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Challenge: Minimalism (Basic Editing III)
Collection: Portfolio
Camera: Olympus D-490Z
Location: Oakland, California, USA
Date: Apr 23, 2005
Aperture: 2.8
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/80
Date Uploaded: Apr 23, 2005

 Isaac and I had put together this puzzle my dad gave us some time ago, but there was this one piece missing. I finally found it.

NOTE: This is a "prop" and not "artwork" : )

Shot with sunlight from a window on the left, handheld. If this was Advanced Editing I'd have used a gradient mask like a neutral density filter to lighten the right side, but as it is it's still a little darker over there than I'd like, and there's a bit of glare on the left, which actually shows more in the thumbnail.

-Cropped, slight rotation
-RGB Curve
-USM at 32%/64 dia/TH=0
-USM at 88%/0.8 dia/TH=5
-Save as JPEG = 5/10

Statistics
Place: 458 out of 492
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Avg (commenters): 4.2500
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Views since voting: 963
Views during voting: 463
Votes: 350
Comments: 36
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 05/04/2005 05:47:40 AM
Originally posted by shareinnc:
The idea is a good one, but the puzzle is so busy it took me a full minute to figure out where the last piece was going to go.

Actually, the missing piece was really the original subject; that small hole in the big picture. Maybe I should have left the piece out altogether.

As mentioned in the notes, I has strong lighting from a window. In an Advanced Editing challenge I would fix the tone with a gradient mask (similar to having used a graduated ND filter on the camera), but with Basic Rules I couldn't do that.

Thanks for all the comments and suggestions!
 Comments Made During the Challenge
05/03/2005 07:10:06 PM
Doesn't seem very minimalistic. 4
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 05/03/2005 08:39:33 AM
Nice idea. IMO, the lighting could use a little work. The left is a little too bright and the right is a little too dark (where your focal piece is).
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 05/03/2005 03:54:50 AM
The strong point is not the missing piece.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 05/02/2005 09:51:49 PM
This image is very busy, particularly given the challenge topic. Minimalism would have been better achieved by showing a single puzzle piece.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 05/02/2005 06:05:09 PM
Not close to minimalism imo.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 05/02/2005 03:03:44 PM
;) took me few seconds to find the place for the missing piece, nice idea but not very interesting picture
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 04/30/2005 04:12:16 PM
Very good idea, however it just seems that the whole picture itself is the poster. Maybe if you included a better angle and some drama like a hand picking up the piece, it would have been a higher scoring picture
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 04/30/2005 01:01:27 PM
VERY nice concept and good overall picture. but i will offer my comments and ideas:
i think that the lower left of the picture is somewhat overexposed and lets me know exactly where your light source was =) another part of the photo that i may improve on is the overall composure of the shot. part of the challange states that the subject (the final piece) must be the strong point of the picture. in the case of this photo (as well as many others in this challange) my eyes feel distracted and lose concentration on the subject. to fix this i may have tried this shot in B&W, or held the camera closer to the puzzle piece and used a shallow DOF and had the rest of the puzzle in the background.

just my opinion though GL......7
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 04/30/2005 10:59:11 AM
The idea is a good one, but the puzzle is so busy it took me a full minute to figure out where the last piece was going to go.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 04/29/2005 07:24:17 PM
I see where you're coming from, but I think this is a little too "busy."
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 04/29/2005 02:45:17 PM
Smaller would added.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 04/29/2005 01:38:39 PM
very very interesting concept.....the only thing i could add is that the west coast is having much more sun than the east....and being an east coast girl....well i would like it to be more even
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 04/29/2005 12:32:00 PM
too busy for my taste.. But a good effort.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 04/29/2005 06:28:46 AM
interesting use of theme
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 04/28/2005 10:47:45 PM
it's a small subject, but does not catch the eye as a compositional center
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 04/28/2005 09:35:57 PM
A very nice idea, but not enough draws the eye to the final piece, other than the title. I would have suggested shooting from one side, going for a very narrow depth of field, to bring that piece into sharper focus, and the rest of the puzzle blurring out. Also, the left side seems a bit too bright, and glares somewhat.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 04/28/2005 08:43:57 PM
not minimalism
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 04/28/2005 06:13:14 PM
GOOD IDEA!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 04/28/2005 02:05:02 PM
The idea is great, but the lighting could be better...the right side is too dark. Nice shot.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 04/28/2005 12:28:55 PM
This type of shot always exposes the lenses barrel distortion.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 04/28/2005 10:01:46 AM
nice idea, but I dont think it turned out just like you hoped.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 04/28/2005 07:58:17 AM
I like this idea! worked well for this challenge.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 04/28/2005 12:29:52 AM
well done that looks a hard one to do it looks very complicated for a minimalistic image
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 04/27/2005 11:06:41 PM
Very busy.
TC
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 04/27/2005 07:59:50 PM
I really like the concept but I don't think the photo does enough to make the puzzle piece the center of focus. Perhaps it would work better if the puzzle was darker than the last piece, and maybe if the composition placed the last piece more toward the center of the photo.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 04/27/2005 06:52:50 PM
Interesting setup. Almost missed it on a first look.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 04/27/2005 02:42:49 PM
Well to me this is really busy and I don't see it as fitting the challenge. Also the left side is blown out and the right is dark. ? Maybe this was done intentionally, I don't know.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 04/27/2005 02:32:57 PM
Great idea. It's busy, though, and it wasn't until I looked up at the title for help and then searched for the last piece that my eye picked it up. Colors came out nice and rich, though.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 04/27/2005 09:46:04 AM
Puzzle is way too distracting.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 04/27/2005 07:54:20 AM
I'm not sure that this fits with my interpretation, but its nice enough.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 04/27/2005 06:14:59 AM
The lighting isn't even. You could try to darken the whole photo except your subject.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 04/27/2005 06:02:04 AM
for me the strong point(subject) of this photo is the puzzle as i had to look for the final piece
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 04/27/2005 12:46:33 AM
This reminds me of when I put cars back together. I always have leftover pieces.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 04/26/2005 10:46:33 PM
barrel effekt from the lens
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 04/26/2005 10:38:36 PM
In minimalism; the subject should consume only a small portion (how much is debateable) of the overall image. If the puzzle piece were in focus and the rest of the puzzel burred or background to the piece, that would be minimalism.
  Photographer found comment helpful.


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