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Challenge: Gold (Advanced Editing IV)
Camera: Canon EOS-300D Rebel
Lens: Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6
Location: Columbus
Date: Jul 18, 2006
Aperture: 5.0
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/60
Galleries: Advertisement, Food and Drink
Date Uploaded: Jul 18, 2006

No real story here except that I spent $22 for the bottle and I dont really drink. I would have centered up the bottle but the label on the back became too obtrusive in the shot and I really didnt feel like doing the postprocessing to clean it up - so I went with the slightly rotated perspective. I dont expect this to do gangbusters but I did think it was a pretty clean shot with an almost advertisement feel to it. And hey - it says gold 3 times on it and it has at leat a $1 worth of gold floating around. Sure meets the challenge wouldnt ya say?

Post process - crop, stauration, levels, burning, cloning, gaussian blur in areas, USM, border, resize for web.

Statistics
Place: 143 out of 296
Avg (all users): 5.3135
Avg (commenters): 6.4000
Avg (participants): 5.2523
Avg (non-participants): 5.4054
Views since voting: 3797
Views during voting: 280
Votes: 185
Comments: 10
Favorites: 0


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08/03/2006 09:06:21 AM
Trading post...
Met the challenge very well. And it would be an excellent product advertisement. Not that it did bad here, but it seems most voters don't like ad like photos. If you do it well the best your going to get is low 5's. (Don't get me wrong I'd be happy to get low 5's!). But maybe if you had opened the bottle and had a pretty glass full next to it, it would have done better.
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07/31/2006 07:54:15 PM
Trading Post comment

Yep, I'd have to say it met the challenge! I know I've bought things for a challenge, but never a bottle of liquor (I don't drink so it'd go to waste.) Pretty bottle, though! Well lit, would probably work well as a product ad, though the base is a bit heavy - not sure how you could remedy that except perhaps shoot from above instead of below. I'm not thrilled with the border - it's not too heavy for the picture, but it doesn't add anything for me.
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07/31/2006 06:24:24 PM
Fantastic shot. Love the color. Where's my shot glass.
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07/31/2006 02:46:11 AM
What I liked about this photo was the lighting and the perspective. The bottom up view made this look like a advertisement photo. It is clear and well lit. What I was not so wild about was the slim link to "Gold" - the word is there and a bit of the color, but not enough for me to really appreciate the link. That said, I scored it a 6 and would have scored it higher if I thought the color was better represented.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
07/30/2006 10:53:43 PM
Well done photo, should be thier add!
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07/26/2006 08:05:03 AM
lighting is OK and the idea is good, like the perspective
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07/26/2006 05:02:32 AM
Certainly an interesting photo. I would like to know who this was done. The clarity and crispness is very good and there only one little hotspot on the cap of the bottle thats distracting yet adds a certain commercial quality to this photo. Well done and good luck in this challenge. <7>
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07/25/2006 06:07:50 AM
i like the lighting.
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07/24/2006 03:19:59 PM
My dad brings this stuff out at the end of every family gathering. Thanks for the memory. :)
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07/24/2006 12:43:49 AM
Great Job!


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