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Casino Candy Case
Casino Candy Case
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Challenge: Sugar (Advanced Editing VII)
Camera: Canon PowerShot A620
Location: Las Vegas, NV, USA
Date: Jul 16, 2008
Aperture: f/2.8
ISO: 400
Shutter: 1/40
Galleries: Still Life, Food and Drink
Date Uploaded: Jul 19, 2008

 Shot hand-held at night at a rather scratched glass candy display in a casino.

Lots of speck/scratch removal. Then tried (for the first time) the Urban Acid Photoshop action, which gives a very different look than my usual fare. I'm trying to branch out beyond my typical (and boring) landscapes and plant/nature shots.

Adjusted levels and fiddled with various sharpening techniques. Can't remember which one I settled on.

Resized to 720 pixels, Sharpen More, save for web.

Most difficult part of shooting this was not salivating on the glass :-).

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 Comments Made During the Challenge
07/27/2008 11:24:24 PM
I wonder how much it would cost to try one of everything ...
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 07/27/2008 09:55:15 PM
love the color in this shot
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 07/26/2008 06:56:34 PM
Last challenge I would have expected to see a cross-processed, "urban acid" technique.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 07/23/2008 08:05:08 PM
That colour cast is awful.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 07/21/2008 01:30:17 AM
I don't think I could come up with a lighting situation that's much more challenging than this.

The candy case is completely lit from florescent lights in the back, and there's a sheet of glass reflecting lights from slot machines on the front. A single exposure long enough to properly expose the broad side of the candies will completely blow out the short side because there's too much contrast between what's lit and what's in shadows. Even thought the human eye can deal with this, digital cameras can't without lots of work on your part. You picked a happy medium on exposure, ended up with candies completely hidden in shadows, and other candies with all detail blown out in highlights. Overall the whole thing was underexposed, so you fixed it up the best you could in photoshop (and that's where you got all the color noise).

I think with a tripod to make several long exposures and a polarizing filter you could put together a HDR image that could get around the technical problems without having to bring in more lights -- not that anyone besides you would appreciate it. This composition just doesn't have much of an impact.
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 07/21/2008 12:14:42 AM
The lighting seems really harsh here. Too harsh for my tastes.

Evan
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