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...The Golden Eggs
...The Golden Eggs
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Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Gold (Advanced Editing IV)
Camera: Canon EOS-350D Rebel XT
Lens: Sigma 105mm f/2.8 EX DG Macro for Canon
Location: san francisco
Date: Jul 22, 2006
Aperture: f32
ISO: 100
Shutter: 8 seconds
Galleries: Nature, Rural
Date Uploaded: Jul 23, 2006

 Slight crop, curves, lots of dodging to make surroundings glow, smart sharpen. Tiny bit of cloning to make 'eggs' as perfect as possible.

Theme is of course a take off on the goose who laid the golden eggs.

Statistics
Place: 87 out of 296
Avg (all users): 5.6684
Avg (commenters): 6.7500
Avg (participants): 5.6404
Avg (non-participants): 5.7105
Views since voting: 902
Views during voting: 256
Votes: 190
Comments: 6
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 08/04/2006 01:17:12 AM
Greetings from the Critique Club.

Hi Alice.

This shot does have a lovely warm glow to it. You have compiling a lovely composition with some excellent well-thought out touches (such as the feathers). The eggs seem a little too soft, and do not really stand-out from the nest - I think they need more yellow in their gold to give them some pop. I'm not really sure how you went about lighting this so all I'll say on the subject is that the slight highlights on the eggs are perfect and the shadows are appropriatly soft.

I notice you used an 8 second shutter speed with a small aperture. I think a wider aperture (say around F10) with a faster shutter would have produced a crisper image.

To grow your vote: The core subject (the eggs) should stand-out better to really capture your audiences eye. This would mean sharper with mroe contrast between them and the background.

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

Cheers
Paul
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
07/30/2006 08:40:39 PM
This is really great, and bumping it up.....
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 07/24/2006 01:10:25 AM
Meets Challenge:2
Aesthetics:2
Technical:1
Wow:0
Originality:1
Total Score:6
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 07/24/2006 12:37:14 AM
Great Job!
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 07/24/2006 12:33:16 AM
very good...where's the goose? I hope you didn't send it home after the shoot ;-)
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 07/24/2006 12:27:16 AM
I would like to see a crisper Image. Good shot though.
  Photographer found comment helpful.


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