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Challenge: Puzzle Macro (Basic Editing)
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Camera: Canon EOS-20D
Lens: Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 USM Macro
Location: London, UK
Date: Jun 19, 2007
Aperture: F/2.8
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/125th sec
Galleries: Abstract, Macro
Date Uploaded: Jun 19, 2007

 Canon 100/2.8 with reversed 50/1.8 on an adapter ring to get that lovely 2:1 macro :D

In case you can't guess what it is, the macro ratio should give a clue as to the small scale... it's a comb!

Edit: Convert from RAW using auto settings (I'm lazy), resize to 640, convert to mono using the green channel, mess with the levels to deep the shadow and midtones, sharpen lots, save as JPEG.

----- POST CHALLENGE -----

Only one successful guess (congrats to robinssong!), out of 20 attempts? Looks like my puzzle was just too tricky for most of you :o) For the curious, here's a zoomed-out view of what I shot:


Statistics
Place: 190 out of 300
Avg (all users): 5.1882
Avg (commenters): 5.2632
Avg (participants): 5.1034
Avg (non-participants): 5.2626
Views since voting: 820
Views during voting: 275
Votes: 186
Comments: 21
Favorites: 0

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 06/27/2007 01:06:27 AM
This was equal top for me - very interesting, unusual and creative. I'm out of step here!!
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
06/26/2007 06:34:26 PM
Not a clue, but it's kind of a cool looking abstract.
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 06/26/2007 09:40:45 AM
the blown highlights make it too hard to guess...
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 06/26/2007 07:53:08 AM
nice texture and light on this foldy mystery object!
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 06/26/2007 03:52:23 AM
Part of a comb?
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 06/25/2007 11:12:21 PM
Wow, eerily beautiful. This is capturing!!! Curtains? Love this one! It's one of my favorites so far!!
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 06/23/2007 11:54:19 AM
can't tell
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 06/23/2007 09:54:51 AM
very interesting. I think there is too much noise for my taste, but I love the lighting.
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 06/23/2007 07:46:58 AM
This sort of looks like glass but then again it looks like it has fibers in it. It's a bit grainy and not very sharp so it's hard to tell.
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 06/22/2007 08:21:40 PM
looks like leather, accordian?
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 06/22/2007 07:01:06 PM
Is this your furnace filter?
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 06/22/2007 03:51:40 PM
This is lovely, I'd guess something polystyrene but it doesn't matter. It's a lovely restful shot, the subtle colour is beautiful.
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 06/21/2007 05:57:41 PM
cloth?
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 06/21/2007 01:21:49 PM
Nice shot of a peice of cloth with a hair dog under it?
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 06/21/2007 11:34:56 AM
Has skin-like textures. ??? I'm stumped!
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 06/21/2007 09:56:37 AM
really don't know but there are parts that look like hair so I wanted to guess hand but the lines are to angular for that so I'm not sure.
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 06/21/2007 04:46:12 AM
no idea
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 06/20/2007 05:56:43 PM
no idea, good one, i like the focal length too
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 06/20/2007 03:32:15 PM
I dont know what this is and dont find it very interesting. A bit soft.
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 06/20/2007 03:48:51 AM
oo, i'll have to come back to this. no idea. lovely pic, though
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 06/19/2007 09:31:30 PM
looks kinda like a fish' fin
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