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Challenge: Abstract Food (Advanced Editing IV)
Camera: Olympus C-70 / C-7000 Zoom
Location: Home Studio - Delhi, India
Date: Jul 16, 2006
Aperture: 2.8
ISO: 80
Shutter: 1/60
Galleries: Abstract, Photojournalism
Date Uploaded: Jul 16, 2006

 I was totally out of ideas but could not avoid myself participating after almost one month of abstinence from challenges :) So this is my last minute effort to submit something.

Setup- Acclaimed photo by "Finbarr O'Reilly" at the base. The glass bowl filled with water on top and some wheat pods floating on it.

Post-Processing - Cropped, Selective desaturation of background, Saturation of pods, levels, curves, saved for web and neatimage with some sharpening.

Btw, this is my 50’Th challenge submission and I wanted it to be "good". I don’t know how it fares, but I'm satisfied with final resulting photo. Hope it is seen as "abstract food" though I myself feel it is Abstract photo “related” to food :)

Statistics
Place: 41 out of 199
Avg (all users): 6.0905
Avg (commenters): 8.5000
Avg (participants): 5.5976
Avg (non-participants): 6.4063
Views since voting: 1442
Views during voting: 387
Votes: 210
Comments: 13
Favorites: 1 (view)

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 07/30/2006 07:56:42 PM
Greetings from the Critique Club!

WOW! I love this shot! Makes me wish I had voted on this challenge but since I'm not a big fan of abstract I avoided it. But this is a lovely picture, I would be proud to put this up on my wall.

The desaturation and clarity and DOF are all just truly wonderful to me so I'm not the one to try to critique this. I'm betting the only reason you did not win this challenge with this shot is because you got a fair amount of DNMC votes and looking at the spread of votes I was right, this does not in any way deserve a 3, 4 or 5 vote but what can you do?

Wonderful picture, welcome back to the challenges! Can't wait to see your name on the front page again!

I hope my comments help and Good Luck in future Challenges!

Deannda
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
07/23/2006 10:27:22 PM
arresting in its strangeness - nice work.
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 07/23/2006 06:43:47 AM
pretty weird
pretty good
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 07/21/2006 08:41:37 PM
Excellent abstract and great idea.
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 07/21/2006 02:47:49 PM
great dreamlike effect. 8
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 07/20/2006 09:03:16 PM
very cool!!! love the hads and face in the background - they really add a great deal to the shot. nice work!
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 07/20/2006 03:19:58 PM
WOW a wonderful SHOT!!!
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 07/20/2006 01:55:40 PM
This is interesting. I'm enjoying trying to figure out how you achieved this look. One complaint I have, related to the challenge, is this isn't really much of an abstract, at least IMO. Best of luck to you.
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 07/18/2006 12:10:22 AM
It seems the background and the foreground don't go together? Like the background is a print or display? Interesting concept.
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 07/17/2006 08:41:25 PM
Unique shot and nice light. Different.
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 07/17/2006 09:51:26 AM
here I see an excellent image but that I think is surealistic and not abstract.
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 07/17/2006 09:50:24 AM
Very nice selective desdat, contrast between fore and background, and composition. 10
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 07/17/2006 12:56:46 AM
that is tremendous...can see how you did this and it's spectacular...good luck
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