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Egg and Spoon
Egg and Spoon
Fromac


Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Unrelatedness (Advanced Editing IV)
Camera: Canon PowerShot A620
Location: Guelph, Ontario
Date: Sep 28, 2006
Aperture: 2.8
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/60
Galleries: Still Life, Food and Drink
Date Uploaded: Sep 29, 2006

The set-up...

I shot this on a piece of black bristol-board (card stock).

I built a tent of white paper over it to diffuse the light, and lit with a 500w halogen work lamp, and a battery powered utility light.

Taped a half-inch length of toothpick to the egg to make it stand properly.

Editing...

Cropped; added layers for brightness/contrast, curves.

Cloned out some spots on the paper and the most obvious blemishes on the spoon.

I deliberately left some of the small lumps visible on the egg, so it would still look like an egg.

Ran it through Neat Image. Then USM.

Resized for upload.

Statistics
Place: 102 out of 134
Avg (all users): 5.1429
Avg (commenters): 6.3333
Avg (participants): 4.8621
Avg (non-participants): 5.2909
Views since voting: 850
Views during voting: 264
Votes: 168
Comments: 7
Favorites: 0


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 Comments Made During the Challenge
10/06/2006 12:21:58 PM
An egg and a spoon actually do kinda go together.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
10/05/2006 11:18:00 AM
Nice DOF & Sepia!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
10/03/2006 05:45:57 PM
Shame you didn't control the depth of field and keep the whole spoon in focus. Also probably needs an adjustment to the white balance and maybe some additional lighting to make it pop.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
10/03/2006 04:41:20 AM
nice composition, but not too interesting subject
  Photographer found comment helpful.
10/02/2006 02:58:42 PM
well done, compleatly unrelated yet well matched, good luck
  Photographer found comment helpful.
10/02/2006 01:03:33 PM
Having placed third in an official egg-in-spoon race ( in a very small sports tournament involving perhaps four people ) I question whether these are unrelated enough to meet the challenge. Still, I like the combination..
  Photographer found comment helpful.
10/02/2006 12:15:43 AM
lovely clear shot with a nice composition...great tonality
  Photographer found comment helpful.


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