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Spilling Almonds
Spilling Almonds
darcy


Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Chaos (Advanced Editing I)
Camera: Canon PowerShot G3
Location: Kitchen
Date: Apr 4, 2004
Aperture: 2
ISO: 50
Shutter: 1/15
Galleries: Still Life, Macro
Date Uploaded: Apr 4, 2004

 Took my girlfriend's nig bag of almonds and a small white bowl and started playing. Took lots of variations on this, with different zooms, focal points and depths of field. This one seemed to stand out as the best, but it was slightly arbitrary.

I wonder whether people will complain that this doesn't fit the theme. I think it does - the chaos of how you could spill the same bowl of almonds a million times and they would never spill the same way twice - but we'll see.

I cropped, auto colored, contrast +14 and brightness -14, added border.

Statistics
Place: 28 out of 85
Avg (all users): 5.6552
Avg (commenters): 5.9444
Avg (participants): 5.2545
Avg (non-participants): 5.8403
Views since voting: 1007
Votes: 174
Comments: 18
Favorites: 0

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 Comments Made During the Challenge
04/11/2004 07:52:36 PM
I'd like to see this with a bit wider depth of field, but I still really like this image. Lovely colors and tones, and super point of view.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 04/11/2004 06:46:39 PM
Border distracts, could be thinner.
Think I'll open a bag of almonds, now>
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 04/11/2004 06:46:27 PM
Good depth of field study, but doesn't strike me as chaotic. I would also lose the border.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 04/11/2004 02:44:52 PM
I really don't care for the field of depth with this photo.....I find it very distracting to my eyes....In some ways I do like the border which gives it a feeling of spilling out over the borders which helps convey in a small way the idea of chaos....
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 04/10/2004 11:41:05 PM
This isn't really chaos, but is an interesting picture. The colors are great, the focus decision works (but might have been stronger with a little more DOF). The wire frame didn't work for me, but that is a personal taste, so take that for what it is worth.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 04/10/2004 05:37:16 PM
Beautiful image, meets the challenge, but the border really disturbs me - I won't mark down for that, though.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 04/09/2004 12:35:49 PM
great perspective.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 04/09/2004 11:43:46 AM
I really like this shot but i have to give you some points off because of the border. it is really really distracting, I'm sorry. otherwise its a nice shot. I might have given it higher points for chaos had it been flipped 180 degrees vertically (dont ask me why--id like it that way!)
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 04/08/2004 03:19:37 AM
the frame is distracting imp, otherwise nice.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 04/07/2004 05:56:44 PM
Nice DOF, color is great...not sure I like the frame. 7
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 04/06/2004 02:01:43 PM
Don't like the border.Nuts not in order ,you call it chaos,ok, and I do like the point of view from the bottom up here 6.
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 04/06/2004 10:02:20 AM
Good DOF, good lighting and a high quality image that is appropriate to the challenge. Generally speaking I find borders more distracting in images than helpful and that is true in this case. I would not and did not rate your fine image lower because of it.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 04/06/2004 06:23:18 AM
Nice, but the border is really distracting
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 04/05/2004 10:21:39 AM
Sadly I don't think that this form of very mild disorder could be classed as chaos.
That is something much more formidable, but I wouldn't know how to portray it myself.
 04/05/2004 07:05:41 AM
I think it would be better to have full focus on all of the almonds, lower aperature
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 04/05/2004 01:31:03 AM
Your picture really has a clever idea behind it. Perhaps it might have been a bit better if more of the almonds would have been in focus.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 04/05/2004 01:29:53 AM
Very interesting shot, but I have to take a mark off for that obtrusive border which makes it impossible for me to focus on the photo.
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 04/05/2004 12:22:54 AM
I'd drop the border - not my taste at all. I like the shot though - 8
  Photographer found comment helpful.


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