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Challenge: Deja Vu II (Advanced Editing IV)
Camera: Canon EOS-300D Rebel
Lens: Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II
Location: My basement
Date: Mar 19, 2006
Aperture: f4
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/40
Galleries: Still Life, Studio
Date Uploaded: Mar 19, 2006

 My best imitation of:



My daughter's PrismaColor pencils. I tried to pick the same colors, and arrange them in the same order as Librodo's blue ribbon shot. It looks like I didn't get a perfect match. I also went for the same angle. I had to rotate the photo to get close to that. My lighting is different, so I had to do a little burning to kill the glare of highlights on the gold pencil. My center is not quite as round. I even tried to emulate the DOF, even though he got a few comments about that being a drawback. The one thing I did get exact is the photo dimensions of 640x461. Do I expect the 7.058 score he got? Heck no! I'll take anything over a 5.3 and be happy (okay, that's a lie).

Shot in my basement on black felt with a 1000 watt Sears worklight, through a white umbrella.

In PSCS2:
rotate
crop
resize
levels
shadow/highlight
hue/saturation
burn highlights
cloned/healed some spots
exposure
USM

This is THE most fun I have ever had with a challenge. This was the fourth different ribbon winner I attempted, but was always my first choice. How some of the original ribbon winners were done with basic editing, I'll never know.

Statistics
Place: 45 out of 141
Avg (all users): 6.3950
Avg (commenters): 6.0000
Avg (participants): 6.2841
Avg (non-participants): 6.4821
Views since voting: 1803
Views during voting: 323
Votes: 200
Comments: 7
Favorites: 3 (view)

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 03/30/2006 07:40:47 PM
You know what? I find your pic better than my original. No kidding. More crisp....mine was oversharpened.
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 03/30/2006 07:33:02 PM
Isn't it amazing how statistics works! In response to your post I predicted 6.3 to be in top 50 in the accompanying thread (actually, my simple calculation based on the previous Deja Vu challenge gave 46th place) and you ended up on 45th! Congrats on a nice image!

(I predicted myself to be in top 10, and was right, too :))
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 Comments Made During the Challenge
03/26/2006 09:10:06 AM
this is great!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 03/24/2006 02:57:53 PM
very cool!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 03/23/2006 11:35:07 PM
Strarting to lose a little sharpness over at the back, otherwise good reproduction
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 03/23/2006 10:20:33 PM
The form of the ring created by the tips puts this one off for me. Also there is some space between some colors, just my 2 cents :) nice effort though.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 03/23/2006 08:51:25 PM
that's a good copy
  Photographer found comment helpful.


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