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A Balanced Meal
A Balanced Meal
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Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Yellow III (Advanced Editing IV)
Camera: Canon EOS-300D Rebel
Lens: Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II
Location: My basement
Date: Mar 31, 2006
Aperture: f8
ISO: 400
Shutter: 1/30
Galleries: Still Life, Food and Drink
Date Uploaded: Mar 31, 2006

 White core board background
Shot from atop a ladder in my basement under two Sears 1000 watt work lights through white umbrellas, and a flash, bounced off the wall.

Thanks to my artsy-fartsy 16 year old daughter for the still life setup. I was told not to do this until she could help. Our first setup included mustard and we shot it on the back side of gift wrap paper. That didn't work well. The mustard had a big stain around it. The whole layout really was bad, too. But we're happy with this one.

In PSCS2:

rotate, crop, resize, levels, shadow/highlight, USM, clone & heal for a stray banana string, a lemon juice spot and some crumbs around the pound cake

Statistics
Place: 83 out of 404
Avg (all users): 5.8706
Avg (commenters): 7.1000
Avg (participants): 5.7563
Avg (non-participants): 6.1373
Views since voting: 1349
Views during voting: 284
Votes: 170
Comments: 14
Favorites: 2 (view)

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AuthorThread
 04/10/2006 05:36:19 AM
Loved the whole layout! The lighting is great, composition is right-on and a well thought out plan.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
04/09/2006 02:12:49 AM
this is a very balanced photo! great job!
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 04/07/2006 01:03:10 PM
Meal? I wouldn't eat all of those things at once! Neat idea and arrangement though! :)
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 04/07/2006 07:57:48 AM
Not sure the pure sugar in the peeps counts as balanced, but it's a good take on the challenge!
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 04/06/2006 03:59:27 PM
unique
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 04/05/2006 12:30:52 PM
Peeps! Yay!
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 04/04/2006 08:47:41 PM
ok, this is nasty..... it's late.. dinner is only a memory and I am hungry :) the structure in this shot works.. the only thing that might have improved this shot would be a darker background - the white seems to desaturate the yellows.
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 04/04/2006 07:28:59 PM
very creative...
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 04/04/2006 08:18:28 AM
No meal is complete without the Peeps!
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 04/04/2006 07:34:04 AM
i don't know what editing software you are using, but i would suggest if you are using photoshop to go into the hue/saturation adjustments, select "yellow" from the drop down menu and then slide the saturation up a bit, i think it would have helped this image tremendously, i like it as is, but would give it the extra punch
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 04/04/2006 07:12:56 AM
Clever idea that works really well.....
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 04/03/2006 06:00:18 AM
Nice idea and symmetry - would have liked to have perfect, unblemished fruit to match the non-rustic white background.
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 04/03/2006 05:29:16 AM
one of my favs. so far. great job!
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 04/02/2006 11:32:40 PM
Very nice and creative.
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