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CarlvanHeerden


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Challenge: Money II (Basic Editing)
Camera: Canon EOS-40D
Lens: Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 USM Macro
Location: Kitchen
Date: Oct 28, 2008
Aperture: 20
ISO: 200
Shutter: 0.3
Date Uploaded: Oct 28, 2008

 Layout on kitchen table. Gold bars from modelling clay and gold spray. Coins sprayed gold. Editing = levels, cropping, white balance, spots removed.

Statistics
Place: 77 out of 119
Avg (all users): 4.9944
Avg (commenters): 4.2500
Avg (participants): 4.9268
Avg (non-participants): 5.0147
Views since voting: 615
Views during voting: 284
Votes: 177
Comments: 11
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 11/07/2008 02:04:31 AM
Originally posted by Jac:
Nice bullion. Good work on the modeling.
Poor choice of background colour though.
With that lens you could have achieved a better image i'm sure. Can't really tell where the focus point is. I would have chosen a bigger aperture and focused on the coins. This would have made the bullion blurry and given this shot an overall more interesting feel.


Thanks for the comments. The quality of the photo suffered when I converted in PS to a smaller size file. I was in a rush and did it on my laptop last minute before posting it. I noticed it as soon as I received the comment from smudgeSMJ. Others also commented on the same issue and I am very unhappy with myself.

Thanks for the comment on the composition and background. I agree in hindsight.
 11/06/2008 01:15:12 PM
Nice bullion. Good work on the modeling.
Poor choice of background colour though.
With that lens you could have achieved a better image i'm sure. Can't really tell where the focus point is. I would have chosen a bigger aperture and focused on the coins. This would have made the bullion blurry and given this shot an overall more interesting feel.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
11/04/2008 04:35:00 PM
it may not be, but to my eye there is some softness in the focus. Also the gold on gold doesn't drive the image either....maybe a black background??
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 11/03/2008 11:59:23 PM
appears Grainy and out of focus, also appears to be a low resolution image blown up to a larger size.
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 11/02/2008 01:42:53 AM
Where did you get that? Nice shot, little soft (maybe because of noise removal).
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 11/01/2008 10:12:50 AM
horizon tilt makes it look like gold going to slide off the screen! well lit, nice dof and focus.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 10/31/2008 09:41:40 PM
Meets Challenge:2
Technical:2
Interestingness:2
Creativity:
TOTAL: 6
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 10/30/2008 06:16:21 PM
more details in the coins would be nice
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 10/29/2008 02:17:32 PM
The quality of the image is very bad and the the idea and how the objects are places isn't so good
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 10/29/2008 12:01:16 PM
Is that real gold?!? Nice image
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 10/29/2008 10:00:55 AM
Nothing really feels like the focus of this shot to me. The pixels also appear really big as if it were blown up from a really small pic. I also think that a different color for the background would have made the gold pop more.
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