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L'orange tordue
L'orange tordue
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Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Color on Color II (Advanced Editing VII*)
Camera: Canon EOS-350D Rebel XT
Lens: Canon EF 75-300mm f/4.0-5.6 III
Location: Home
Date: Feb 23, 2008
Aperture: F11
ISO: 100
Shutter: 2 seconds
Galleries: Still Life, Food and Drink
Date Uploaded: Feb 24, 2008

 I was inspired by Montague's terrific "Variable Geometry" entry in the last "Color on Color" challenge. That photo got me thinking about shapes and fruit....

The title is French for "Twisted Orange". :)

Post-processing:
- conversion from RAW
- cropping
- curves
- gradient filter
- cloning out thread and minor imperfections
- unsharp mask
- border
- size for web

----------- Post Challenge

Thanks to all who made comments. For those who are curious, the orange is suspended with two fine threads. The weight of the bottom pulled apart the rings unevenly, and although I tried, I didn't have much luck in evening out the spread of the rings.

Statistics
Place: 22 out of 185
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Avg (commenters): 6.9167
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Views since voting: 1724
Views during voting: 408
Votes: 269
Comments: 12
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
03/03/2008 06:53:46 PM
I like the idea and the off-centre composition (with gradient to balance). The anal-retentive part of me would like to see even helical spacing on the orange peel, but then again, I don't have to rig the strings and weights to accomplish that... ;-)

The focus on the texture of the outer peel seems just a little soft. Perhaps you need to adjust your sharpening settings in your post-production phase?
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 03/03/2008 06:09:33 AM
I keep coming back to this shot, wondering how did you manage to get it stretched and hanging like that. Looking forward to reading your setup.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 03/01/2008 10:25:12 AM
This is interesting and fun
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 02/29/2008 12:44:19 PM
nice movement created with the peel
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 02/29/2008 09:41:44 AM
Nice effect. I like the orange and you have good details in the peel.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 02/29/2008 05:07:47 AM
I like ohow the orange peel isn't centered and how it's semi floating/ was dropped and how the light focus is on the orange peel.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 02/28/2008 04:56:14 AM
A nice idea.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 02/28/2008 12:41:18 AM
Very nice Idea. nice lighting.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 02/27/2008 04:56:53 PM
interesting.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 02/27/2008 05:14:49 AM
Very creative shot.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 02/27/2008 03:35:56 AM
The orange has escaped.
like it.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 02/26/2008 10:57:23 PM
Cool, a litte bit of saturation would be nice. 7
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