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Black is checkmated (or clear)
Black is checkmated (or clear)
boyd2000


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Challenge: Brown Ribbon Deja Vu (Advanced Editing VII)
Camera: Canon EOS-400D Rebel XTi
Lens: Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II
Location: Home
Date: Feb 21, 2008
Aperture: 18
ISO: 100
Shutter: 0.6
Galleries: Black and White, Macro
Date Uploaded: Feb 21, 2008

 Single halogen lamp below and right of board
I either got reflection of a cabinet behind or light on the black velvet underneath.
straighten
crop
adjust colors
spot heal white spots
Tribute to Whiterook with pieces pretty much identically positioned. Didn't have black pieces, so original title doesn't fit well.

[post] OK, I moved the board from original location and messed up on the kings row, so black (clear) isn't checkmated after all. Thanks for the suggestions. This was 4.9xxx all week. I thought a bump at the end would bring it over 5.0, but no luck.

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 Comments Made During the Challenge
02/27/2008 11:53:21 AM
Cropping at bottom is odd, I don't like the straight angle on the left and the variances of the squares on the right. Either all 90 degrees of keep things on the angle.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 02/24/2008 09:16:58 PM
hmmmm... i don't think he is
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 02/23/2008 05:56:23 PM
Not yet, unless there is another piece covering the rook
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 02/23/2008 11:21:35 AM
nice take on the original, it must have been hard to get enough lighting on the board without blowing out the pieces, I'm wondering if you could've tried lighting from below the board with a little bit of light from above. the only other nitpicky thing would be that the glass is dusty. I tried messing around with this in photoshop and it has real potential - I would try converting to b&w and using dodge/burn to even out the lighting, and selective highlighting on the squares to get rid of dust, darken black squares and lighten white squares. this is a very good start, good luck in the challenge
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 02/23/2008 11:04:08 AM
Huh? K x R
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 02/22/2008 01:02:15 PM
either way this is a better photo than the original "whiterook" one, tiles look grainy but I think they were made that way, solid would have been better
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 02/21/2008 10:20:29 PM
better than the original, but the perspective looks skewed. from a lower POV you had also avoided some of the distracting reflections
  Photographer found comment helpful.


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