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Challenge: Macro Without Bugs or Flowers II (Advanced Editing VII)
Collection: Signs
Camera: Canon EOS-350D Rebel XT
Lens: Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 USM Macro
Location: Tranquility, NJ
Date: Apr 20, 2008
Aperture: 4
ISO: 200
Shutter: 250
Galleries: Nature, Macro
Date Uploaded: Apr 20, 2008

 I put a piece of broken glass over a baby pinecone on top of a black car. converted from Raw. Basically, I upped the contrast and then I upped the cyan. no crop. resize.usm

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I was really disappointed with the results of this challenge. No comments during the challenge and a low, low score. I wish I had taken advantage of advanced editing to lighten up the bottom half of the photo and show off the reflection... but based on the reaction this got, I don't think it would have helped much. I just don't get it. I know this is too ambiguous to get a high score, but below 5? Or did people think this was a flower? It's so not a flower.

Statistics
Place: 220 out of 258
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Avg (commenters): 6.0000
Avg (participants): 4.6296
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Views since voting: 809
Views during voting: 250
Votes: 151
Comments: 4
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 04/29/2008 06:37:16 AM
I like the edge of glass across the top. Interesting idea. I agree with Karen, try it with some other objects too.
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 04/28/2008 09:35:13 PM
That glass imparts a nice emotive sense to the pinecone, a kind of wistful distance. You should try other objects under this glass.
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 04/28/2008 10:30:03 AM
Don, those white spots look like lights on a horizon. Kind of cool.
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 04/28/2008 12:21:37 AM
Oh how incredibly BEAUTIFUL! - edited to add and MISUNDERSTOOD!

Message edited by author 2008-04-28 00:22:05.
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