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1cm Cleaner on a bottle
1cm Cleaner on a bottle
nicoengelbrecht


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Challenge: Dolls & Puppets (Basic Editing)
Camera: Canon EOS-5D
Lens: Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 USM Macro
Location: The office
Date: Sep 2, 2008
Aperture: 2.8
ISO: 50
Shutter: 125
Galleries: Abstract, Macro
Date Uploaded: Sep 2, 2008

I saw a small "cleaning lady" micro doll (she is about 1cm tall) on a desk in my office and thought that she was crying out to be entered. Somehow she found herself atop an old bottle top.

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09/15/2008 06:14:20 PM
Critique Club Review

Color Saturation and Hue: Colors are vivid, saturation is appropriate for the subject, hues are natural.

Brightness and contrast: Image could be a little brighter, contrast is good as the blacks are nice and dark. Lighting is flat though.

Focus and depth of field: Depth of field is too shallow. The washer or seal under the stopper is nice and sharp. The figure appears soft at the head, and the rest of the image is soft. A smaller aperature would make the depth of field deeper.

The wire assembly for opening and closing the bottle really compete with the subject. For this view, the doll really has to be lazer sharp. Lighting from the side could help add relief and apparent sharpness to the doll. Although the area is small, perhaps a small flashlight, torch, or whatever they call them where you live, could be used to form a small spotlight to draw attention to the doll.

Another approach might be to pull back further yet, and sort of do a play on the whole angels dancing on the head of a pin thing.

Interesting picture, I've never seen a doll this small.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
09/06/2008 11:55:23 AM
Shallow depth of field with macro can be a pain and this picture suffers a bit because of that. Nice idea but maybe a different perspective might have worked better?
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09/06/2008 08:32:05 AM
Really good composition to scale the doll....wish it was a tad sharper.
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09/04/2008 03:28:12 PM
Good DOF.
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09/04/2008 08:53:13 AM
A decent enough shot, just lacked averall appeal to me.
09/03/2008 12:52:01 AM
1cm, you say? Wow.
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