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Challenge: Mirrors II (Basic Editing)
Camera: Canon PowerShot A520
Location: Room
Date: Nov 4, 2008
Galleries: Digital Art
Date Uploaded: Nov 4, 2008

First challenge ever here. Looking for a better camera in the future. Any critism,tip are welcome.

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Place: 129 out of 133
Avg (all users): 3.2419
Avg (commenters): 2.8571
Avg (participants): 3.4255
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Views since voting: 709
Views during voting: 323
Votes: 186
Comments: 9
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11/12/2008 01:27:42 AM
Per your request a couple of tips:

-I think your A520 has some manual controls, including aperture priority. For a shot like this in low light use a low ISO on a tripod, to allow for a slow shutter speed without camera shake.

-Some basic image adjustments will help as well. I would suggest the most basic as being levels, curves, saturation and sharpening. Levels is the first and most important, IMO.

-On the compression thing. Most photo editors will have the compression settings in the file save dialog somewhere. If you need a good and free photo editor, with many of the features of the big names, I like to recommend paint.net

-The shot itself just does not have much to it. I would describe it as deadpan. Maybe a tilt, or something colorful reflected in the mirror?

Oh, and congrats on your first ribbon, even if it's the brown. I've got one as well.

Message edited by author 2008-11-12 09:33:45.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
11/06/2008 09:23:12 PM
Lighting would be better with a fill light so that the shadow wasn't behind the mirror. Cool mirror. So much space above it and yet the bottom is cut off, I would prefer it if the bottom wasn't cut off. You did a nice job of keeping the reflective surface black.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
11/05/2008 09:12:39 PM
The quality of the photo is very bad
11/05/2008 07:57:59 PM
might benefit from a reframing... off center? and it's out of focus.
11/05/2008 06:06:43 PM
This image is boring, and lacks focus, and has poor lighting, 6.
11/05/2008 03:23:55 PM
I don't like the shadow done by the flash and the thing that the mirror is black. A reflection in that mirror would have improved the picture.
11/05/2008 03:40:25 AM
Out of focus
11/05/2008 01:36:15 AM
I'm afraid this one is going to be a brown contender. The lighting is pretty poor, there appears to be some blur from camera shake, and I think you used excessive compression on this.
11/05/2008 01:33:38 AM
Focus is not sharp and lacks interest


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