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Blironing
Blironing
Timosaby


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Challenge: Household Appliances (Basic Editing)
Camera: Canon EOS-400D Rebel XTi
Lens: Sigma 105mm f/2.8 EX DG Macro for Canon
Location: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Date: Aug 14, 2009
Aperture: F11
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/200
Galleries: Studio, Food and Drink
Date Uploaded: Aug 14, 2009

I had many ideas for this challenge but i finally settled on this. Had to do it twice too since the first time it wasn't very obvious that the blender was used for ironing, so someone suggested i use an actual shirt.

Expectation: 5.7
Hoping for: 6.4+

PP:
Raw conversion
Levels
Contrast
Curves
Shadows/Highlights
Saturation
Smart Sharpen
Crop
Resize for web
Eat fruits


Statistics
Place: 18 out of 71
Avg (all users): 5.9283
Avg (commenters): 7.2857
Avg (participants): 5.5625
Avg (non-participants): 5.9895
Views since voting: 1208
Views during voting: 423
Votes: 223
Comments: 17
Favorites: 1 (view)


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09/20/2009 08:25:15 PM
Wonderful shot Tammam, simiply love it,
Igave this an 8 in the voting, very well done my friend,
Btw, Eid Mubarak :)
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08/27/2009 06:49:37 PM
Greetings from Andi via the Critique Club

First Impression: Certainly grabs my attention, I'm a big fan of negative space even with the small dpc images. Crisp, light, bright and humorous, I like it!

Composition: I do like the dynamics of your composition and did I mention I love the negative space? Maybe if you had cropped out the bottom of the Blironing board it would have been more pleasing and removed most of the blue bottom left. I'm a fan of odd angles as well, it works well for me here.

Subject: Nice idea to juxtapose the 2 main subjects however an ironing board doesn't shout appliance to me. Plenty of humour here, did you think of getting somebody to flick the switch on the wall for your final shot and blend the fruit?

Technical: A couple of minor niggles, the blue remnants of your post processing to get the bg bright and white background bottom left might have stopped this scoring the 6+ it deserved and the focus/colour on the arms is a little off for my liking.

Final thoughts:Love the idea and the shot you submitted, imho it was a couple of minor issues away from a ribbon so well done!
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
08/25/2009 09:32:13 PM
funny ....nice props
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08/25/2009 07:01:02 PM
LOL..mix it up a little..nice lighting and comp..I'm not gonna ask how did you come up with that idea, because I've done and thought of weird things too...lol... :D 9...bumped to a 10
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08/24/2009 07:53:46 PM
Very creative :-)
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08/22/2009 09:13:03 PM
Creative concept, well executed.
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08/22/2009 10:43:41 AM
Perfect! :)
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08/21/2009 05:35:03 PM
Something original and different!!! Yay! Kinda kooky, but it deserves some attention. And it's not a stove coil. And it bright, sharp and clear!
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08/21/2009 04:11:18 PM
I like the right hand side with arms and the fruit. The left hand side is kind of weak with washed (pun unintended) colors. Perhaps a square crop of the left hand side would ahve more impact.
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08/21/2009 02:03:48 PM
weird. Too much white space
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08/20/2009 03:44:09 PM
I love such creative nonsense! Well done and thanks for making the voting on this challenge funny after all.
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08/20/2009 12:25:04 PM
amazing!
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08/19/2009 12:34:44 PM
Haha, cute!!
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08/19/2009 09:57:53 AM
Multi-tasking? lollllll
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08/19/2009 07:59:46 AM
HAHAHA
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08/19/2009 04:50:09 AM
Very sharp, nice idea, good angle.
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08/19/2009 03:23:19 AM
why tilt? the light "eats away" part of the board but leaves a blueish corner (bottom left), 5


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