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Spoonful of sugar
Spoonful of sugar
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Challenge: Blurry Mess (Basic Editing)
Camera: Nikon D50
Lens: Nikon AF Micro-Nikkor 60mm f2.8D
Location: My kitchen
Date: Mar 10, 2008
Aperture: f16
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/500 s
Galleries: Still Life, Black and White
Date Uploaded: Mar 11, 2008

 It broke my heart to blur up a beautifully sharp image. My only worry is that I haven't blurred it up enough.

Post challenge:
I don’t mind a low score (liar ;-)!! Well, I don’t if I think (eventually) that it’s fair. In this case it was.
Three things bothered me though.
Firstly, I beat Richard Yanko last week to get into the finals of the Enzo Tourny. With my crap score I knew I would now definitely be in third place behind Tim timfythetoo and Jason DrAchoo.
I worried that if Richard was sitting on a +7 score this week he might have won! However, he assured me that his score was pretty low too. This cheered me up, but not a lot.
Secondly, I wanted to beat Tim and Jason ;-) No chance!!! Great going, you guys. Congrats.
Thirdly, this was my first week in the German Olympic Team and I came up with my worst score ever. Sorry, teammates!

Thanks for the comments. They were very helpful.
Here is the sharp version.
Deb Melethia hit the nail on the head. The blur just doesn’t add to the photo.

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 Comments Made During the Challenge
03/18/2008 09:45:42 PM
Not sure this is enough of a blurry mess
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 03/16/2008 09:56:26 AM
Sweet! A different take on this challenge. Not the most blurry or chaotic thing here, but enough to make it work.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 03/15/2008 09:12:26 PM
interesting
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 03/15/2008 08:37:42 PM
good and blurry where needed. 7
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 03/15/2008 11:03:21 AM
OOF.
 03/14/2008 02:41:01 PM
I really like your idea, but maybe not for this challenge.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 03/13/2008 03:55:46 PM
good image that to me, seems right on the boundaries of the challenge parameters....
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 03/12/2008 02:45:34 PM
Well composed and executed but I'm not quite sure I see where blur adds to this. This is one where because of the granularity of sugar would probably be a better picture if crisp and clear.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 03/12/2008 12:53:38 PM
This really only is slightly out of focus and doesn't meet the challenge. This would have worked much better without the spoon and with blurry sugar falling by itself (like if you had cropped a picture out of the bottom there).
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 03/12/2008 12:37:50 AM
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