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Challenge: Spots (Basic Editing)
Camera: Canon PowerShot G2
Location: inside my home
Date: Nov 14, 2006
Aperture: f2.5
ISO: 50
Shutter: 1/25
Galleries: Humorous, Children
Date Uploaded: Nov 14, 2006
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This is my son Skylar's trained fish. We worked for a solid week to perfect this act.
Actually, I had promised Skylar for several months that he could have a fish, so what better time to go out and get one WITH SPOTS! Have you ever tried to work with a 3 year old AND a fish? Neither were very cooperative, but when I bribed Skylar with chocolate, he agreed he would do a few shots. Since the fish kept swimming to the other side of the bowl, I knew I wouldn't be able to capture both fish and boy the way I wanted to. Plan B kicked in: I took a picture of just "Fishy" (Skylar picked the name) and printed and cut it out. It was attached to the side of the bowl with a thin wire. The hoop is a small embroidery hoop.
(Edit after the challenge) What I learned - I should have used a WHITE background (that is the true color of the wall), as viewers thought I had too much yellow cast.
Post-processing in PS: adjustments in brightness/contrast, saturation/hues, sharpen, cloned out a few dust spots, reduced file size, neat image, added a border, a little unsharp mask, saved for web.
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11/21/2006 07:19:26 PM |
| very creative, nice job. It looks like your son is planning to have it for lunch. |
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11/21/2006 11:14:19 AM |
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11/21/2006 08:39:28 AM |
| Good Idea, but... exposure is bad, dark yellow. I think if you back light it and put the child in a solid shirt. Bring out the spot's in the fish. |
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11/20/2006 04:34:26 PM |
| Hope you'll share how you pulled this off in basic. Great shot. |
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11/20/2006 12:40:23 AM |
| would have looked better if you faked a splash in the bowl...which also looks way too small for a fish of that size. however, that expression is pretty great...looks like the fish is about to jump right into his mouth :) |
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11/19/2006 02:53:53 PM |
| were there any fish harmed in the making of this photo?....kool kid |
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11/19/2006 01:41:45 PM |
| A very funny capture. A litle w.b. would help it eveb further. |
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11/19/2006 11:18:38 AM |
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11/18/2006 10:59:15 PM |
| Darn cute picture, but not enough emphasis on the spots. |
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11/18/2006 01:36:36 PM |
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11/17/2006 07:27:58 PM |
| lol very clever - but it looks like the fish is starting it's jump outside the bowl? |
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11/17/2006 04:35:50 PM |
| Ohmygoodness! How did you do that! GENIUS!!!! I sure hope he was let back in the water quick. Poor little fishy! |
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11/15/2006 12:33:28 AM |
| Nice capture but main object is too small. |
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