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Tiny Vase
Tiny Vase
Judith Polakoff


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Challenge: Macro Without Bugs or Flowers (Basic Editing I)
Camera: Nikon D70
Location: My dining room
Date: Nov 6, 2004
Aperture: F/8
ISO: 250
Shutter: 1/250 sec.
Galleries: Still Life, Macro
Date Uploaded: Nov 7, 2004

 This really is not a macro shot, strictly speaking, but rather as close a close-up shot as my camera is capable of without a macro lens.

Made lots of raw adjustments to curves and levels, minor adjustment to white balance, then cropped and applied soft focus several times via Gaussian blur.

Statistics
Place: 225 out of 528
Avg (all users): 5.0389
Avg (commenters): 6.2500
Avg (participants): 5.0050
Avg (non-participants): 5.0902
Views since voting: 751
Views during voting: 438
Votes: 334
Comments: 10
Favorites: 0

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 Comments Made During the Challenge
11/13/2004 11:50:14 AM
Really lovely shot. In my opinion, could have been a contender if somehow you had communicated the vase's small size within the photo instead of only in the title. Good luck, this may ribbon yet!
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 11/13/2004 02:27:35 AM
I really like the softness.
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 11/12/2004 09:59:13 PM
Soft focus gives this a nice wistful look and is in keeping with the subject.
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 11/11/2004 08:35:40 AM
good lighting and color effect
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 11/10/2004 12:47:17 PM
Good amount of Light and nice frame
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 11/10/2004 12:37:49 PM
Wonderful light, neat and subdues sense of soft focus suits the subject quite well. Whilst I'm certain it is a macro, it has little of the appearance of one, nor of an extreme close-up; there is little sense of scale, and I have a problem with that for this challenge. But it's a sweet shot. 6
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 11/10/2004 09:42:13 AM
The soft focus works well, and the image is appealing overall, but it's not really a macro or closeup.
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 11/10/2004 09:12:28 AM
It may be not perfect, but unlike 90% of the shots in this challenge it makes sense. Something is not right with the composition though, something bugs my eyes, but i can't explain what.
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 11/10/2004 03:22:41 AM
Good call on using the soft filter to get that soft focus look, it makes the image stronger. However I don´t really think this is a macro but I still gave it a 7.
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 11/10/2004 02:32:10 AM
I like the colors and the textures but wish the lighting was brighter, can't really see much detail in the background
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