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Challenge: Product Shot (Advanced Editing VII)
Collection: Portfolio
Camera: Canon EOS-40D
Lens: Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II
Location: Garage
Date: Sep 6, 2008
Aperture: f/16
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/125sec
Galleries: Advertisement
Date Uploaded: Sep 7, 2008

Happy Birthday to me. Got up this morning and the wife handed me this Novoflex tripod head. Woo hoo.

Black Acrylic Table/Black Velvet background.
2 Calumet 400's, one on left with shoot through umbrella and one on right no modifier.

Converted from RAW with Canon DPP.
In Corel PSP X2:
Adjust > Add/Remove Noise > Salt and Pepper filter...
Minor Spot editing
Adjust > Brightness and Contrast > Clarify
Curves adjustment layer
USM
Perfectum Smooting
USM
Resize


Statistics
Place: 11 out of 118
Avg (all users): 6.4870
Avg (commenters): 7.7692
Avg (participants): 6.1136
Avg (non-participants): 6.6364
Views since voting: 2288
Views during voting: 342
Votes: 154
Comments: 19
Favorites: 0


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09/15/2008 02:48:02 PM
Andy, I was hoping for the ribbon for you. Great picture! Down with soccer moms!!! I miss hang'n out.
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09/15/2008 07:02:49 AM
Great shot Andy. Just like the pros. How the heck do you get a woman to buy you stuff you can actually use?
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
09/14/2008 09:34:27 PM
Nice pic.
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09/14/2008 08:53:37 PM
Outstanding use of color accent.
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09/14/2008 01:29:23 AM
I really like your control of the highlights and contrast in the details; very defined and defect free. The shadow and composition is slightly weird to me. While the entire reflection of the object is cool, I feel it detracts a bit from the product. With advanced editing, it would be better IMO to have faster fade to black on the reflection (to tone it down a bit) and focus emphasis on the product. (I was imagining seeing this picture in a photo magazine as an add and thinking about it that way.) There are really strange artifacts in the reflection, what is that all about?
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09/12/2008 08:54:42 PM
Wow, that's great I think perfect for the challenge: 10
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09/12/2008 11:10:49 AM
Simple but classy.
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09/11/2008 06:05:01 PM
great lighting and clarity...
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09/11/2008 05:55:45 PM
It almost looks like a microscope or piece of medical equipment. A classy image, great lighting.
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09/10/2008 07:37:24 PM
ooh pretty! don't know what it does but it's a good shot. nicely lit, enough to show off product but no glare. 7
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09/09/2008 05:25:28 PM
Oooh, that's a nice product. Nicely shot.
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09/09/2008 02:24:25 PM
wow.. nice.. really nice. everything in this picture works for me.
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09/09/2008 10:11:25 AM
Great sharp and clear shot.
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09/09/2008 02:35:55 AM
great job lighting this.
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09/09/2008 01:47:08 AM
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09/08/2008 10:25:06 PM
i want one now! i guess your photo worked:)
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09/08/2008 09:13:08 PM
Wonderful product shot. Best one I have seen so far. Well executed and nice lighting.
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09/08/2008 06:59:29 PM
looks professional.
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09/08/2008 12:43:14 AM
Very nice lighting .. I see this in the top 10
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