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Color Wheel
Color Wheel
bowhenn


Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Burst of Color (Advanced Editing IV)
Camera: Konica Minolta Maxxum 5D
Lens: Konica Minolta AF 18-70mm f/3.5-5.6(D) DT
Location: Home
Date: Jan 7, 2006
Aperture: f/3.50
ISO: 100
Shutter: 30.00 sec
Galleries: Food and Drink
Date Uploaded: Jan 7, 2006

Shot on my kitchen counter with a handheld LED flashlight pointing to each fruit in sequence.

Raw Adjustments:
saturation, exposure, and brightness.

Other Adjustments:
crop, unsharp mask, minor spot cloning, selectively reduced the brightness to acheive darker surrounding, a little hue/saturation adjustment on the apple and grapes for better red and purple

Statistics
Place: 109 out of 244
Avg (all users): 5.5102
Avg (commenters): 5.9286
Avg (participants): 5.4138
Avg (non-participants): 5.5969
Views since voting: 959
Views during voting: 371
Votes: 245
Comments: 17
Favorites: 1 (view)


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01/19/2006 05:14:44 PM
Greetings from the Critique Club

What an original idea. And an excellent choice of fruit to exemplify the primaries and secondary colors. Focus of the fruit and dishes is spot on. The light painting works well mostly. It's a bit dark (and that's where your score suffered, I think) and there are a few hot spots as well. It is fun, though to see the design in the middle.

Someone more experienced in lighting techniques than I, would have to tell you how to get the effect you want without the hot spots and the overly dark shadows. I can only commend you for a gallant attempt and a really great idea.

I hope you continue to enjoy DPChallange. I will look forward to seeing more of your work.

ALice

 Comments Made During the Challenge
01/15/2006 01:59:48 AM
The individual lights are just such an unusual and effective setup
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01/14/2006 08:20:37 PM
Excellent take on the challenge... The white bowls offset the fruit wonderfully... It's obvious that lighting was a real challenge... you pulled it off beautifully... :)
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01/14/2006 03:14:33 PM
Well-illustrated but it could be a touch brighter.
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01/13/2006 12:17:49 AM
Great shot. The composition and subject here are very interesting. I like the contrasts between light and shadows. It looks as though the perspective is slightly skewed to the lower right as though the shot was not taken from the center? Just my humble opinion, nice shot nonetheless
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01/12/2006 12:51:50 AM
Clever arrangement.....
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01/11/2006 09:30:59 PM
Colors seem a bit flat, I'd like to see them 'pop!' a little more. But I like the idea with the colored foods.
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01/11/2006 09:27:24 PM
Perhaps not as colorful as one might expect in a "burst of color" challenge, but I like the idea. The image could probably be enhanced just by increasing the brightness (perhaps dodging the fruit to avoid overbrightening the rest of the image).
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01/09/2006 10:11:08 PM
Very creative! The 6 overlapping lights is a nice touch. My only wish might be that the colors were a bit more vibrant. (But that's just a nitpick.) Great job!
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01/09/2006 09:36:12 PM
Good image of colors and how the fruit define those colors--like a TV commercial. I'm curious of how the lighting was done? Good work
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01/09/2006 04:01:28 PM
great idea
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01/09/2006 03:24:17 PM
I do not feel that this "uses a colorful impact to offset your subject from the rest of the photograph."
01/09/2006 01:12:57 AM
very creative
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01/09/2006 12:59:14 AM
I like the composition a lot and the idea, but i think if the colors would have been brighter, it might score a little higher.
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01/09/2006 12:45:38 AM
Nice organic demonstration of the colorwheel. I like the way you used your lighting to outline the bowls, but it seems to have detracted from the bright colors of the fruits.
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01/09/2006 12:39:21 AM
Very clever! Nicely done.
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01/09/2006 12:36:39 AM
I really like the idea of this. 8
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