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Challenge: Hope II (Advanced Editing VII)
Collection: Portfolio
Camera: Canon PowerShot S3 IS
Location: Oakland, California, USA
Date: Mar 15, 2009
ISO: 200
Galleries: Emotive, Food and Drink
Date Uploaded: Mar 15, 2009

 Bought a nice textured champagne flute at the thrift store and a quart of buttermilk, which I figured would pour more slowly.

I left what would usually be a distracting plant in the background as a symbol of upward growth/life ... I figured the relative sizes and limited DOF would reduce its distractive aspects.

I like how the textured glass makes for "twists and turns" in the stream of milk -- the path towards filling the cup is not without obstacles.

-Tripod, timer, manual mode
-Custom WB (used the wall in the background)
-Noise-reduction with PictureCooler
-RGB Curve
-Blue/Yellow Curve
-Rotate 1.3°CW
-Crop
-RGB Curve through graduated mask to lighten lower part
-Resize
-USM at 12%/48 dia/TH = 0
-USM at 88%/1.3 dia/TH = 5
-SaveAs JPEG at quality 10/10 = 198KB

Resized original:

PS: I wanted to clone out the blurry remnants of plant stem parallel to the right edge of the glass (looks like a distracting shadow or blurred edge), but with a recent DQ I'm not taking any chances on a difference of opinion about what constitutes a "minor distraction" ... :-(

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 Comments Made During the Challenge
03/20/2009 02:47:22 PM
seems a touch noisy. Otherwise a good idea
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 03/19/2009 04:35:17 PM
I'm not sure what to get, but I can somehow see my daily life in this, so that saves a few points from me.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 03/19/2009 02:40:00 PM
I like the blured flower and how it contrast with the white.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 03/17/2009 04:15:46 PM
full....curious did you crop this alot? it seems to be pixeled when it should be smooth
  Photographer found comment helpful.


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