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Challenge: Tools of the Trade (Basic Editing III)
Camera: Nikon D50
Lens: Nikon MF Nikkor 50mm f/2.0
Location: Kotka, Finland
Date: Jul 26, 2005
Aperture: 16
ISO: 200
Shutter: 250
Galleries: Still Life, Studio
Date Uploaded: Jul 26, 2005

 Just signed up for this great website and eagerly waited to participate the challenges. This one happens to be the first and I decided to submit my view even though I couldn't think of anything stunning given the subject.. will be nice to see what others have made of this. :)

Now what has a pair of worn out Asics jogging shoes and some once-white gloves have together? Nothing - and everything. I personally use this high-tech equipment to carry out my duties as the paperboy, but these casual tools of trade are useful in pretty much every casual work there is to do.

To get this picture I covered a chair with white cardboard (home studio!) and carried it outside. Next came the phase I like to call manual bracketing - shoot some two hundred photos to be sure to get at least one with exposure and focus just right. Tried numerous compositions and in the end liked this one the best. Played with hue, saturation and levels in Photoshop to get feeling right, and there it was! My first submission!

Statistics
Place: 167 out of 342
Avg (all users): 5.0260
Avg (commenters): 6.6667
Avg (participants): 4.8264
Avg (non-participants): 5.1892
Views since voting: 1183
Views during voting: 357
Votes: 269
Comments: 6
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
07/30/2005 06:17:03 PM
who wheres work gloves casualy? anyway extreamly nice background.. you must have taken hours gerring the right angle, lol, just tryin to get you a bit "razeled" great photo~! and who uses the word razeled anymore?
 07/30/2005 04:11:28 PM
Excellent lighting, Good framing. Good addition of drama to a plain-jane subject. -- 10
 07/28/2005 06:27:17 AM
I like the slight desat which grays out the colors slightly. Very simple. Good use of negative space. Even more at the top would have worked. 7
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 07/27/2005 01:35:09 PM
I hope they smell better than my 3 sons's! Good composition, and strong image
 07/27/2005 01:23:55 PM
nice still life
 07/26/2005 11:49:17 PM
tools of which trade? a jogger who also cleans the chimney? what is with the dirty gloves? a cross trainer?
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