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Red Peppers
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Challenge: Red VI (Minimal Editing*)
Collection: Portfolio
Camera: Canon EOS-550D Rebel T2i
Lens: Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 IS
Date: Jun 30, 2017
Aperture: 5.6
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1
Date Uploaded: Jun 30, 2017

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Statistics
Place: 32 out of 42
Avg (all users): 5.0612
Avg (commenters): 6.2000
Avg (participants): 5.1600
Avg (non-participants): 4.9583
Views since voting: 224
Views during voting: 85
Votes: 49
Comments: 7
Favorites: 0


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07/14/2017 01:58:08 PM
Originally posted by Bear_Music:

Whoa! Here I am scrolling along voting bright, bright, BRIGHT red pictures, then WHOMP! It's the Cave where Red was born! In a lot of ways I like this a lot, but for me it's not as well-realized as it could have been. A little careful work in post in the darkest part of the peppers to bring them up half a zone or so would have provided a boost to the 3-dimensionality of the image. The empty space to the right isn't helping you at all, all the more so because the pepper/BG division is so danged vertical. It's such and abrupt stoppage. I'd love to see one more pepper low and in the back on the right, fading into the cave :-) Also it would be great if you could change the WB on the bottom-most reflection so it was a lot less blue... A 7 from me.


Thank you so much for this long and detailed comment :-), really appreciate it. I had not thought about another pepper in the BG, I tried a few different placements of the peppers, but liked this the best (of what I took). I HAD thought and even done a few versions where the peppers in the front especially are just a notch brighter, and I like them much better, but this was "minimal" editing .... I may be totally wrong, but I thought non of that was allowed in Minimal?

From the rules:
You may not...

make any other adjustments to your image than those listed above. This includes, but is not limited to, cropping, adjusting brightness, hue/saturation, levels, curves, etc. Except as provided above, your image as entered must be identical to the original image as it came
07/14/2017 12:25:23 PM
I like the gloom from which the peppers emerge. I disagree with Bear's critique: if you did what he says to do, I think it would lose that sense of emergence.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
07/13/2017 06:14:18 PM
Whoa! Here I am scrolling along voting bright, bright, BRIGHT red pictures, then WHOMP! It's the Cave where Red was born! In a lot of ways I like this a lot, but for me it's not as well-realized as it could have been. A little careful work in post in the darkest part of the peppers to bring them up half a zone or so would have provided a boost to the 3-dimensionality of the image. The empty space to the right isn't helping you at all, all the more so because the pepper/BG division is so danged vertical. It's such and abrupt stoppage. I'd love to see one more pepper low and in the back on the right, fading into the cave :-) Also it would be great if you could change the WB on the bottom-most reflection so it was a lot less blue... A 7 from me.
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07/13/2017 01:06:14 AM
Good arrangement and composure, but slightly dark on my monitor.
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07/12/2017 03:33:21 PM
Nice shot of peppers. Fits challenge well.
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07/11/2017 11:29:18 AM
Light and contrast could be better. A 6 from me
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07/07/2017 02:13:14 AM
I like this the lighting is great but it needs a little more oomph 6
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