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take off your cloves
take off your cloves
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Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Light on White IV (Advanced Editing VII)
Collection: Subjects
Camera: Canon EOS-350D Rebel XT
Lens: Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 USM Macro
Location: Tranquility, NJ
Date: Mar 1, 2009
Aperture: 8
ISO: 100
Shutter: .6
Galleries: Portraiture, Food and Drink
Date Uploaded: Mar 1, 2009

 I worked so hard on this. First, I put the garlic on a white box. Very creative! I used a floor lamp, plus a hand that I hel in my hand to paint with light. I put my sexy macro lens on the tripod and took the picture.

Now for PP. I used a gradient layer to make it really bright and make the white background really white. Then I masked the gradient layer where the onion was, so the onion would be darker (look at the edge of the onion to see how tricky that might be). Hue/sat and selective color made the onion brighter and less yellow. Then I resized and sharpened, only to see some noise and gradients in the shadows. So now I had to mask out the sharpening! I was still seeing some "rings" in one of the shadows, so I used water blur to smoothe that out. Now I'm exhausted. Just leave my ribbon on the coffee table. I'm going to take a snooze.

I should really call this picture, "Addicted to Six."

Don't worry, I'll get it over it real soon.

I know it's pointless to look at a piece of garlic, but there's something to be said about putting so much attention into displaying something properly, giving it the showcase it deserves. It's an act of caring. There is art to this.

===post challenge=====

i'm keeping my typos above as a tribute to my advancing age. thanks to eyewave for what is to him high praise.

Statistics
Place: 32 out of 178
Avg (all users): 5.9848
Avg (commenters): 7.0000
Avg (participants): 5.7742
Avg (non-participants): 6.1714
Views since voting: 1277
Views during voting: 236
Votes: 132
Comments: 13
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 03/15/2009 02:42:35 PM
Critique Club Review:

Color Saturation and Hue: Very well done. Nothing is over saturated, and hues are appropriate for the subject, and in this case the challenge.

Brightness and contrast: Nice clean white background. The details hold well throughout, with just a hint of burnout at the highlight at the upper middle of the head of garlic.

Focus and depth of field: Focus is razor sharp, and depth of field is excellent.

Composition: The centered composition works well here. To do a rule of thirds, would have resulted in an image that was done that way than for no other reason than the rule of thirds is one of the first things taught. The almost square format, works well here also.

Subjective: The (mildew?) stains on the garlic distract a bit. I like all the detail, yet at the same time the eye has a hard time figuring out a place in which to rest. I'm wondering how a little softer focus, or perhaps a bit of glow would have worked. Maybe even a little bit of revealed garlic clove down in the right side...

Overall a very well done image, that well deserves its place in the top 40.
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 03/09/2009 05:00:04 AM
Don, what happened? Your pictures are so commercial lately....
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 03/09/2009 01:07:30 AM
LOL! I'm envious - you have a white box. And you apparently have the ability to paint with light using your hand. (Actually, that's not all that suprising.) Very nice for the challenge, got a Chromey, JUST missed that 6 (nasty vote scrubber!). A very nice clove of garlic, but I prefer your onion, the one not sitting in a perfectly lovely plain white background.
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 03/09/2009 12:38:32 AM
Just the right amount of decolletage. Particularly sexy is that area of filmy skin, upper left.
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 03/09/2009 12:27:35 AM
PostLuminous Award Nominee!
a great approach to the challenge: something that looks Real and still meets the challenge them.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
03/08/2009 09:54:52 PM
More even lighting might have helped.
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 03/08/2009 02:20:17 PM
Like the capture and the title. Brings everything together nicely.
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 03/06/2009 10:37:53 PM
Great detail.
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 03/03/2009 02:04:00 AM
Wonderful texture, great lighting.
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 03/02/2009 11:49:49 AM
Great detail and lovely lighting - I would like a poster of that in my kitchen...
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 03/02/2009 11:27:29 AM
Haha, I love the title and I think this works really well for the challenge. Normally I'm not a fan of shadows like that, but I think it helps to define the shape of the subject here.
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 03/02/2009 09:09:07 AM
Not voting-just a comment, I love your title here! This really took my eye. Great clear shot too!
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 03/02/2009 01:15:59 AM
Beautiful shot. Garlic is such a photogenic subject! Nice transparency and detail. Love the shadows.
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