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Steel Waves
Steel Waves
ScottK


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Challenge: Macro III (Classic Editing*)
Camera: Canon PowerShot A40
Location: My home, Oceanside, CA
Date: Dec 17, 2003
Aperture: f/3.5
ISO: 50
Shutter: 1 sec.
Galleries: Abstract, Macro
Date Uploaded: Dec 18, 2003

 Six not very precise steak knives, stacked and staggered. Shot these looking from the top down, then rotated to make it appear they're lying, blade up. Lighting was just ambient light from two table lamps in the room, with a long (1 second) exposure. DOF was narrower than I wanted - I realized later I should have zoomed out more to get a deeper DOF, but won't have a chance to go back and reshoot, so here it is.

There were lots of tiny hot spots that were cloned out on the blades and handles (though most of the handle work got cropped in the end). Applied curves and selective colors, some with a mask on the blades.

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Place: 71 out of 165
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
12/23/2003 02:04:19 PM
Oh, I like this idea! Very unique and different! The title fits very well but the handle are distracating. I would love to see this with a tighter crop and the blades at the same angle. A 9
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 12/23/2003 01:54:29 PM
This one certainly made me look, look and look again. I like the slightly surreal edge it has - both content wise and compositionally.
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 12/22/2003 03:48:07 PM
An interesting shot with a lot of potential and done in quite a good way. I'm impressed that you successfully managed to limit the amount of chromatic aberrations that you got.

If you could achieve it then I think that you should have attempted to get depth of field of just one knife and throw all the others out of focus. If this was impossible with your camera then maybe you should have tried to get a depth of field so that all of the knives were in focus.

I am okay with the composition that you have, but I do think that you have too much negative space at the top of your picture for a properly balanced image. Also as macro is a fantastic way of isolating just a tiny part of a larger object I was wondering whether or not you had tried a very tight crop of just the blades of the knives? I just held up a couple of pieces of paper to my screen and used one hand to get a very tight crop -- I feel that it makes the picture more interesting and makes it harder to tell what you're looking at. If you have not tried this then I really do suggest that you try it. If I did not explain that very well, then sent me the picture and I will send you back a copy of what I mean.

Good picture with a lot of potential, and well edited. Good luck.
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 12/22/2003 10:49:37 AM
nice composition....strong lines....
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 12/22/2003 09:13:52 AM
interesting!!
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