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Yellow Bell Pepper
Yellow Bell Pepper
Sunshine86


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Challenge: Fruits and Vegetables II (Advanced Editing V)
Camera: Canon EOS-350D Rebel XT
Location: alaska
Date: Feb 5, 2007
Aperture: f/5
ISO: 400
Shutter: 1/100
Date Uploaded: Feb 5, 2007

 A lot going on in this photo and it took me a lot of shots to get satisfied.
OK so it is not exactly stop motion, there was some fishing line cloned out that was holding the pepper in position. I had 3 common around the house lamps illuminating the pepper and the hand...and the pepper was doused with water to give it the wet look. Behind the pepper was a bright orange colored peice of construction paper. And that is a friend's hand not mine, luckily he was there to help!

I decided to go with selective desaturation because it makes the pepper POP off the screen, atleast to me. The picture is kinda meant to be surreal looking, and for the viewer to not exactly be sure as to weather the pepper is being caught or tossed.

Editing:
Selective Desat on everything but the pepper, selective color changes in the Reds and yellows, Selective sharpening on the pepper and hand, slight neat image and gaussian blur on background only, and Dodge/burn to get the highlights and shadows just right. Image was also cropped and rotated slightly.

Statistics
Place: 222 out of 346
Avg (all users): 5.3114
Avg (commenters): 5.3333
Avg (participants): 5.1980
Avg (non-participants): 5.4848
Views since voting: 610
Views during voting: 235
Votes: 167
Comments: 7
Favorites: 0

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AuthorThread
 02/21/2007 01:13:24 AM
This scored way too low.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
02/16/2007 01:47:54 AM
a little more original than most
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 02/12/2007 03:00:57 PM
Really nice use of B&W with color. Nicely setup, and very nicely composed.
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 02/12/2007 12:19:41 PM
I don't like desat skin unless it's a B/W pic. This is well done, but I don't like the effect, sorry.
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 02/12/2007 10:47:06 AM
congratulations - this photograph contains a fruit and/or a vegetable, therefore it meets the challenge! well done!

i don't think the selective desaturation works for this one. sorry! 5!
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 02/12/2007 09:15:28 AM
I see vignetting (is that a word?) around the left side of the pepper. The focus is good but it just seems a tad flat.
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 02/12/2007 01:33:32 AM
The desat here is not working for me. Not sure if it's overall a bit dark or if it's just me. Focus is very good.
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