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Moon Crater
Moon Crater
marcusvdt


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Challenge: Centered Composition III (Basic Editing)
Camera: Panasonic DMC-FZ50
Location: Home
Date: Apr 8, 2008
Aperture: F3.6
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/200
Galleries: Nature
Date Uploaded: Apr 8, 2008

 Took the same coral of the last time, but now I tried a closer look resulting almost on an abstract photo.
I think the contrast, lighting and texture are much better than the last time and actually I tried to follow some of the critiques that I received on the last one.
The setup is simple, just put the coral on the window to get the light, adjusted the camera in the manual mode. Focus set to macro.
Editing steps include the conversion from RAW to jpg: Manual WB, Contrast, Sharpness, Color, Crop, etc.
and then the simple editing on PSP X1: Rotate, Levels, Curves, Clarify, Resize, USM.
Hope this gets better than my latest entries. I think it deserves more than 6 because it meets the challenge and it is well done. I thought the same about some of my latest entries and they scored very bad...
The only problem I see on it is with the very bright upper-right corner, and I could not remove it in basic editing, without removing also some of the details of the coral. So I choosed to keep it.

Statistics
Place: 363 out of 380
Avg (all users): 4.1383
Avg (commenters): 5.1667
Avg (participants): 3.9663
Avg (non-participants): 4.2929
Views since voting: 726
Views during voting: 265
Votes: 188
Comments: 6
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
Nikon D50
Sigma 17-35mm f/2.8-4.0 EX DG Aspherical HSM for Nikon
 04/15/2008 11:11:13 PM
Wonderful texture and color as well as sharpness. Very nice.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Nikon D300
Nikon AF Micro-Nikkor 200mm f/4
 04/14/2008 04:39:34 PM
Not sure what that is, but it is centered! :-)
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Canon EOS-5D Mark III
Canon EF 24-105mm f/4.0 L IS
 04/14/2008 01:42:28 AM
What is this??
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Canon EOS-7D Mark II
Canon EF 28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM
 04/10/2008 06:17:23 PM
Very abstract
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Canon EOS-5D
Canon EF 24-105mm f/4.0 L IS
 04/10/2008 01:44:55 PM
Very abstract and textural.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Canon EOS-60D
Sigma 70-200 /2.8 APO EX DG Macro HSM II
04/09/2008 10:05:51 AM
would be nice in a texture challenge doesnt quite make the cut here. 5
  Photographer found comment helpful.
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