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Mandarin
Mandarin
dr rick


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Challenge: Macro Without Bugs or Flowers (Basic Editing I)
Camera: Canon EOS-300D Rebel
Location: Home
Date: Nov 9, 2004
Aperture: f/20
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/10
Galleries: Macro, Food and Drink
Date Uploaded: Nov 9, 2004

Used +4 and +2 close-up filters. The tiny aperture unfortunately shows off the sensor dust very well.

Statistics
Place: 73 out of 528
Avg (all users): 5.6084
Avg (commenters): 7.0000
Avg (participants): 5.5672
Avg (non-participants): 5.6718
Views since voting: 935
Views during voting: 436
Votes: 332
Comments: 10
Favorites: 0


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11/17/2004 09:35:55 AM
Lighting here was from behind. I adjusted the gamma using Levels to show off the subtle boundaries of the juice sacs, which were barely visible in the original.

I guess to get a top score I should have squeezed the fruit and photographed a drop of juice coming off it. :) But seriously, I can't complain about a top 75 finish in a contest with so many entries!

Thanks to all who took time to vote and especially those who commented.

Rick
 Comments Made During the Challenge
11/16/2004 03:52:01 PM
Strange lighting and a very good photo, well done!
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11/13/2004 06:07:19 PM
excellent image. only critique i have is the color. a touch of saturation might have made it look even more orange. 8
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11/12/2004 11:22:12 AM
A very good almost textbook example of macro photography. Great shadows, perfect focus, good color, Its just not exciting to me.
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11/11/2004 04:58:38 PM
Okay, now that is a wonderful photograph....I gave it a really high score. It is wonderful in its simplicity.
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11/11/2004 09:09:30 AM
Mandarin orange, in it̢۪s self I don̢۪t think would have been a good subject, BUT in this micro challenge I think it works. A good point of your picture is that it is in focus and you did a good job of backlighting. However it seems flat with vary little variance in color. Over all a good shoot!
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11/11/2004 04:15:15 AM
Good!
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11/10/2004 03:31:21 PM
I really like this picture :)
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11/10/2004 02:23:30 PM
Good lighting to get the background so uniform. Lighting from behind the mandarin would have made it a more attractive colour, bright. Alternatively you could change it in post processing.
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11/10/2004 08:41:21 AM
Great topic, and a revelation in texture . . .
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