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Six of a Kind
Six of a Kind
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Challenge: Six (Advanced Editing VII*)
Camera: Pentax K100D
Lens: Sigma 50mm f/2.8 EX DG Macro for Pentax
Location: My Office
Date: Jan 20, 2008
Aperture: f/22
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/6
Galleries: Still Life, Macro
Date Uploaded: Jan 20, 2008

 Wasn't going to enter, but just playing around with my macro with these cards on my desk.

Shot in RAW under soft white flourescents, adjusted color balance and fiddled with some other settings in the Pentax Raw editor, opened in PSElements and adjusted levels, desaturated everything except the red channel, then backed that off a little, big USM adjustment (high radius about 30%) to glow the card markings, messed around with some different borders and settled on this one.

Decided to enter against my better judgment. But oh well, after this many failed experiments how bad can another 5.x hurt.

Statistics
Place: 114 out of 134
Avg (all users): 4.8065
Avg (commenters): 4.7857
Avg (participants): 4.4909
Avg (non-participants): 4.9389
Views since voting: 773
Views during voting: 283
Votes: 186
Comments: 17
Favorites: 0

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 Comments Made During the Challenge
01/27/2008 05:02:41 PM
the halos indicate over-processing to me.
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 01/27/2008 02:08:53 PM
I think you went a bit overboard on the PP. The strong halos throughout the image don't really help the image IMHO.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 01/26/2008 01:30:55 AM
Cool shot, I like the oversharpened look as it gives this an edgey feel.
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 01/25/2008 01:57:59 PM
One of my favorites!!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 01/25/2008 10:26:46 AM
This picture is very creative. It has two focal points, one being the cards the other one being the dice. I like how it has a repeating pattern with the cards (6666) and then the dice in front of it showing three on one and three on the other dice which equals six which I think is very creative. Also in the cery front on a different side of the dice it also shows six. So you can tell this picture was very thought out and i love how its just black and white, it really makes you see what the focal point is.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 01/24/2008 07:45:10 PM
Don't hilight the edges of the subject(s) like that, this could have been a great picture though...
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 01/24/2008 11:36:49 AM
I don't like the graininess... looks oversharpened. Cool concept though.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 01/23/2008 11:19:39 PM
DOF is a bit low on this.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 01/23/2008 03:56:44 PM
Cool
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 01/22/2008 11:49:07 PM
careful with post processing - halo around the shapes and numbers too obvious
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 01/22/2008 02:24:06 PM
Oversharpened (halos) and posterizing in upper right corner. Basically, it's overprocessed.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 01/22/2008 02:22:14 PM
Looks to be a bit noisy, otherwise nicely done.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 01/21/2008 11:36:53 PM
a tad grainy,6
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 01/21/2008 11:04:19 PM
I would like to see this in black and white
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 01/21/2008 10:30:51 PM
I like the tight crop, but very 'sharpened' halo around everything and the focus loses it in the foreground.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 01/21/2008 09:33:14 PM
over sharpened.
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 01/21/2008 07:59:46 AM
This is a good idea but it's a little grainy. The grain just doesn't fit the image
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