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Revenge of the Cornucopia
Revenge of the Cornucopia
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Challenge: Contre-jour (Basic Editing)
Camera: Canon EOS-300D Rebel
Lens: Canon EF 35mm f/2.0
Location: @home
Date: Mar 31, 2007
Aperture: f/22
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/200
Galleries: Still Life, Food and Drink
Date Uploaded: Mar 31, 2007

 I messed up big time at the still-contest. Photographed a classic Cornucopia and tried to postprocess it to look like an old painting. Went way over the top in postprocessing however, thus spoiling the overall image. Picture scored 4.5-ish, my worst score ever, and comments praised the composition, but spoke sadly of lighting, white balance and hue.

This calls for Revenge! So I decided to do a remake and use a backlight to fit it in the Contre-jour contest. Maybe not the best contre-jour picture that I can make, but who gives a banana? Slightly different fruits, slightly different ordering, different background and the added backlight, but otherwise the same picture.

Postprocessing:
RAW to jpg
levels
saturation
crop
resize
sharpen

Statistics
Place: 226 out of 332
Avg (all users): 5.0112
Avg (commenters): 6.5000
Avg (participants): 4.7792
Avg (non-participants): 5.1881
Views since voting: 934
Views during voting: 269
Votes: 178
Comments: 8
Favorites: 0

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AuthorThread
 05/20/2007 10:50:55 PM
Got my revenge, though it didn't do too well. Citymars got the joke, I like to make people laugh.

To those thinking this is not a contre-jour: It is, and anyone can see it. It makes you think how thorough some DPC=-members review pictures. ;)
 04/12/2007 07:55:16 PM
Mark_u_U, this cracked me up when I saw it and saw your title (I was one of those who left a negative comment on your other cornucopia photo). This is a much better photo. Happy to see it and thanks for the laugh!
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
04/10/2007 06:25:08 PM
Not really a good contre-jour for me. 4
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 04/06/2007 08:58:56 PM
artistic composition of an unusual cornucopia assortment
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 04/06/2007 01:22:26 PM
It does not look to me as meeting the challenge..no vote
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 04/06/2007 08:27:32 AM
It's a nice arrangement, but the light does not obscure the details of the cornucopia.
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 04/04/2007 10:06:35 AM
IMO a white background is not the same as counter-light. DNMC
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 04/04/2007 09:43:48 AM
Nice! I love the clearness of all the colors! Great job!
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