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Challenge: Holiday Catalog (Advanced Editing IV)
Collection: Challenge Entries
Camera: Canon EOS-300D Rebel
Lens: Canon EF 35-80mm f/4.0-5.6 III
Location: Binghamton, NY
Date: Dec 11, 2005
Aperture: F/11
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/40
Galleries: Still Life, Advertisement
Date Uploaded: Dec 11, 2005

 My grandmother's handmade opal necklace and diamond earings. Shot using (3) Lowes clip-lamps with GE natural light bulbs & the on-camera flash for pop.
In Photoshop, opened, Levels, Curves, Hue&Sat, Selective Color, clone, heal, dodge, burn, resize, border, USM, save for web.

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Votes: 177
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
12/18/2005 07:09:13 AM
Nice composition, but on my monitor the hotspots on the opal pendant seem blown out, as does much of the white background. A more diffuse light source may have helped you here.
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 12/15/2005 12:52:21 AM
I need the subjects to flow more, but great sparkle in the opal
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 12/14/2005 02:48:50 PM
Too bad those hot spots showed up on the opal and the gold.
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 12/14/2005 02:07:25 PM
The composition is ok, but the blown highlights on the jewel and the compression artifacts or oversharpening (jagged lines on the ribbon) hurt this.
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 12/11/2005 09:21:04 PM
You need another background besides white. The highlights on the bezel around the opal blend into the background and you lose definition.
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 12/11/2005 08:05:23 PM
Merry X-mas from me 10
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 12/11/2005 07:46:11 PM
I think the placement of the bow and tinsel is too matchy matchy. I think it'd be more artful if the pendant wasn't so centered. I'd lay it lazily, and maybe have the earrings together with a tight macro. The bow looks kind of bent and old. I don't think it even adds to the shot. I'd remove it, crop it out, so that would help the target center issue of the pendant. The gold of the tinsel mimics the gold chain and the bezel of the earrings. This has definite potential.
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