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Simmer : Ecliptic — 2005
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Challenge: Circle (Basic Editing III)
Collection: Challenges
Camera: Nikon Coolpix 5700
Location: Harwich Port, MA, USA
Date: Jul 5, 2005
Aperture: f:6.0
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/4
Date Uploaded: Jul 1, 2005

 Another in my string of banal objects plainly photographed and minimally processed, just to prove I can do it :-) Egg coming to boil in teflon pan.

Image was essentially monochrome even in RGB mode, so I left it there; adjusted tonalities a little with selective color, leveled, sharpened, cropped, resized, border and save for web.

Statistics
Place: 38 out of 545
Avg (all users): 5.9660
Avg (commenters): 7.5714
Avg (participants): 5.7895
Avg (non-participants): 6.2114
Views since voting: 1104
Views during voting: 381
Votes: 294
Comments: 23
Favorites: 1 (view)

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AuthorThread
 07/21/2005 08:02:13 AM
nice abstract - should have fared better. well done !
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 07/21/2005 06:47:25 AM
Have only now found this CIRCLE entry and Robert I am stunned it isn't at least a top 10 finisher with a mid 6 score. If I had not entered this challenge (and therefore voted in it) I would have been compelled to join the three lonely TEN voters. Love it.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 07/13/2005 04:05:44 AM
The bubbles are caught in the stage just before they break loose from the bottom, so movement is minimal, and minimalized further by the fact that we're looking nearly straight down on them. Since I use only "found light" (it's a matter of principle right now) and since I needed DOF, and since my camera is VERY noisy at anything but ISO 100, I just shot a lot of exposures at 1/4 second, actually underexposing the shot) and chose the one with the least movement.

I too am surprised this didn't do better. IMHO this is a very creative take on the challenge, showing somethign few people bother to look at closely (my glorification of the banal concept). Still, it has no color and it has no in-your-face eye-appeal, so I gues that's askign a bit much.

Thanks to all commenters.

R.
 07/13/2005 02:55:41 AM
Thought this should have ribboned!
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 07/13/2005 02:29:03 AM
I still love this shot, but am amazed you got this clarity of bubbles on a 1/4 shutter speed. Not sure if you have the function (or the desire), but a slightly faster shutter would have stopped the motion fractionally better. In taking photos of air bubbles in water from the side on, I found that I needed shutter speeds of 1/3200 in order to stop the bubble completely.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 07/12/2005 09:42:07 PM
I greatly enjoy this one.... creative dynamic banality! superior editing.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 07/12/2005 09:35:30 PM
I completely agree with Olyuzi. I had you pegged for the top ten on this challenge. Congratulations on a great shot regardless of its final standing.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 07/12/2005 08:28:23 PM
Highly underrated image. Wonderful abstract, terrific tonality and original.

Message edited by author 2005-07-13 00:39:05.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
07/12/2005 03:27:01 PM
best in this series of bubbles... 7 for good composition, framing. clarity could have been better.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 07/09/2005 02:10:28 PM
cool.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 07/08/2005 06:58:33 AM
Great perspective. The border adds a nice touch.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 07/07/2005 10:54:37 AM
Beautiful..love the placement of the egg..great work.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 07/07/2005 05:11:30 AM
Interesting effect.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 07/06/2005 10:30:14 PM
great shot, clean, crisp and a perfect entry for this challenge
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 07/06/2005 05:28:31 PM
Neat. How'd you do that without steaming up the lens?! 6
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 07/06/2005 12:55:44 PM
Neat, creative idea and excellent execution. Well lit and sharp. 8
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 07/06/2005 11:35:06 AM
that's really cool - it makes me want breakfast again! excellent exposure and I love the composition 7
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 07/06/2005 09:44:21 AM
ooooh - new favourite so far. Super cool (or hot).
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 07/06/2005 06:35:00 AM
I Love this photograph! Imaginative. diez.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 07/06/2005 02:13:28 AM
awsome. what a great idea 9
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 07/06/2005 01:53:24 AM
Nice but what is that :)
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 07/05/2005 10:04:41 PM
Wow! What exactly are these? That's a neat neat texture whatever it is The large object in the top tight balances the photo quite well... could lightning have improved to actually cause more an eclipse effect? -8 - JeB
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 07/05/2005 08:14:00 PM
WOW! Great idea and very well executed shot. I love it.
  Photographer found comment helpful.


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