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Challenge: Inanimate Macro (Advanced Editing VII*)
Camera: Canon EOS-7D
Lens: Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 USM Macro
Location: UK
Date: Nov 13, 2014
Aperture: 11.0
ISO: 3200
Shutter: 1/15
Date Uploaded: Nov 17, 2014

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My son was playing around on his iPad and I rested my teaspoon on it. The reflections on and of the spoon inspired me to experiment with forks and spoons and an iPad using different backgrounds.
Forks seemed to work better than spoons and I finally chose this background because of the two colors and the diagonal lines of the purple light, all of which looked quite good on the black background.
Unfortunately the size of the iPad screen is such that getting the fork and the reflection onto the screen whilst keeping the background black was a little tricky. I placed the iPad inside a photo tent, but struggled to get the light balance on the subject right. Putting light on it spoilt the effect, and lack of light cost me sharpness.
I ended up with three images to choose from (different backgrounds) and I am so pleased that this did well.
Thank you for commenting and for the messages after the results. I am over the moon that you enjoyed it!!

Statistics
Place: 3 out of 105
Avg (all users): 6.8091
Avg (commenters): 8.0000
Avg (participants): 6.4727
Avg (non-participants): 7.1455
Views since voting: 1393
Views during voting: 216
Votes: 110
Comments: 14
Favorites: 1 (view)

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 11/27/2014 11:01:07 AM
Congratulstions Eniko this a real nice image!
Well done!
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 11/26/2014 08:30:12 AM
Beautiful color and sharpness. Congratulations
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 11/26/2014 05:56:28 AM
Congratulations, a well deserved ribbon, many more to come!

Message edited by author 2014-11-26 10:56:51.
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 11/26/2014 04:13:35 AM
Congratulations on your first ribbon! Wonderful image.
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 11/26/2014 02:58:55 AM
Congrats; nicely done.
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 11/25/2014 08:51:21 PM
Originally posted by IreneM:
Beautiful image, eniko. It's going straight into my favorites.
Many congrats on your first ribbon and new PB.


Sorry, just corrected my spelling mistake.
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 11/25/2014 08:49:47 PM
Beautiful image, eniko. It's going straight into my favorites.
Many congrats on your first ribbon and mew PB.
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 11/25/2014 08:14:40 PM
The infinite ways of portraying silverware always amazes me. Congrats on the ribbon.
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 11/25/2014 07:47:59 PM
Great use of light, color, and reflection. I really like the light flares. Congrats on the yellow!
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
11/25/2014 04:03:48 PM
Very cool. The light is fascinating, looking forward to see what the source was.
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 11/25/2014 03:30:20 PM
Nice use of lighting and mirror! Bumping up!
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 11/19/2014 11:50:01 AM
Unusual and well executed, compositionally I wish it were a little higher to show more of the missing reflection, good luck
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 11/19/2014 05:55:13 AM
Very nice.
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 11/19/2014 03:56:32 AM
Wonderful image, the light effect and the reflection are awesome!
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