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Candle in amaretto
Candle in amaretto
hajeka


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Challenge: Brown (Basic Editing)
Collection: 2006
Camera: Canon EOS-20D
Lens: Canon EF-S 60mm f/2.8 Macro USM
Location: At home
Date: Dec 14, 2006
Aperture: f16.0
ISO: 100
Shutter: 13.0s
Galleries: Still Life, Macro
Date Uploaded: Dec 13, 2006

 A candle through a glass Amaretto.
It was my second, so luckely I had a tripod :-)

Shooted in raw, noise reduction and some cropping/sharpening.
Had to change my standard sharpening method ( //news.deviantart.com/article/20250/ ). I don't know if this is allowed with basic editing, so I used standard photoshop sharpening (don't think it's better).

After the votes: I can live with the critiques, too much mess on my desk, although it didn't disturb me. Thank you all for comment.

Statistics
Place: 283 out of 306
Avg (all users): 4.2843
Avg (commenters): 3.0000
Avg (participants): 4.0879
Avg (non-participants): 4.4528
Views since voting: 1400
Views during voting: 279
Votes: 197
Comments: 13
Favorites: 0

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 Comments Made During the Challenge
12/26/2006 05:14:54 PM
You needed to clear up the clutter on your set more. There are far too many distracting reflections. Also, I don't feel it meets the 'brown' challenge well.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 12/26/2006 01:07:26 PM
too busy, must .. find .. reason ... to look
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 12/26/2006 07:42:33 AM
interesting, but not much brown here
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 12/25/2006 03:29:24 PM
The idea is nice, but, since you have full control of everything in the picture, doing a still life like this requires a level of perfectionism that goes way beyond other types of photography. In this shot, we can see everything on your desk, which pulls focus away from the candle and the glass. You might want to use a sheet to hide everything. Also, the glass appears to be either scratched or dirty. For a brown challenge, there isn't much brown. You might try putting something brown in the background to make the amaretto darker.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 12/22/2006 12:51:52 PM
There are some distracign reflections in the glass that need fixing, and the candle is a little blurry...but good try. Keep shooting!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 12/22/2006 10:19:50 AM
Good idea but need to get rid some of the reflection in the glass
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 12/22/2006 04:55:22 AM
strange
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 12/21/2006 11:57:17 PM
The reflections are too busy. I don't know if this was intentional or not.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 12/21/2006 06:59:14 AM
Oh my...I really don't like the reflections in the glass. I see all kinds of things laying around.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 12/20/2006 03:47:42 PM
wheres the brown
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 12/20/2006 01:38:03 PM
The reflections are a little distracting.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 12/20/2006 11:02:22 AM
I find the reflections distracting ...
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 12/20/2006 12:45:17 AM
The reflections are very distracting
  Photographer found comment helpful.


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