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Disc Brake
Disc Brake
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Challenge: Macro Without Bugs or Flowers II (Advanced Editing VII)
Camera: Canon EOS-40D
Lens: Sigma 150mm f/2.8 EX APO Macro EX DG HSM for Canon
Location: Seojong-Dong, Republic of Korea
Date: Apr 19, 2008
Aperture: f22
ISO: 400
Shutter: 1
Galleries: Macro, Transportation
Date Uploaded: Apr 18, 2008

 Here is a shot of the front disc brake on my mountain bike.

I tried to capture the spinning disc with the stillness of the caliper. Overall I like the image. My spousal unit says it is not something that she would hang on her wall, but I could see it hanging in a bike shop or a garage for a cyclist.

PP was pretty simple. First, my bike was upside down when I took the shot and the camera right side up so I had to rotate the canvas 180 degrees. Then I used an adjustment levels layer set to softlight and a hue/saturation layer to tone down the saturation of the red channel a bit, then I ran Nik Viveza and got rid of some of the color reflections on the balck and in the background. If you haven't played with Viveza, I highly recommend checking it out. At least go to the Nik website and look at the demo videos. I then ran Nik DFine 2.0 for noise removal, smart sharppened that and then resized the image, added the border and of course save for web.

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 Comments Made During the Challenge
04/27/2008 09:34:30 PM
I have a problem with the composition of this photo. I dont know if it's because there's too much going on, or there's nothing really that feels like it's the main object of it. I would wish you had wiped the surface, Im not sure what those white spots on it. Lastly, maybe make the colors brighter.
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 04/27/2008 03:00:45 PM
Neat looking view of a common item. Must be either new or on a babied car. It's awfully clean.
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 04/22/2008 10:34:55 PM
color jsut seems a bit flat...
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 04/21/2008 05:06:35 PM
interesting choice of subject. I have to confess I wouldn't have known wha tit was if it wasn't for the title (that's a criticism of me, not you ;-) )
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