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Tasseography: The Psychic Art of Reading Tea Leaves
Tasseography: The Psychic Art of Reading Tea Leaves
IndigoButterfly


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Challenge: Superstitions & Urban Legends II (Basic Editing III)
Camera: Nikon Coolpix 8800
Location: my kitchen
Date: Jun 27, 2006
Date Uploaded: Jun 27, 2006

 Orange Pekoe Tea in one of my favorite tea cups.
Process: autolevels, rotated, diffused glow, sharpened, cropped

I have no idea how this will do, but I like how it turned out.
:)

Post: Thanks for the comments! I realize the cut should been empty, but those shots didn't turn out as well. It wasn't until later that I realized the inverted version is also quite nice.

Statistics
Place: 34 out of 97
Avg (all users): 5.5071
Avg (commenters): 5.9000
Avg (participants): 5.4773
Avg (non-participants): 5.5113
Views since voting: 1410
Views during voting: 468
Votes: 353
Comments: 22
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
07/04/2006 07:44:24 PM
Nice presentation. I like the use of the vintage looking china. The image is a bit noisy and I would have liked to see a more interesting pattern in the tea, but overall I quite like it!
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 07/04/2006 07:31:26 AM
Technical: 2/3
Aesthetic: 2/3
Personal Tilt: 1/3
Wow!: 0/1
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 07/04/2006 03:28:27 AM
Interesting concept
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 07/02/2006 11:19:11 AM
They kind of look like bacon bits. Good use of DOF, the eye is immediately drawn into the cup. Some might have complained about the china pattern being too busy or distracting, but here I find it adds some interest and color to the shot. Good concept.
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 07/01/2006 10:21:57 PM
Ahh...I see a heart...you are in for love. Wait a minute...aren't you meant to have drunk the tea first?
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 07/01/2006 05:19:23 AM
Love the angle and contrast of colours
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 07/01/2006 12:54:10 AM
Nice idea!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 06/29/2006 11:04:55 AM
Very nice use of DOF. :) The lighting you've used gives a very "soft" feel to the cup and plate - very nice.
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 06/28/2006 10:29:47 PM
The tea cups meant to be emptied!!! lol
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 06/28/2006 02:13:24 PM
Nice china here, i think it's very nice. I think a crop that didn't include that stuff in the top right corner would be good. If it was possible to somehow light the tea and not as much the china I think it would be a very cool effect.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 06/28/2006 01:56:39 PM
Good POV and colors in this picture. 7
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 06/28/2006 01:40:57 PM
Very nicely done that it looks like something (a heart). Could be love in your future. I sorta wish there was a great deal more DOF. I don't like the blurry side of the cup. A tip, if you are just doing the shot for DPC is to take advantage of the 640 px size. You can hold the camera quite a bit back and then crop later. This gives your camera much more apparent DOF with the same aperture.

Of course not knowing who this is, I may be talking to a ribbon winner, in which case, forget I said anything. ;) 7
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 06/28/2006 01:11:24 PM
nice idea and composition. this looks a little weird though the leaves seem to be in decent focus and so deos the saucer but the tea cup seems quite out of focus.
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 06/28/2006 12:10:11 PM
love this shot. my grandmother reads tea leaves and it brings back memories. she even uses a similar cup and saucer. a 10 from me!
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 06/28/2006 10:40:37 AM
And your leaves show a heart. Love in your future?
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 06/28/2006 09:57:00 AM
I'm not sure I like the angle of this picture..
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 06/28/2006 09:05:19 AM
top 20 score for originality, larger tea leaves mixed in with smaller ones and less of a clump would have pushed me into a higher score
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 06/28/2006 08:49:40 AM
so, what are they saying? :)
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 06/28/2006 08:17:42 AM
This is not an Urband Legend or Superstition. It is a serious practice. It is a very nice image, but has nothing to do with this challenge.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 06/28/2006 04:13:41 AM
cleaver formation of leaves i predict a long photgrapic carer ;)
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 06/27/2006 10:13:28 PM
Nice shot, and I like the angle that you have taken this...
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 06/27/2006 09:45:47 PM
It must have taken u a lot of effort with the tea leaves... Good effort..
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