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Challenge: Furniture (Advanced Editing V)
Camera: Canon EOS-400D Rebel XTi
Lens: Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6
Location: Albuquerque, NM
Date: Mar 4, 2007
Aperture: f/3.5
ISO: 400
Shutter: 1/80 sec
Galleries: Interior, Still Life
Date Uploaded: Mar 4, 2007

I held the chair upside down while my wife hit the button. One small shop light on the wall, one on the chair.

Shot in RAW: adjusted white balance and exposure

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A little clone on the chair
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This one is in honor of karmat and her wonderfully creative image:

It was the first thing I thought of when I saw the challenge announced!

Statistics
Place: 46 out of 163
Avg (all users): 5.8223
Avg (commenters): 6.3636
Avg (participants): 5.7662
Avg (non-participants): 5.8583
Views since voting: 841
Votes: 197
Comments: 16
Favorites: 2 (view)


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03/18/2007 02:08:27 AM
Hi, Greetings from the Critique Club:

Composition:This is great. I love the idea and the execution of the image. I like how you have put it off centre...but am getting lost in the vacant space on the right. Maybe if you could have put a bookshelf or something there upside down...so when you flipped it, it would have looked even more convincing and also fill up the space.

Technical: You have the settings, lighting and focus right...but I would like to see some Shadow/Highlight used to bring out some of the shoe details and show some richness in the wood. I feel the green is very off putting and would like to see that changed to a different hue.

Overall:I think this is a fantastic effort....and with a little more detail concentration you can really pull off a winner with it next time.
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03/11/2007 09:20:10 PM
I Loved this one! You got ripped man
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
03/09/2007 01:02:00 AM
Well done... good imagination...
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03/08/2007 10:23:29 PM
Cool play on the name of the shoes. Great image.
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03/08/2007 04:56:30 PM
points for clever wordplay, but otherwise boring photo
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03/08/2007 12:08:03 PM
New Balance - The super light shoe - Very creative - good luck in this challenge
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03/08/2007 04:32:23 AM
very clever! :)
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03/07/2007 12:24:18 PM
wow!!! you better take this down before newbalance themselves steal this idea from you...AMAZING!!!!!!! maybe even propose this idea to them...royalties possibility..
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03/07/2007 03:47:26 AM
Creative, inventive, nice lighting, 10.
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03/06/2007 06:13:58 PM
Not a nike air is it :) ( am I the 10th person to make that lame joke?) Nice Idea, I like the vengetting I think you could use more lighting on the chair as it look like you have lost a bit of detail there. Good Luck
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03/06/2007 06:05:17 PM
New take on old idea?
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03/05/2007 02:38:36 PM
oddly enough, i saw another of this shot from the illusion challenge way back when, just today. like it :)
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03/05/2007 11:43:57 AM
Very creative well done on making an average pic look much better.
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03/05/2007 08:09:35 AM
Inspired by Karmat, eh?
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03/05/2007 03:40:58 AM
l'homage?, tribute?, redo?, or just a copy? ... I don't see any reason this won't do well again but the idea is half of it ... isn't it?
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03/04/2007 07:43:28 PM
clever...well executed and well lit
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