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Summer Punnet - Slightly from above
Summer Punnet - Slightly from above
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Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: From Above II (Basic Editing)
Camera: Canon EOS-40D
Lens: Canon EF-S 17-85mm f/4-5.6 IS USM
Location: The Netherlands
Date: Jul 5, 2009
Aperture: f8.0
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/4s
Galleries: Still Life, Food and Drink
Date Uploaded: Jul 5, 2009

 It's summer and Wimbledon so I had to do strawberries irrespective of the challenge.

Simple set up close to a window with a tungsten lamp off to the right. Tried to make an interesting composition with a trianglular form.

PP was simple.
Lightroom only needed a slight adjustment in the colour temperature. The exposure was OK. Also increased the saturation just a tiny bit.
In PS I increased the contrats, resized and applied unsharp mask.

Statistics
Place: 131 out of 141
Avg (all users): 4.1818
Avg (commenters): 4.3333
Avg (participants): 4.2245
Avg (non-participants): 4.1638
Views since voting: 833
Views during voting: 261
Votes: 165
Comments: 4
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AuthorThread
 07/21/2009 03:40:13 PM
Greetings from Andi via the Critique Club.

First Impression: Well, I guess you already know my first thought? ok, it meets the challenge (just) but you were pushing it here. Two other immediate thoughts were the container just doesn't fit in and the background is well, boring.

Composition: Not too happy about the image being cut in half by the foreground/backgound split but do like the idea of the 'triangle' of strawberries.

Tecnical: The lighting and exposure on the strawberries and table cloth are very good and the focus is spot on for me.

Artistic: The layout of the strawberries is good for me however there is nothing else here to move this from a snapshot type shot.

Overall thoughts: A tecnically well taken shot but sadly let down by the plastic pot and background and the biggy is for me it doesn't do the challenge title much justice. that said I do think a 4.1 was a little harsh.
 Comments Made During the Challenge
07/13/2009 09:38:16 PM
Challenge Relevance:3 Impact/Emotion/Mood:4 Technicals:6 Processing:5.5 Creativity:3
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 07/09/2009 09:27:29 PM
Very slightly. But fine looking strawberries anyway.
 07/09/2009 06:02:23 PM
very slightly. otherwise super still life.
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