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Red Corn, White Cob
Red Corn, White Cob
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Challenge: High Key (Advanced Editing VII)
Collection: Portfolio
Camera: Canon PowerShot S3 IS
Location: Oakland, California, USA
Date: Sep 16, 2010
Aperture: 8.00
ISO: 80
Shutter: 1/501
Galleries: Food and Drink, Science and Technology
Date Uploaded: Sep 17, 2010

 Cross-section of some unusual corn I got the other day, on some cheesecloth. I know yellow or white corn would make for an even more high-key effect, but I thought this was more interesting, and I think the histogram shows a sufficient weighting towards the light end to "qualify" for this category.



I worked with different flash strengths and shooting distances to find a combination with gave me enough light while retaining substantial detail in the cob structure and the cloth mesh.

-Handheld, manual mode
-Macro mode
-Flash
-RGB Curve
-Blue/Yellow Curve
-Made mask for background area
-RGB Curve through mask
-Blue/Yellow Curve through mask
-Crop
-Resize
-USM at 88%/0.8 dia/TH = 5 (applied twice)
-Add 4-pixel black border
-SaveAs JPEG at quality 8/10 = 230KB

File: Corn_IMG_5463b-DPCb8.jpg

Alternate version (no border):

Statistics
Place: 76 out of 97
Avg (all users): 4.9173
Avg (commenters): 6.0000
Avg (participants): 4.6591
Avg (non-participants): 5.0449
Views since voting: 1147
Views during voting: 287
Votes: 133
Comments: 6
Favorites: 0

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AuthorThread
 09/27/2010 11:22:42 AM
Such a marvelous image! What's it doing down here!!!
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 09/27/2010 12:44:18 AM
Wow what a wrong score. I gave this a 7. I thought the subject was interesting and that you also did a good job with capturing the detail. I guess I know nothing about high key lol.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 09/27/2010 12:14:33 AM
This was something different, interesting and definitely high key. Deserved better.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
09/23/2010 12:08:39 PM
interesting
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 09/20/2010 09:28:45 PM
goog use of color and the detail in the background.....6
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 09/20/2010 05:18:47 AM
Ewww! Looks like a bunch of pulled teeth!
  Photographer found comment helpful.


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