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Challenge: Miniature (Basic Editing I)
Camera: Canon EOS-10D
Location: Home
Date: Aug 3, 2004
Aperture: F9.5
ISO: 100
Shutter: 2 sec
Galleries: Sports, Studio
Date Uploaded: Aug 3, 2004

 It's a McFarlane Toys' Major League Baseball action figure featuring Todd Helton of the Colorado Rockies.

Helton here is less than 6 inches tall and the ball is a regulation-size baseball.

The hardest part in this shot is keeping the ball between Helton's arms. I kept it in place using duct tape but because of it's weight it kept coming down.

Raw mode. One desk lamp on the left and bounced light off a big letter size white bond paper on the right aiming for Helton's face. I used a green poster board for background and avoided the light sources to hit it directly. Just enough for the green to show but not to overwhelm the background.

Post processing:

adjusted shadow/highlight, levels, colors.
lighting effects used to uneven the lighting.
crop
resize
neat image
usm
border

Canon 50mm 1.8



Statistics
Place: 21 out of 240
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Avg (commenters): 7.5556
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Votes: 260
Comments: 11
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
08/09/2004 06:52:33 PM
The lighting on this is great, and the wee figure/model is wonderfully detailed, well done on both counts if you made the model!
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 08/07/2004 10:21:48 AM
I really like this one... good lighting and I like the shadows. Excellent execution of a good idea!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 08/05/2004 09:38:44 PM
Fantastic!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 08/05/2004 01:09:32 PM
I thought about doing something like this again. Hope this does well for you... it's a great picture.
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 08/04/2004 11:43:11 PM
great shot. I would have preferred a bit more light across the entire figure.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 08/04/2004 11:38:09 PM
Ho do you do this?
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 08/04/2004 08:57:46 PM
Did you get a teeny tiny autograph? Cool picture.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 08/04/2004 11:26:51 AM
that's quite a real-looking man.... nicely lit.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 08/04/2004 08:42:14 AM
very clever
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 08/04/2004 08:16:46 AM
Too dark along bottom. Good otherwise.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 08/04/2004 01:52:43 AM
Great ball!
  Photographer found comment helpful.


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