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Challenge: Glass II (with a twist) (Basic Editing III)
Camera: Konica Minolta DiMAGE Z10
Location: Bedroom, Milton Keynes, UK
Date: Jun 23, 2006
Aperture: f/3.3
ISO: 64
Shutter: 1/125
Galleries: Still Life, Macro
Date Uploaded: Jun 26, 2006

 These are some blue glass pebbles we have loads of in a vase. I used a curved frosted light shade to give a nice background.

I'll be honest, this was not what I aiming to produce. The original shot was much, much wider, but as I cropped, and cropped I really liked this smaller section. The glass pebbles aren't even this colour. My camera has quite abit of noise, so I've used NeatImage to.

PP in CS:
Heavy cropping
Adjustment layer to whole image for curves to boost contrast
Adjustment layer to whole image for Hue/Sat to boost colour and change colour of the pebble from blue to a deep punchy red
run through NeatImage to clean up the background.

Save for web, cross fingers and pray.


Statistics
Place: 88 out of 258
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Avg (commenters): 6.1429
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Votes: 292
Comments: 16
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 07/11/2006 10:20:01 AM
Critique club Comment,

Hi from the Critique Club.

This is not a bad picture, and there’s not realy much I could say to improve this. However, as commented I too would like to see all 3 “marbles” in the picture, and make it more visual interesting, just to get that WOW effect.
I like the reflections in the glass, I see 1 with a face, 1 with a head and 1 with an eye. Bit creepy too :b
Hope this helps you in any way.

Keep up the good work.

Peter
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
07/04/2006 10:12:31 AM
Nice, simple composition. The lighting is a little distracting.
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 07/03/2006 07:38:42 PM
a little too plain.
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 07/03/2006 01:50:07 PM
nice composition. i'm glad they arent centered. also the color is intense, makes it work well
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 07/02/2006 05:22:21 PM
I like the crispness of the glass stones.
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 06/30/2006 10:07:34 PM
Very interesting reflections in the glass. The one on the lower left has a charicature (sp?) of a face?
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 06/30/2006 05:24:37 PM
Colors - very good; shadows- very good. But something about the positioning or crop is not working for me.
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 06/30/2006 01:58:25 PM
Those are some big drops of blood thick too
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 06/30/2006 11:04:52 AM
Very nice and simple, good colour. WIsh the right hand bead was entirely inside the frame.
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 06/29/2006 08:36:20 PM
I love the sharpness.
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 06/29/2006 06:15:35 PM
Good colour and light. Well done.
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 06/29/2006 04:04:44 PM
Charming in its simplicity. Good framing.
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 06/29/2006 02:39:21 PM
plain, simple and nice
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 06/29/2006 01:14:51 PM
The reflections in the beads is intersting. Well executed shot.
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 06/29/2006 10:04:40 AM
this looks grea technically. focus and all is good. just a tad boring. I generally love simplistic photo and suffer from the bore factor too. nice reflections though.
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 06/28/2006 01:23:39 PM
it would make for a stronger image to me if all were in the frame of the image.
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