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Pine Cone
Pine Cone
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Challenge: Textures V (Basic Editing)
Camera: Canon EOS-350D Rebel XT
Lens: Quantaray AF 70-300mm f/4.0-5.6 LD Tele-Macro for Canon
Location: Living Room
Date: Dec 25, 2007
Aperture: 25
ISO: 100
Shutter: 5 sec
Galleries: Macro, Textures
Date Uploaded: Dec 25, 2007

 It took me a long time to think of a good photo for this contest. At the last minute I came across a basket of Pine Cones at my mother's house.

This was a two man effort with my dad holding the light and reflector and me behind the camera.

I used a white piece of paper as the background and harsh side lighting to really bring out the texture.

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Statistics
Place: 123 out of 222
Avg (all users): 5.4151
Avg (commenters): 5.9000
Avg (participants): 5.1481
Avg (non-participants): 5.5524
Views since voting: 675
Views during voting: 249
Votes: 159
Comments: 11
Favorites: 0

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 Comments Made During the Challenge
01/01/2008 11:06:20 AM
a little washed out towards the top but still nice.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 12/31/2007 01:06:59 AM
It is a little bit reddish in my opinion.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 12/30/2007 04:50:18 PM
Great textures! Strong, warm lighting and it's resulting shadows really show off the shapes. Nice.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 12/30/2007 04:25:02 PM
Really pretty lighting
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 12/30/2007 03:04:45 PM
Nice close up, I like the lighting.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 12/29/2007 09:20:25 AM
Like the warm tones , prefer a tighter crop to emphasize on the pine cone textures more also the shadows could also be a little less harsh - 6
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 12/29/2007 06:25:55 AM
Good use of side lighting to reveal texture, although maybe just a tad too bright. You have a number of sensor dust spots visible in the plain background - under basic rules you are allowed to clone/heal these.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 12/28/2007 05:27:20 PM
Nice lighting! Is it against the rules to edit out sensor dust?
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 12/26/2007 01:53:08 AM
Great composition.
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 12/26/2007 01:27:05 AM
Great composition and lighting....I'd clean that sensor dust off there though.
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 12/26/2007 12:55:40 AM
I like the composition, but the deep reddish orange color and the sensor dust is distracting.
  Photographer found comment helpful.


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