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Musical Lines
Musical Lines
Jacques123


Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Leading Lines IV (Basic Editing)
Camera: Sony DSLR-A100
Lens: Tamron SP AF 90mm f/2.8 Di for Minolta
Location: Indoors, Bloemfontein, South Africa
Date: Feb 19, 2008
Aperture: F22
ISO: 400
Shutter: 10s
Galleries: Macro
Date Uploaded: Feb 19, 2008

 Musical Lines

A photo of guitar strings. A small light source were used for light in a dark room.

Camara settings:

10s,
F22,
Ex. Correction +0.0Ev
ISO 400

Using Photoshop CS2 Camera Raw:

Adjusted the .ARW file under the following tabs:

Adjust:

Temprature 15000F
Tint +100
Exposure -1.50
Shadows 5
Brightness 80
Contrast +50
Saturation 15

Detail:

Sharpness 80
Luminance Smoothing 80
Color Noise Reduction 80

Lens:

No adjustments

Curve:

Tone Curve

Input; Output values:

Linear

Calibrate:

Shadow Tint +15
Red Hue +5
Red Saturation +10
Green Hue -17
Green Saturation +10
Blue Hue +1
Blue Saturation +20

Opened in Photoshop CS 2

Cropped
Cloned out dust specs

Exposure
Levels
Curve
Colour balance
Hue / Sat.
Brightness, contrast

Canvas resized by 10px, black
Canvas resized by 50px, white
Resize to 640 * 436
Saved as jpeg, 10 quality, 129Kb

Statistics
Place: 150 out of 262
Avg (all users): 5.1524
Avg (commenters): 5.5000
Avg (participants): 4.9296
Avg (non-participants): 5.2662
Views since voting: 676
Views during voting: 281
Votes: 210
Comments: 6
Favorites: 0

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 Comments Made During the Challenge
02/25/2008 03:19:55 PM
An interesting study good light and focus
 02/25/2008 08:41:37 AM
good focus. good lighting
 02/25/2008 03:07:25 AM
Certainly lines, but as a compositional device are they leading to anything, or are theythe subject in their own right?
 02/21/2008 11:10:21 AM
a bit OOF
 02/20/2008 08:34:45 PM
I like the color and focus on the strings. Would like a little more contrast between the knobs and body. They appear to be floating which is distracting.
 02/19/2008 08:13:47 PM
Nice composition & lighting


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