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Blues for Ducky
Blues for Ducky
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Challenge: Object Isolation by Contrast (Advanced Editing V)
Camera: Canon EOS-D30
Lens: Canon EF 17-40mm f/4.0L USM
Location: London
Date: Dec 29, 2007
Aperture: f4
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1s
Date Uploaded: Dec 29, 2007

 I was out at a friend's house and they had these ducks in their bathroom, so I thought "challenge" and grabbed my gear from the car. The background is three leather placemats balanced like a corner on their kitchen table. I've got a selection of outtakes from their legos that I'll up after the challenge - personally I'm not sure that one isn't better than this, but won't be as appealing and more abstract. I was torn between cropping out a lot of the top of the photo but it didn't feel right and I prefer the space there, although I'm not sure others will feel the same.

This is my attempt at doing something appealing because this isn't the sort of thing I'd usually shoot. Should be interesting to see how it does although I don't expect much from it when it comes to voting. I think the muted colours might not be appealing enough, or maybe rubber ducky is overdone. I guess I'll see...

PP: cloned out visible mess and edges to the leather mats, which had obvious cup marks everywhere...you can still see faint outlines on the back left if you look but I didn't want to mess with it too much. Brought up saturation and a touch of blue in the blue duck, adjusted yellow of the others. Sharpened blue duck, noise ninja, resize, jpg.

Statistics
Place: 97 out of 188
Avg (all users): 5.6107
Avg (commenters): 7.5000
Avg (participants): 5.4516
Avg (non-participants): 5.7241
Views since voting: 690
Views during voting: 234
Votes: 149
Comments: 4
Favorites: 0

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 Comments Made During the Challenge
01/05/2008 03:56:20 PM
great use of color contrasts...
Didn't see much in the way of yellow on blue or red on green in this challenge as I expected...
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 01/04/2008 07:55:49 AM
This made me smile. I love the way it looks like he is looking at you, and they are all looking at him!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 12/31/2007 08:02:39 PM
Cute and fits the challenge well.
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 12/31/2007 06:24:53 AM
Another ducky!! Different colour this time. Well composed and great colour contrast. Quack, quack!!!
  Photographer found comment helpful.


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