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Kisses From The Heart
Kisses From The Heart
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Challenge: Candy II (Advanced Editing V)
Camera: Nikon D80
Lens: Nikon AF Zoom-Nikkor 18-135mm f/3.5- 5.6G ED DX
Location: My Room
Date: Sep 6, 2007
Aperture: 36.0
ISO: 100
Shutter: 30 sec
Galleries: Macro, Food and Drink
Date Uploaded: Sep 9, 2007

 Hey so I really like this picture so I'm hoping it does well. So I had the idea of using to Hershey kisses to make a heart but it wasn't till the very last picture that I had the idea to do a multiple exposure. Basically set the shutter to 30 sec and turned all the lights off. I started zoomed all the way in, then using an external flash I zoomed out a little then used the flash once about 7 times. This was taken in my "studio" which consisted of 2 shoeboxes a black shirt and a piece of black construction paper.
Post Processing:
Opened in camera raw and played with exposure
Cropped and rotated
Opened in CS3:
Removed some of the glare from the flash
Whitened the ribbons a little
Cloned out a line where my background (piece of black construction paper) met with the bottom (black shirt)
Sharpened
That’s it!

Statistics
Place: 58 out of 141
Avg (all users): 5.6108
Avg (commenters): 6.7500
Avg (participants): 5.4407
Avg (non-participants): 5.7037
Views since voting: 901
Views during voting: 282
Votes: 167
Comments: 13
Favorites: 1 (view)

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 09/17/2007 01:08:43 AM
WOW trippy
good shot(:
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
09/16/2007 02:24:10 AM
10! Very nice effect. Doesn't look overdone to me.
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 09/14/2007 12:14:40 PM
Is that a zoom or reflection? Cool idea. Love the heart shape as well.
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 09/13/2007 11:58:37 AM
smart idea of something real simple. I like it
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 09/11/2007 06:54:38 PM
Great idea. Tell me, is it really all done with mirrors?
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 09/11/2007 02:26:10 PM
interesting abstract - i think it would have been better with a little different - more diffuse lighting so that you don't end up with the severe hot spots
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 09/10/2007 09:42:40 PM
nice capture, the heart in the center works well :)
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 09/10/2007 10:49:00 AM
Interesting!
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 09/10/2007 07:23:01 AM
That's a lotta kisses. The lighting seems to detract, though. Maybe a gel diffuser?
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 09/10/2007 06:50:32 AM
Odd but i thought of the Moonwalker video...
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 09/10/2007 06:48:13 AM
Great idea and well presented!
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 09/10/2007 06:18:29 AM
can't look toolong at this or I'll get dizzy ;-) i'm curious how you did this seeing it's advanced editing.
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 09/10/2007 05:07:45 AM
Great concept and composition although it is coming up a little dark on my monitor which unfortunately distracts a bit from the overall impact of the shot
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