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Challenge: Crayons & Colored Pencils (Advanced Editing VII)
Collection: Portfolio
Camera: Canon PowerShot S3 IS
Location: Oakland, California, USA
Date: Apr 11, 2009
Aperture: 3.51
ISO: 400
Shutter: 1/101
Galleries: Humorous, History
Date Uploaded: Apr 11, 2009

 Assembled from colored pencils, tape, rubber band, and a picture of a flattened-out Cheyenne child's tipi which I found on the internet, printed on a laser, and cut out.

FWIW, Isaac helped me pick out which version to use (see below for links to alternate edits).

-Handheld, Tv mode
-Open aperture to create shallow DOF and blur out background
-Noise-reduction with PictureCooler
-Dodged/cloned a couple of blurry seams and dents in the background wall
-RGB Curve
-Made masks for BG and subject areas
-RGB and Blue Curves to BG through mask
-RGB Curve to tipi and pencils through mask
-RGB Curve to tipi through mask
-Convert most the BG/tipi to duotone/sepiatone through mask
-Resize
-USM at 88%/0.8 dia/TH = 5
-Crop a little (mostly from left and top) to save file size
-SaveAs JPEG at quality 9/10 = 177KB

Alternate edits:

Statistics
Place: 73 out of 110
Avg (all users): 5.1145
Avg (commenters): 5.4444
Avg (participants): 4.8600
Avg (non-participants): 5.2241
Views since voting: 1167
Views during voting: 326
Votes: 166
Comments: 9
Favorites: 0

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 Comments Made During the Challenge
04/19/2009 10:23:44 PM
Creative shot
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 04/19/2009 07:51:14 PM
lol took me a sec to figure this one out. fun idea, certainly unique to the challenge
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 04/15/2009 10:07:21 AM
I like the idea; the pencils don't look as sharp and in focus as I would think they should be.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 04/14/2009 12:31:31 PM
to me this looks very cut n pasted...something is off...
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 04/14/2009 11:12:42 AM
Neat shot. Colors are great and so's the background.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 04/14/2009 08:57:45 AM
The layering could've been done a little better IMO.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 04/13/2009 04:00:53 PM
The image meets the subject matter dead on. A sound demonstration of the creative process in meeting the challenge in a very unusual way. A couple of minor detail problems as the image appears to be over sharpened, but that may be a lighting artifact. The DOF could have been used more effectively. A good solid entry into the challenge.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 04/13/2009 10:26:48 AM
I don't think I get this. What are they jumping out of? Is it a quiver? It feels overly processed to me, nothing seems quite real.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 04/13/2009 02:13:15 AM
Lol fun picture. What did you use for the tent part? The tent does seem a little out of focus however. Maybe its just the material used?
  Photographer found comment helpful.


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