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Reconstituted potato
Reconstituted potato
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Challenge: Still Life (Classic Editing)
Camera: Nikon Coolpix 5400
Location: Home
Date: Nov 4, 2003
Aperture: f/7.4
ISO: 50
Shutter: 1/8
Galleries: Still Life, Studio
Date Uploaded: Oct 30, 2003

 Fought with this challenge for ages - tried all the standards: bowls, jugs, plates of fruit and vegetables, autumn leaves, and then I was peeling a potato for dinner, and had a thought ...

... still don't know if this is the right one to submit, but it is at least different from the orthodox, and I have a small tradition of slightly odd photographs now, so I'd better live up to it.

There's another version which is much more punchy tonally (a lot of work with curves) and more contrasty, but I've decided I like the play of light and tone here, so this is the submission.

Nothing clever lighting-wise: indirect sunlight through a blind, which acts as a great big difffuser. Pinned the peel back together and put it on a piece of white paper. Pleased with the texture in the paper, too.

Statistics
Place: 79 out of 326
Avg (all users): 5.6320
Avg (commenters): 7.6667
Avg (participants): 5.6423
Avg (non-participants): 5.6170
Views since voting: 1092
Votes: 231
Comments: 23
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AuthorThread
 12/31/2005 04:16:21 PM
are you planning on revisiting this ;-)
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 11/12/2003 02:17:02 AM
Thanks for all the comments, as ever - all much appreciated. Unusually, I'll go so far as to say the comments about the light are plain wrong - with a more even light the depth, texture and mood of the image would be ruined. Anyhow, it IS an even light, it's just from one direction only - or one area only, perhaps.
 Comments Made During the Challenge
11/11/2003 11:01:45 PM
Unique and imaginative, almost voodooesque. ;-)
The needles alone are a jazz, compositionally.
The light is a little dim, perhaps, on the right. What do you think?
The title, too, is nice and dry, avoiding the trivial.

The subject, to me, is a work of art, the image a photo documenting it.
In my book: subject 10, photo 5 > opus 7.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 11/11/2003 05:37:09 PM
what a work of sculpture! I like the staples and pins. Wish you had light coming from the right too - it is a bit too shadowy there.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 11/11/2003 05:25:49 PM
very creative idea!! lighting could be a little better to remove shadows but you get extra points for creativity! 9
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 11/11/2003 03:07:21 PM
very cool idea. could use a touch more light. extra points for the manual labor! hehe.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 11/11/2003 01:38:58 PM
Fantastic concept... I like it!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 11/11/2003 11:12:14 AM
Interesting idea and an interesting combination of shapes, texture and angles. Other than to take a picture, why would anyone want to reconstitute a potato?
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 11/11/2003 11:08:42 AM
How did You get this idea ? Funny.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 11/11/2003 07:51:47 AM
funny idea! :o)
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 11/10/2003 08:12:02 PM
Cool concept. Decent execution. I don't know what it is about his picture that makes me want to give it a 7 instead of an 8.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 11/10/2003 04:58:33 PM
very funny, well needled together...
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 11/10/2003 12:52:58 PM
nice macro and lighting...shows good detail
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 11/09/2003 03:53:15 AM
Interesting concept. Very good closeup of the potato skin. You can almost feel the texture of the skin. Lighting is very good. It helps highlight the pins. "10"
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 11/08/2003 11:37:48 PM
Very Nice. Different and creative approach!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 11/08/2003 10:50:25 PM
Bonus point sfor originality! Lighting seems a little dark on the right...
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 11/06/2003 07:44:05 PM
Awesome idea for a picture. Very unique. :)
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 11/06/2003 09:55:04 AM
it's an interesting object, very well composed.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 11/05/2003 07:26:56 PM
well, it's definitelly funny... :)
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 11/05/2003 07:19:31 PM
Fun idea. Well executed.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 11/05/2003 04:22:26 PM
Interesting--for some reason, it reminds me of a Salvidor Dali painting.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 11/05/2003 08:14:03 AM
like the idea. more lightining on the right side would have been better though.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 11/05/2003 03:14:03 AM
Original photo. The lighting and detail are excellent as well as the colour
  Photographer found comment helpful.


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