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Challenge: The Number 10 (Advanced Editing IV)
Camera: Canon EOS-20D
Lens: Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 USM Macro
Location: home studio
Date: Jul 6, 2006
Aperture: f10
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/4 sec
Date Uploaded: Jul 5, 2006

The shot was taken in a light tent; collected a few of my old well-used watercolor brushes and tried a million different arrangements: this was the one that worked for me..probably nobody else, either. Levels, hue/saturation, brightness/contrast, unsharp mask, curves, crop.
sorry the brushes aren't clean but I couldn't get the old paint stains to rub off.

Statistics
Place: 87 out of 219
Avg (all users): 5.5126
Avg (commenters): 7.2500
Avg (participants): 5.3735
Avg (non-participants): 5.6121
Views since voting: 649
Views during voting: 271
Votes: 199
Comments: 5
Favorites: 0


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 Comments Made During the Challenge
07/12/2006 05:03:59 PM
Excellent image...like the diagonal...wish you could see the brush ends, but then I suppose the 10 would be too small, and since it is a "10" challenge...8
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07/11/2006 07:30:09 PM
I love the detail and the realism. Very nice.
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07/11/2006 02:11:41 AM
Meets the challenge very well. I think the lighting is perfect but I don't like the use of soft focus (not sure if it was purposeful or not). I think in this case I'd prefer something sharper. I also wish there were more paintbrushes to fill in the area with the grey tray thingie in the bottom left corner or that it was cropped out. I find myself scrolling the page to remove it from the image I see and definitely liking that better. Nicely done. 5.
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07/10/2006 11:04:39 PM
The lighting appears quite dull to me. Not sure why. Good strong composition and subject matter though, and I like it - 6 :)
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07/10/2006 04:29:25 PM
I like the angle you chose on the brushes, it adds a good dynamic to the image. 9
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