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Can't build stuff without numbers & math!
Can't build stuff without numbers & math!
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Challenge: Mathematics (Advanced Editing VII)
Collection: 2008
Camera: Sony DSLR-A700
Lens: Sigma 28-70mm f/2.8 EX DG for Minolta
Location: Virginia
Date: Aug 16, 2008
Aperture: F22
ISO: 200
Shutter: 3s
Galleries: Still Life, Black and White
Date Uploaded: Aug 17, 2008

PSP X2
- crop
- sp fix (0,5,-10,0,68,14,10) b/w pts
- select orange paper - layer
- clar +20, hsl (ylw h-> 26)
- sp fix blk pt +30
- clone couple of small lines/marks out
- merge down
- nik: Old Photo B&W (5,0,40)
- resize
- color temp 4700
- duplicate layer
- levels (0,112,245)
- duplicate layer, multiply mode, 30% opacity
- merge all (flatten)
- duplicate layer
- usm (.35,100,10) +luminance
- selectively erase areas (tape measure, etc...) that usm was too much for.
- merge all (flatten)
- borders
- save as JPG

Went with B/W because the lower left paper was yellow, the bottom right was orange (color shifted to yellow prior to b/w), the tape measure was yellow, and the wood has a natural light yellow...

Originally planned an entirely different approach, doing something outside, but the weather didn't cooperate. Oh well, hope this still life does "ok". :-)

It's amazing how much math is used in woodworking, most of it simple math, but a good exercise in fractions when the kids come out to "help" or to build something of their own.

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 Comments Made During the Challenge
08/23/2008 07:01:22 PM
Nicely composed. Not sure about the slight red cast.
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08/23/2008 05:23:33 PM
Good idea, just a little to blown out for my taste
  Photographer found comment helpful.
08/18/2008 01:45:36 PM
Nice idea. I wish the tape measure was another colour though, so that it stood out more against the paper background.
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08/18/2008 12:33:33 AM
a bit more contrast would be nice
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