the darker areas
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Nikon D70
Nikon AF Zoom-Nikkor 70-300mm f/4.0-5.6D ED
 02/22/2008 09:15:07 PM
At first I thought this was a lemon. Good macro though
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Canon EOS-50D
Canon EF 28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM
 02/22/2008 06:33:04 PM
i might have cloned out the black specs (pieces of seeds?) but overall nice image.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Canon EOS-7D
Canon EF 28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM
 02/22/2008 06:02:28 PM
something is wrong with your orange, not orange enough plus I would have removed the seeds because they distract the eye
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Canon EOS-40D
Tamron SP AF 28-75mm f/2.8 XR Di for Canon
 02/22/2008 04:57:16 PM
mmm, juicy. definite improvement over the original. I think that your dof is fairly shallow though - it would have been nice to have all of the photo in sharper detail. good composition
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Canon EOS-6D
Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 L Macro IS USM
 02/22/2008 02:20:10 PM
The black seed spots and flash spots detract from this, IMO. Good composition.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Nikon D700
Nikon AF-S Zoom-Nikkor 28-70mm f/2.8D IF-ED
 02/22/2008 10:31:45 AM
looks more like yellow to me
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Canon EOS-5D Mark IV
Canon EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6 L IS
 02/22/2008 05:35:39 AM
took me a while to figure out what M x 22 means. quite good shot, though the crop is very different from the original. DOF could be less shallow
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Canon EOS-400D Rebel XTi
Sigma 18-200mm f/3.5-6.3 DC OS for Canon
 02/22/2008 01:21:04 AM
Popular theme. There would have been 1 more if I'd left mine submitted. Good macro. Nice and sharp.
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