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Apple Desaturator
Apple Desaturator
jgrieco


Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Kitchenware (Advanced Editing V)
Camera: Olympus C-765UZ
Location: Calgary
Date: Apr 22, 2007
Aperture: f 8.0
ISO: 64
Shutter: 1/3
Date Uploaded: Apr 22, 2007

 Applied light tent with green background as complementary colour to apple & handles.

Adjustment layers
- minor level correction
Duplicate layer
Magic wand selection for top half of apple
- desaturate & auto contrast
Magic wand selection & copy to layer for bottom half
- saturate +20 0r so
Soften wrinkle in background with cloning
Flatten
Sharpen
Resize & save for web
Neat Image on web file


Statistics
Place: 51 out of 149
Avg (all users): 5.8587
Avg (commenters): 7.0000
Avg (participants): 5.4576
Avg (non-participants): 6.0480
Views since voting: 755
Views during voting: 310
Votes: 184
Comments: 15
Favorites: 0

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AuthorThread
 05/02/2007 12:25:10 PM
Hi from the Critique Club,

Wow! What a clever concept! Very crisp image with good detail. Good choice of background for bringing out both the red and the black of the apple. The handles are a bit distracting (white or black might have been better), and you missed a bit of the apple that should have been desaturated (behind the handle on the right).

Great lighting, contrast, and concept!

Regards,
Geoff Ball
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
04/29/2007 07:12:19 PM
very creative! great processing
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 04/29/2007 04:36:36 PM
Great idea. Nice shot. 7
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 04/27/2007 04:19:06 AM
I personally don't really like that shade of green but WOW what a great concept and treatment of the subject. 7
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 04/26/2007 07:08:26 PM
the extra element of title-related discovery made this fun for me. thanks.
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 04/26/2007 04:27:00 PM
great idea. 7
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 04/25/2007 08:07:09 PM
I had a similar one, but I never noticed that effect!
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 04/24/2007 11:40:13 AM
I'm confused on why you desaturated the apple. With the strong greens and reds the gray just looks out of place IMHO.
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 04/24/2007 08:45:03 AM
That is funny, good imagination, good execution
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 04/24/2007 04:17:36 AM
This is very clever and one of my faves!
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 04/23/2007 08:50:56 PM
Thiis a cool Idea, i love the tacky 70's advertisement colors 8
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 04/23/2007 01:06:17 PM
Super cool!
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 04/23/2007 12:30:31 PM
clever
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 04/23/2007 07:03:02 AM
Neat :)
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 04/23/2007 01:15:55 AM
very creative, good angle. well done except for the cropped plate
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