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Challenge: Abstract Food (Advanced Editing IV)
Collection: Challenge Entries (most)
Camera: Canon PowerShot S2 IS
Location: My basement
Date: Jul 16, 2006
Aperture: 3.5
ISO: 100
Shutter: 2
Galleries: Abstract, Food and Drink
Date Uploaded: Jul 15, 2006
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Idea #7 billion.
It was fun shopping for this challenge. I'd never gone to the store looking for interesting shapes and colors.
At least this cheese was something I originally thought of from the beginning. It has small holes and is called "baby Swiss." I thought the holes might align or misalign and produce interesting shapes of varying brightness when backlit.
I was half right - they align sometimes. :) But the slices were too thick to see the different brightness levels, so I went with just three slices.
I liked the orange color of BeeCee's abstract macro entry:  so tried to get there using a flashlight covered with orange tissue paper.
The cheese by itself was missing something. I'm not sure the cherry tomato I added was what it was missing, but that's what I'm going with. :)
This is certainly abstract. And it's, uh, food. Whether it's attractive is another question!
Editing: USM, crop, curves, cloned out some stray spots, resize, save for Web, noise reduction
Outtakes: are either of these better?
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07/30/2006 07:24:56 PM |
From the Critique Club:
I need to preface these comments with the fact that I'm not a huge fan of abstracts. I more of a traditionalist as a photographer. I do get the appeal of this form, it just ain't my cup of tea so to speak. That said...
What I like: I like the repetition of shapes that you have in this image. The overlapping squares and circles give this a neat appearance. I like how you have the wholes in the cheese almost overlapping so that you have different shadings showing through. I like the dark circle in the center of the cheese. I would never have guessed that you added a tomato to give it this effect. I also like the tones that you have achieved.
What I don't like: You said it yourself, it's an abstract, but it isn't all that attractive. This looks more like a study shot to me. You know, the kind of shot that you play around with taking many different snaps just to see what you end up with. As a study it is very interesting. As an abstract, not so much. You have a lot of noise in this. This is probably a limitation of your camera at such a slow shutter speed. In some shots it would help. In this one, I'm not sure that it adds anything. I'm not sure I like the tones that you have achieved. I know this sounds contradictory, but at first I really liked the red's, but after looking at it longer and knowing that it is cheese...
Hope something here is useful.
Yours
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07/22/2006 01:29:06 PM |
| nice idea. i like the translucent swiss. |
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07/21/2006 09:26:29 PM |
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07/17/2006 06:33:33 PM |
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07/17/2006 04:20:31 PM |
| Cool... reminds me... I tell it after the challenge over :D 7 |
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07/17/2006 10:50:01 AM |
| CHEEEEEESE! My favorite food. |
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07/16/2006 10:15:40 PM |
| love this, wish it were cropped so there was no black on the outer edges 7 |
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07/16/2006 09:30:49 PM |
| fantastic idea and well executed for a great result |
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