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Challenge: Shallow DOF II (Basic Editing III)
Camera: Canon EOS-300D Rebel
Lens: Sigma 50-500mm f/4.0-6.3 EX APO RF HSM for Canon
Location: Cape Town
Date: Dec 20, 2005
Aperture: f/5.6
ISO: 100
Shutter: 0.4 sec
Galleries: Still Life
Date Uploaded: Dec 20, 2005

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Needs a bit of spot editing. Also should have been lit from the side and not from the top.

Statistics
Place: 60 out of 346
Avg (all users): 5.9033
Avg (commenters): 6.0000
Avg (participants): 5.5701
Avg (non-participants): 6.1235
Views since voting: 1317
Views during voting: 445
Votes: 269
Comments: 12
Favorites: 2 (view)

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 04/20/2006 11:29:05 PM
Great take on a classic. I like the S curve you used and the shallow DOF works well. Nice vibrant colors too.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
12/27/2005 07:38:41 PM
I love the flow of the pencil points. Colors are dramatic. High contrast works well. The off-black background is perfect allowing for some shadowing. Among my top picks. Hope this does well in the voting.
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 12/27/2005 06:11:41 PM
Good setup and great composition and great lighting. However, I think DOF could've been a bit more shallow. I'm still rating this pretty high, though. :)
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 12/27/2005 03:29:31 PM
nice image
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 12/23/2005 08:46:30 PM
Nice idea, but I would actually want this picture to be sharp all the way.
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 12/22/2005 03:31:06 PM
DOF isn't very shallow, especially for the subject.
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 12/22/2005 10:04:16 AM
To many in focus
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 12/22/2005 06:40:31 AM
6 - Nice. Criticism; attention to minor aspects like the gold print on the pencils, a slightly different crop and/or angle, to allow the 'beginning' and the 'end' to fade in and out in 'synch' (the bottom right has some space in front of it which if similar to the top left would 'flow' better) and perhaps trying to attain more 'shallow DOF'/blur at beginning and end, would have likely made this even better in my opinion. Not sure on the base, 'works', but it seems to be competing with the colors/pencils too much. Also just noticed some shadow play so perhaps incorporating that may have given this an extra element as well.
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 12/21/2005 10:23:37 PM
Excellent
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 12/21/2005 06:38:14 PM
Pencils, books, and money seem to be a DOF theme...
 12/21/2005 05:37:04 PM
Very creative! Nicely done. I would have liked a little shallower DOF, but this is definitely cool!
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 12/21/2005 12:24:08 PM
Deja vu - 5
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