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2001: A Snake Oddity
2001: A Snake Oddity
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Challenge: Chinese Zodiac (Advanced Editing I)
Collection: Portfolio
Camera: Olympus D-490Z
Location: Oakland, California, USA
Date: Jan 24, 2004
Aperture: 3.0
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/6
Galleries: Abstract
Date Uploaded: Jan 24, 2004

 Close-up of the shed skin of my dad's Ball Python, Morobi. She has some kind of nerve damage and is partially paralyzed, so last time I was visiting my dad and my son Isaac helped her shed.

Since the skin is inside-out and dried, the patterns are not so distinct, and the scales look kind of like bubble-wrap.

White Balance set to tungsten, Exposure Compensation to -0.5 eV.

Tone curves to add to boost the drab colors/flat contrast, used the channel mixer to convert to Grayscale, then Duotone mode with Black and Pantone 123 as the colors. Then some sharpening for the details.

Statistics
Place: 71 out of 77
Avg (all users): 4.1438
Avg (commenters): 3.3333
Avg (participants): 4.0517
Avg (non-participants): 4.2045
Views since voting: 1153
Votes: 146
Comments: 5
Favorites: 0

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 Comments Made During the Challenge
01/29/2004 05:21:51 PM
Not sure about this and not sure what I am really looking at
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 01/27/2004 05:07:04 PM
i love this! Nice texture... very origional... i'd give u an 7
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 01/25/2004 09:20:25 PM
Nice title but the photograph is just too open ended for me.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 01/25/2004 12:22:33 PM
Witty title but image is very unappealing. No contrast, no focal point, no composition to speak of...
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 01/24/2004 07:32:25 PM
Great title :-)
  Photographer found comment helpful.


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