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Each Drink You Have Before Driving...
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Challenge: Still Life III (Basic Editing)
Camera: Nikon D40
Location: My basement
Date: Jul 22, 2007
Aperture: f4.5
ISO: 400
Shutter: 8 seconds
Date Uploaded: Jul 23, 2007

 My first challenge entry with my brand new D40. Basically I went down into my basement, set up some black sheets against the back of a couch and on a box for the wine glasses. Filled them to their respective levels with grape juice and started shooting. 17 tries later and I got this! I wanted a white background but couldn't find anything that appeared a flat white in the end result to use as the background.

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Statistics
Place: 179 out of 233
Avg (all users): 4.7547
Avg (commenters): 5.0000
Avg (participants): 4.6271
Avg (non-participants): 4.8300
Views since voting: 694
Views during voting: 210
Votes: 159
Comments: 11
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 08/03/2007 10:39:02 PM
works for me too! but I didn't vote... sorry...
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 08/03/2007 01:51:19 AM
I guess people didn't get it - the focus get fuzzier the more drinks ya have etc... but oh well - Even though it didn't work for a lot of people it still works for me.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
07/30/2007 08:37:06 PM
did u use a flash? the usual problem with glass is to front light it, you will need a large light source (much larger than the glass itself) or else u will get these hotspots. nice try anyways.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 07/30/2007 02:17:06 AM
Too dark IMO
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 07/27/2007 01:35:27 AM
this is awesome! I sure hope people get it - 10
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 07/25/2007 06:25:38 PM
Great use of depth of field to make the point. I wonder what the effect would be if the first glass was lit better
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 07/25/2007 09:58:32 AM
Nice idea but a little too dark IMO.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 07/25/2007 07:13:31 AM
too dark over all, IMO
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 07/25/2007 05:10:24 AM
a little to dark and to much of the object are out of focus. Not really nice to look at. If you had used white wine or something like that, it would have been much nicer.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 07/25/2007 12:37:26 AM
Very funny, I like the use of perspective and clarity (or lack of it) to demonstrate your theme/title. Eveything works very well together.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 07/25/2007 12:24:04 AM
too dark


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