A spiral shell out of our collection
using my new 580EXII flash what a gem that is
set the shell on a glass topped coffee table
then played around till i was happy with the flash settings etc
PP
using raw conversion
tweaked the exposure up a little
increased brightness and contrast
in CS3
noise reduction
unmask sharpened a little
had a few dust specks on the glass table and
shell and cloned them out
cropped
added thin white border then black
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Place: 54 out of 177 Avg (all users): 5.6791 Avg (commenters): 4.4286 Avg (participants): 5.1918 Avg (non-participants): 6.2623 Views since voting: 1380 Views during voting: 252 Votes: 134 Comments: 13 Favorites: 1 (view)
I was shocked to see how this image scored, until I realised what challenge you had entered it into :)
I imagine if you had entered it into a more relevant challenge or free study it would have had a 6+ score, it's a wonderful shot, interesting and perfectly lit, with the reflection topping it off just nicely.
I guess a 5.67 is not a bad score for a photo that isn't abstract in any way and doesn't really show much in the realm of macro photography either :) This photo is nicely done, but I think it could be stronger in quite a few ways... Personally I think this image is stronger if you rotate it 90° counterclockwise so the flow goes from top left to bottom right. Images like this are also difficult to critique. There isn't really anything technically wrong with this image, so everything I might offer is purely subjective.
This is a beautiful image and in another challenge I am sure your placing would have been much higher. I would also suggest that you offer this as a print.
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