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The Lazy Spinner
The Lazy Spinner
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Challenge: The Brothers Grimm (Advanced Editing VII)
Collection: Portfolio
Camera: Canon PowerShot S3 IS
Location: Oakland, California, USA
Date: Oct 5, 2008
Aperture: 3.51
ISO: 800
Shutter: 1/60
Galleries: Humorous, Vintage
Date Uploaded: Oct 5, 2008

 Link to story: The Lazy Spinner

Drop-spindle and unspun wool, Isaac's feet and a wooden chair. Extreme grain/noise from lousy high-ISO performance of this (type of) camera; tried to use it to make an aged-looking image.

-Handheld, TV mode
-Copied Green Channel to new Grayscale document
-Convert to RGB mode
-RGB Curve
-Blue/Yellow curve
-Created selection/mask for back wall
-Duplicated BG layer, loaded "wall" mask, Gaussian Blur
-Created Selections/masks for rflective areas on chair
-Applied RGB Curve through mask to tone down reflections
-RGB Curve to darken a bit overall
-Resize
-USM at 88%/1.3 dia/TH = 7
-SaveAs JPEG at quality 9/10 = 164KB

Resized original:

Statistics
Place: 62 out of 82
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Views since voting: 1942
Views during voting: 364
Votes: 194
Comments: 6
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
10/12/2008 04:56:46 PM
The composition is good, overall the photo is too grainy though, maybe not shot in the best light.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 10/12/2008 03:41:16 PM
Nice aged effect. Works well for this challenge.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 10/12/2008 03:33:21 PM
rather etch like image - a bit subtle for the dpc crowd but it works pretty well here
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 10/06/2008 07:35:50 PM
LOL....really cute and clever! Seems a bit grainy...but, perhaps, that was your intention?
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 10/06/2008 03:30:02 PM
I like the old time feel to this one.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 10/05/2008 11:16:23 PM
Nice old style effect...
  Photographer found comment helpful.


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