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Remember The Slide Rule?
Remember The Slide Rule?
Sammie


Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Low Tech (Advanced Editing II*)
Camera: Panasonic DMC-FZ20
Location: My kitchen in La Jara, Coloado.
Date: Nov 29, 2004
Aperture: F4
ISO: 80
Shutter: 1/8
Galleries: Macro, Science and Technology
Date Uploaded: Nov 29, 2004

 Editing: Levels, increase saturation small amount, increase contrast +3; noise reduction; resize; unsharp mask; dodge writing on case, burn highlights on rule; sharpen numbers on rule; clone out dust speck on paper; save for web.

This is a pocket size slide rule - it came with a big one that has gotten lost somewhere along the way. I used this in high school 30 something years ago before calculators were invented. The pocket size slide rules were "tres chic" at the time.

Statistics
Place: 71 out of 177
Avg (all users): 5.4913
Avg (commenters): 6.8333
Avg (participants): 5.4000
Avg (non-participants): 5.6164
Views since voting: 910
Views during voting: 241
Votes: 173
Comments: 12
Favorites: 0

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 Comments Made During the Challenge
12/06/2004 10:58:08 PM
I have one much like that : )
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 12/06/2004 05:54:44 PM
I actually never did learn to use one of those things. Good subject, focus, colors and composition.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 12/06/2004 12:04:22 AM
Hmmm... No. No, I don't. ;-)
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 12/05/2004 07:45:18 AM
Great choice of low tech! Like the angles and offsets of the grid, sheath and rule. Everything seems balanced well and DOF is deep but nto distracting at all. The lighting has somehow caused the flap on the sheath to appear greenish as opposed to the black of the rest of the leather and this is very distracting. Not sure if that could be fixed with movement of lighting or in post-process. Overall very good image tho.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 12/01/2004 06:59:04 PM
And to think there was a time when I remembered how to use one. Great focus and I like the choice of graph paper for the background. Good job.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 12/01/2004 07:01:51 AM
I certainly do remember them :)
I think that this could have been a bit more dynamic if you would have got in closer so that the marks are more defined - great image nonetheless :)
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 11/30/2004 12:43:29 PM
Nice lines
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 11/30/2004 11:01:46 AM
Try running this through USM with settings of 40%, 60, and 0 (amount, radius, threshold) and see what you think. Makes it 'pop' a bit more in my opinion.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 11/30/2004 01:59:53 AM
nice clean image great shot- GL
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 11/30/2004 01:01:15 AM
Nice lighting and placement of items. No real pizazz though.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 11/30/2004 01:00:47 AM
These things amaze me. It blew me away to watch them use slide rules on Apollo 13. The convenient carrying case is a perfect element, as well as the graph paper background. The X shape of your subjects is also linear and mathematical. A great deal of thought went into this shot. I would have liked to see all the shadows eliminated so that it appeared even more clean and polished.
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 11/30/2004 12:10:45 AM
Sure!
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