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Carbon is a Girl's Best Friend
Carbon is a Girl's Best Friend
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Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Periodic Table (Advanced Editing VII*)
Camera: Pentax K10D
Lens: Pentax DA 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 AF
Location: my yard
Date: Nov 9, 2008
Aperture: f/4.5
ISO: 400
Shutter: 1/10 sec
Galleries: Fashion
Date Uploaded: Nov 9, 2008

Adapted from song Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend of course, from the 1953 film Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.

Yes, diamonds are carbon, just like that tree... just a few million years older.

pp: levels, contrast, hue/sat, warming filter, crop, flatten, usm, resize and s4web

Statistics
Place: 85 out of 102
Avg (all users): 4.9747
Avg (commenters): 5.0000
Avg (participants): 4.6591
Avg (non-participants): 5.0965
Views since voting: 760
Views during voting: 299
Votes: 158
Comments: 6
Favorites: 0


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 Comments Made During the Challenge
11/15/2008 11:58:04 PM
Nice concept here, but it seems a tad underexposed. Maybe it just needs a bit of ontrast.
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11/14/2008 08:41:45 PM
Nice DOF!
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11/12/2008 05:08:29 PM
I thought this was kind of a cool, abstract way of looking at carbon. I like your originality.
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11/12/2008 04:08:34 PM
The only things that is in focus here is the ring and it is dead center... Not appealing to me but may be to other. I understand the idea and that you wanted to put focus on the challenge topic but it just doesn't look very good as is.

As much as I like the hand (it is a very nice looking hand! :)) I would have maybe opted to put the ring on a branch on the tree and tried to make it interesting. I know - maybe a bad idea but I just don't like this with the hand in it.
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11/11/2008 09:05:39 PM
I'd like to see this with either more or less of her hand in the frame. As it is with the tips amputated, the crop just doesn't seem right. I do like the processing to make the ring stand out from everything else in the image.
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11/11/2008 04:42:30 PM
Very nice stock shot look, which always goes over well in DPC, pretty rings too and lovely hand to model it.
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