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Xitomatl
Xitomatl
rblanton


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Challenge: Complementary Colors III (Basic Editing III)
Camera: Canon EOS-10D
Lens: Tamron SP AF 28-75mm f/2.8 XR Di for Canon
Location: My Dining Room
Date: Apr 24, 2006
Aperture: 4.0
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/2000
Galleries: Still Life
Date Uploaded: Apr 25, 2006

Under a skylight a tomato (the Aztec word for tomato is... Xitomatl and the root of our word tomato) and an apple in a southwestern bowl. I don't think the Aztecs had Apples but if they did it would be something like Xiapplzot.

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Place: 218 out of 287
Avg (all users): 4.7082
Avg (commenters): 4.4167
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Views since voting: 670
Views during voting: 333
Votes: 257
Comments: 14
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
05/01/2006 12:07:20 PM
Needs a much tighter crop to emphasize main subjects.
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04/30/2006 10:15:45 PM
Nice light.
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04/30/2006 08:42:52 PM
seems a little too centered. Great clarity and sharpness
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04/30/2006 09:55:26 AM
needswork but theres a godo idea somehwere. it has unexploited potential
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04/30/2006 06:58:09 AM
There are not complementary colours here, I think the apple is ment to be green, but it needs to be a bright green, not a kinda red kinda green.
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04/29/2006 10:06:48 PM
the colors look orange and yellowish-green on my monitor so I don't see any comp colors but pleasing set up
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04/29/2006 08:05:38 PM
interesting and different
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04/29/2006 01:05:08 PM
*I am only commenting, and not voting on this challenge*

Interesting composition.. I quite likke it. However, where is the complement to the red? Green is what we're looking for, and while there are greenish aspects to your apple, it's far too muted and too yellow to really work in a challenge such as this, I suspect. An otherwise wonderful photo, and your title has made me go to google.
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04/29/2006 10:58:55 AM
like the lighting better than the subject.
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04/27/2006 08:25:28 AM
love the use of natural light here
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04/26/2006 07:14:48 PM
3 - Simple enough, but in my opinion the choice of bowl and also surface compete too much for attention away from your main subjects and therefore detract, especially from the color scheme, in my opinion. Also the choice of apple and tomato together would have to be a special and unusual shot to work, in my opinion.
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04/26/2006 06:00:01 PM
Not really complementary. The strong shadows, the reflexes on the tomato, the apple and the bowl, as weel as the background don't help either. Not a good one, sorry.
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04/26/2006 11:41:28 AM
I wonder how people have been interpreting the bowl. I like it.
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04/26/2006 05:37:31 AM
interesting...not sure how it meets the challenge though
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