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Challenge: Shoes II (Advanced Editing VII)
Camera: Nikon D200
Lens: Sigma 18-200mm f/3.5-6.3 DC OS for Nikon
Location: Philadelphia, PA
Date: Feb 21, 2010
Aperture: f/ 16
ISO: 125
Shutter: 1/13 sec.
Galleries: Still Life, Advertisement
Date Uploaded: Feb 21, 2010

 You know sometimes when you have some money you buy something on impulse that maybe you wish you hadn't bought? These would be one of those purchases. They actually feel great on my feet but they just got too difficult to explain to every other person that I passed by. So I wore for a while and have kept them because they were SO expensive I couldn't justify tossing them out. The store is long gone. Not sure if the company even exists any more. I call them the Tucker of shoes. Great concept but they don't look so good. The tried to make some covers for the springs and it didn't quite work. Oh well.

I set a piece of white poster board in my shooting area, got down on my back and put my feet in front of the board. The camera was on the tripod and I used the cable remote release.


Post:
Camera raw adjustments in PSElements 6.0.
Rotate 180°.
4 crops.
Layer adjustments for levels, brightness/contrast and hue/saturation.
Adjust sharpness.
Selected background and did two layers of levels resetting the white point each time.
Selected inverse, colors curves adjustment.
Resize.
USM.

Hoping for better than a 5.2281 in Shoes I.

Just looked them up on the web and they are still around. Here is the link: Z Coil

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 03/01/2010 09:21:51 PM
Oh yes, they are still made.....check where nurse stuff is sold. I love mine.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
02/28/2010 02:42:08 PM
z-coil....funny title....9
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 02/26/2010 03:35:42 PM
cute
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 02/23/2010 06:37:16 PM
nice colours, i was wondering though, what the yellowy object in the bottom left corner was? it certainly doesnt take away from the picture though. very nice shot!
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 02/23/2010 02:09:12 AM
People may punish you for that yellow thing at the bottom. I really like this shot and its composition. Maybe more saturation on those colors would be nice! Good luck!
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 02/22/2010 07:30:13 PM
very good--? crop out the spot in the lower left
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 02/22/2010 01:27:01 PM
Shame about the little spot at the base of the photograph. Those are funny shoes.
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 02/22/2010 09:03:20 AM
Good capture and a nice idea. A little bit of flare from the background has washed out the black of the shoes which make them lose some 'punch'.
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