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Challenge: October Free Study (Advanced Editing II)
Camera: Olympus C-5050Z
Location: Den
Date: Oct 17, 2004
Aperture: 7.0
ISO: 64
Shutter: 1/25
Date Uploaded: Oct 30, 2004

 Wine glasses partially filled with water for the been done before inversion - but with a little twist in the center glass. I'm expecting complaints that the glasses are offset relative to the white/black background, but they have to be to get the effect in the center glass (at least they had to be for me). With the glasses centered on the line, the pattern was plain ugly, and very uneven.

Post processed by desaturating, selecting black and white points to darken the blacks and make the whites whiter (probably overdone, but lighting wasn't great so I had too to get the whites white). Cloned out some dust/specs on my background, and the occasional odd reflection on the wine glasses, and some other things like bright spots at the water line.

Statistics
Place: 53 out of 487
Avg (all users): 6.3699
Avg (commenters): 7.6316
Avg (participants): 6.3871
Avg (non-participants): 6.2414
Views since voting: 1195
Views during voting: 377
Votes: 246
Comments: 23
Favorites: 1 (view)

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 12/19/2007 07:33:53 PM
Wow, this is beautiful. I really appreciate your taking a different approach. Makes me want to sit down and start looking through different combinations of glasses. :)
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 11/12/2004 05:26:51 AM
Critique Club

Excellent image. Of course it meets the challenge and very well done I might add. The only problem I see with the entire image is the lighting in the black portion of your background. There is an area where the lighting is much stronger than the rest of the image and it does distract slightly from the entire composition. A little touching up there and you will have not just an excellent image but a fantastic image.

Anna
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
11/07/2004 03:48:34 PM
not quite centered. I can't decide if that's good or bad. Would like to see a centered one to compare. Good BW.
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 11/07/2004 12:19:38 PM
you can't go wrong with wine glasses and 2 sheets of paper huh? good placement of the center glass, the "eyes" work.
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 11/07/2004 12:14:42 PM
Wow, neat photo!
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 11/07/2004 08:25:51 AM
I agree... very elegant. I love the pattern in the center glass
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 11/07/2004 03:58:30 AM
Beautiful. Great spin on a time-tested DPC theme. Very well done.
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 11/06/2004 12:17:22 PM
Two very simillar entries. That is bizzare... I like both of them. I hope none will suffer because of this coincidence. Good luck!
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 11/06/2004 05:28:20 AM
Very nice variation on a familiar theme, extremely well executed. Not sure whether I would have preferred color, the B&W emphasises the shapes.
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 11/06/2004 01:51:55 AM
Great update on an old theme. Really masterful control of the light.
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 11/05/2004 02:17:43 PM
Beautiful in b&w. Not to knock your friend (I assume your friend as the two wine glass shots are very similar) but I prefer your b&w version better. I gave you both 9's though. Nice placement. Well done.
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 11/04/2004 05:40:30 PM
another great use of refraction
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 11/04/2004 06:35:42 AM
Very nice.
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 11/03/2004 05:39:04 PM
For an idea that is way overdone, this is a nice photo. Just a bit too contrasty; the light areas are too burned out and the dark areas are losing detail.
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 11/03/2004 09:41:03 AM
very nicely done - especially the center pattern is neat !!
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 11/03/2004 07:56:13 AM
i wish there was a little more contrasr but i like your idea and i think that composition is just perfect
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 11/03/2004 04:54:36 AM
Hmmmm I wonder why you converted to color.
Looks great, would like to see the color version.
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 11/03/2004 04:42:33 AM
Elegant and very precise - does it need more contrast of did you want it slightly grey? I think I like it grey - the diamond shape in the middle is my favot=rite.
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 11/02/2004 06:23:39 PM
Very interesting, creative and different.
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 11/02/2004 02:32:59 PM
great idea
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 11/02/2004 01:23:23 PM
Excellent composition...tremendous tone and contrast quality...beautiful work...very creative...
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 11/02/2004 10:06:28 AM
Wow - didn't think this could be done again and still be so compelling. Fascinating shapes you captured.
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 11/01/2004 07:34:08 AM
Nicely done
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