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Levitating Squares
Levitating Squares
robinegg


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Challenge: Square II (Basic Editing)
Camera: Nikon D700
Lens: Nikon AF Nikkor 50mm f/1.4D
Location: Los Angeles
Date: Aug 4, 2009
Aperture: 1.8
ISO: 1000
Shutter: 1/50
Date Uploaded: Aug 4, 2009

I've been thinking about this shot all week and while I would have liked the cube in better focus I waited until the last minute and didn't have time to reshoot. Plus, my hand model (husband) was hungry for dinner. The rubik's cube is actually sitting on a tall skinny vase, set on it's corner into the small opening at the top. I wanted a body behind it but couldn't think of a set up that wouldn't require clone tool. I added the lights on the ground to make it look more magical as if it were floating

Crop, Levels, Curves, USM, Save for Web.

Statistics
Place: 12 out of 67
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Votes: 186
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08/13/2009 05:08:47 AM
Critique Club

Hi Robin :)

First impressions
A dynamic, colourful image.

After some time with the image
You've created an image full of magic that fits in well with the theme, the set up and composition are good. Whilst the lights do add a great deal to the image I can see that all those circles within the confines of a square challenge could have lost you a few points. You mention focus, specifically the cube, it's difficult to tell but with the image at this size the focus seems fine and any drop off in sharpness is probably due to the small depth of field that you would have got with an aperture of f1.8.
A commenter mentioned the blurry hand and that is probably more of an issue, motion blur would have been fine but this looks like movement blur of a hungry husband expected to keep still for 1/50sec ;)

Overall
A creative image that has worked well, you were constrained by time and the prospect of basic editing, so you can only improve on this already good image.
:)
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
08/10/2009 05:44:32 PM
Nice link to the theme.
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08/07/2009 09:50:39 PM
Nice one, good clarity, 9.
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08/05/2009 02:32:55 PM
The rubics cube show the challenge but the circles of light in the back take away from it.
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08/05/2009 01:02:39 AM
Great idea. It's a shame the lower hand is a bit blurry.
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