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The wheel which makes the world go 'round
The wheel which makes the world go 'round
carlos


Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Wheels (Basic Editing I)
Camera: Fujifilm FinePix S5000 Z
Location: On my desk
Date: Mar 31, 2004
Aperture: f/6.3
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/600 s.
Galleries: Macro
Date Uploaded: Apr 1, 2004

 Fiddling around whith the camera's macro just to check how close it could go out came this one.

Ligthning is just my desk's low power fluorescent lamp. Actually don't know where the golden tone came from, the coin is silver colored and sligthly golden in the outer ring. The background itself was a piece of... white paper!

Editing: Sligth rotation, crop, resize and border added, Neatimage and USM.


Statistics
Place: 181 out of 283
Avg (all users): 4.9102
Avg (commenters): 5.2667
Avg (participants): 4.7281
Avg (non-participants): 5.0563
Views since voting: 1043
Votes: 256
Comments: 17
Favorites: 1 (view)

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AuthorThread
 04/14/2004 06:16:02 PM
Thank you to everyone who spent his time comenting on the pic. You have been useful indeed!

Maybe you cannot call it a wheel, but haven't you seen any of these rolling down to its hidden place?. I wasn't either trying to start a discussion about if it's euro, dollar or whichever currency you happen to use, I just borrowed from Cabaret's song "Money makes the world..."

On the other hand, you cannot lay the blame on me about being unoriginal just because it's a coin. Sure, there are lots of nickes and dimes around but... it's the first EURO coin portrait here at DPC, AFAIK!! :-DDD
 Comments Made During the Challenge
04/13/2004 09:38:36 PM
I did the oposite meaning of this pic :D nice choise of bacground and good lightning but maybe it could be litlibit more sharpened. 9+
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 04/13/2004 10:52:53 AM
I think wheels should have a point of axis. Don't see one here. I get the metaphor, and the picture is well composed/framed. The coin looks a little soft though. I especially like the gradient of brown across the image.
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 04/11/2004 02:35:49 AM
This is a very good idea, also the light conditions are working, but the composition does not ... I think I would have dead centered this one. I have to admit difficult decision. Yours, Jan
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 04/11/2004 01:42:00 AM
I am not sure I would call it a wheel, but it could spin, so I will go with it. I like the blending of the tones very much. A less used coin might of worked better, but I am not sure.
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 04/10/2004 10:23:37 PM
I think it's the dollar actually... but still..........
nice title, nice macro shot; very nice colours!
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 04/10/2004 11:38:17 AM
Nice color and lighting. The background breaks up a bit on my monitor. I won't dun you for it being a coin, but I do take exception to the title--just don't think the Euro has yet gained the status of the economic force you imply. Still, it's a nice shot. If I'd chosen this subject for the competition, I would have stood it on edge--but that's my vision, not yours.....
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 04/08/2004 10:23:51 PM
I'm givin' the benefit of a doubt on this one. Nice tones. What did ya use for a background?
TC
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 04/08/2004 05:08:35 PM
not in the USA
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 04/08/2004 04:38:59 PM
Great picture and I like the way your title tries to tie in your picture with the challenge, but it doesn't really fit the "Wheel" challenge. But I will give you 5 because this is a great picture.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 04/08/2004 11:19:37 AM
AAAAAAAAAArgh.... No, this is too much !!!! Don't start now the nickels and dimes macro style photos with euros.... C'mon this is SO KITSCH !!!!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 04/08/2004 08:44:57 AM
Nice shot but a coin is not what i cooncider to be a wheel hence low score of 1
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 04/07/2004 10:54:33 PM
this is not a wheel~
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 04/07/2004 01:52:18 PM
The fact that it's a used coin, and not a mint condition proof makes the shot
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 04/07/2004 11:18:40 AM
round yes. not particularly wheel like
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 04/07/2004 04:03:11 AM
It's round, but I don't see this as a wheel, sorry.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 04/07/2004 12:23:26 AM
Yes, creative, original, and well done (but it sure looks like it has been cooked in PS); otherwise, you did a nice job with the lighting for this one.
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