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Black Pottery of Northern Mexico
Black Pottery of Northern Mexico
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Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Black (Advanced Editing I)
Camera: Canon EOS-10D
Location: Tonawanda, NY
Date: Feb 15, 2004
Aperture: F/16.0
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/200
Galleries: Abstract, Still Life
Date Uploaded: Feb 15, 2004

 This is one of several black pottery pieces that my archaeologist son brought back with him while in northern Mexico several years ago. He purchased this piece from the natives around Sonora.

The photograph was made looking straight down into the mouth of the pottery through the 50mm/1.8 lens of my Canon 10D, mounted horizontally on my 3021BPRO Bogen/Manfrotto tripod. For lighting I used Alien Bees monolights at 45 degrees to either side of the subject.

Post-processing included Photoshop auto levels, cropping, usm, and brightness/contrast tweeking. I also replaced the white background with black, before applying Neat Image to remove some noise.

Statistics
Place: 14 out of 142
Avg (all users): 6.1544
Avg (commenters): 7.1111
Avg (participants): 6.1294
Avg (non-participants): 6.1961
Views since voting: 1426
Votes: 136
Comments: 10
Favorites: 1 (view)

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 Comments Made During the Challenge
02/20/2004 05:59:27 PM
A pretty pot, and nicely captured.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 02/19/2004 04:27:11 PM
Not sure I like the straight down angle
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 02/18/2004 03:18:21 PM
Wonderful simplicity and complexity. It would be hard to say what this was without the title. Good choice to show the light source within the composition. Everything is perfect, imo. It was a pleasure to look at this.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 02/17/2004 10:26:55 PM
Beautiful! Love the off center, off setting reflections!
TC
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 02/17/2004 05:17:50 PM
The design and composition on this are well done. the blacks look silvery in places, and they could be blacker.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 02/17/2004 01:20:27 PM
Why did you choose top view? Would be more interesting to see it from different angle. 7
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 02/17/2004 02:56:41 AM
*Almost* perfectly symmetrical... so close... :)
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 02/16/2004 04:53:05 PM
Nicely done. You'll probably be chastised for doing a "black and white" but it is authentic pottery and well photographed. 9
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 02/16/2004 01:56:29 PM
neat
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 02/16/2004 12:42:29 PM
I'm not sure what to think about this. Maybe a white background to make the black stand out better? Maybe not.
  Photographer found comment helpful.


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