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Taste - tea or water?
Taste - tea or water?
letenele


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Challenge: Opposites (Basic Editing I)
Camera: Canon EOS-10D
Location: dinner table
Date: May 7, 2004
Aperture: 8
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/60
Date Uploaded: May 9, 2004

Shot during a reception for our college trustees. I can't stand the taste of bitter tea, preferring fresh water instead.

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05/18/2004 02:56:52 PM
Yuck - iced tea! I'm not sure I like having the bottom of the glasses cropped off, but a nice image otherwise.
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05/18/2004 12:36:00 AM
Great DOF
05/17/2004 04:44:03 PM
I like the simplicity of your composition. My only complaint is the black napkin (?) directly behind the glasses - otherwise I love the duplication of the other iced tea glasses in the BG. Your DOF is very nice - soft and still maintains shape.
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05/17/2004 09:24:25 AM
The black napkin in the back is a little distracting. I'm not sure about the opposites here... I like the DOF though.
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05/17/2004 01:46:56 AM
not sure that you can call tea and water opposite, since tea is mostly water.
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05/16/2004 07:50:40 AM
Not sure about opposites but is definitly making me thirsty.
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05/15/2004 08:40:31 PM
Would like to have seen the whole of the glasses, but good work anyway
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05/14/2004 04:07:56 PM
beautiful image!
05/13/2004 07:39:42 PM
I like your treatment of the background except whatever that black thing is.
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05/13/2004 02:58:15 PM
Tea is not the opposite of water, neither are their tastes. Your photo is more like a choice, not opposites. The photo is technicaly good, DOF is nice.
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05/13/2004 02:44:47 PM
I will take this as flavored and unflavored. The background is amazing. I would have preferred to see the full glasses in the foreground, but I really like this picture. A 9.
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05/13/2004 03:58:54 AM
I find this a little unbalanced - I'm not sure if it would help to show more of the glasses. They don't really seem like opposites to me.
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05/12/2004 08:33:01 PM
I know these are two different things, but are they truly opposites? I would have cropped the right a bit more and maybe lowered the shot to include more of the water glass.
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05/12/2004 04:27:08 PM
I like the balance (subject, light, tone) between foreground and background in this photo. The good quality of the bokeh makes the background objects recognizable. This gives a kind of calm to it all. Good colors. The icetea looks fresh and tasteful and the blue cast of the glass with the water and ice makes it look really cold.

I would like to see the base of the glasses though and a piece of the table cloth. It would give better perspective and depth. It would also make the napkin behind the glasses recognizable. Now it could be anything, like a jacket hanging on a chair. As soon as things like that are easy to identify it is less of a distraction and adds more to the composition.
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05/12/2004 10:38:25 AM
The impromptu snap-shot style is odd on this one. The black napkin distracts some, as does the hilite above the tea. I suppose they count as "opposites", although they're really pretty similar. :)
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