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Challenge: Gold (Advanced Editing IV)
Collection: Challenges
Camera: Pentax *ist DL
Lens: Pentax DA 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 AF
Location: Nashville
Date: Jul 22, 2006
Aperture: F/11
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/500
Galleries: Still Life
Date Uploaded: Jul 22, 2006

 A little spray paint, my new home-made light box, some shop lights and a 500W movie light and I'm ready to process. I tried various background colors but like the plain white the best. I don't expect greatness, but I enjoyed this one more than most. Spray painting pretzels is easier than you might think.
Cropped, adjust curves, clone a spec or two, soften the background a bit and save for DPC.

Statistics
Place: 95 out of 296
Avg (all users): 5.5856
Avg (commenters): 6.4167
Avg (participants): 5.5963
Avg (non-participants): 5.5694
Views since voting: 918
Views during voting: 272
Votes: 181
Comments: 14
Favorites: 0

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AuthorThread
 08/03/2006 05:12:41 PM
---Greetings from the Critique Club!---

First impression - Neat idea!

This is a great idea for the challenge. I commend your creativity and executing your idea.

The composition is good, as is the lighting.

To say what would have made this score better, I think it needs some sort of context. With the stark white background it appears to be floating in space. I think if you would have set this up with a bowl of dip, or used a table as the background, you might have done a bit better. 5.58 is a good score, particularly with the competition here at DPC. Put as much thought into the setting as you did the idea and your score would have been high, IMO.

I hope this was helpful. Feel free to contact me if you have any questions.

David
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
07/30/2006 12:48:02 PM
Looks like you found the golden-bag of pretzels! Does that mean you get a tour of the pretzel factor? ;) Nice picture.
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 07/29/2006 11:20:36 PM
Heh. I was wondering whether anyone would shoot this subject. :)
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 07/28/2006 12:26:53 PM
Very clever!
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 07/24/2006 07:52:54 PM
Great idea
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 07/24/2006 12:51:31 PM
great idea!
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 07/24/2006 11:05:18 AM
Great idea - nice photo!
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 07/24/2006 11:01:41 AM
Very clever and nicely done.
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 07/24/2006 04:34:05 AM
I wonder what they would be worth???

nice idea and well done
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 07/24/2006 01:53:14 AM
Cute. Very well thought out.
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 07/24/2006 01:35:01 AM
Meets Challenge:2
Aesthetics:2
Technical:1
Wow:0
Originality:1
Total Score:6

Thanks for painting them.
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 07/24/2006 01:33:21 AM
Creative!
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 07/24/2006 12:41:50 AM
Great Job!
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 07/24/2006 12:32:15 AM
I thought that waiting for challenge results was bad, you had to wait for paint to dry. I think that the lighting and focus is great and the framing is great.
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