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Whirl
Whirl
Thomas


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Challenge: Smoke II (Basic Editing)
Camera: Nikon D80
Lens: Nikon AF-S Micro-Nikkor 105mm f/2.8 VR
Location: Home
Date: Oct 29, 2008
Aperture: f18
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/100
Galleries: Abstract, Textures
Date Uploaded: Nov 4, 2008

 Taken at home, in a dark room. Lighting was off-camera flash. It was hard to focus the smoke in the dark, with proper depth of field, light it, and obtain decent results. Then I started to get nice shots, and ultimately it was tough to choose between the outtakes!

Post processing was qiute minimal: raw converting, very little cropping, resize, sharpen.

This was a really interesting and fun challenge, and I surely learned a lot. Really hope it does well!

Statistics
Place: 46 out of 105
Avg (all users): 5.4527
Avg (commenters): 6.7500
Avg (participants): 5.4000
Avg (non-participants): 5.4631
Views since voting: 770
Views during voting: 361
Votes: 243
Comments: 10
Favorites: 0

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 Comments Made During the Challenge
11/10/2008 07:55:46 AM
i like the perfect curly in the smoke near the left
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 11/07/2008 01:05:28 PM
Great shot. 9
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 11/07/2008 07:14:41 AM
I always find myself drawn to curves, and this is no exception. I like the way this one keeps drawing my eye to the smallest whirl near the center.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 11/06/2008 09:57:19 AM
Great smoke shot with some very nice shapes in it. It's just on the borderline of getting chaotic, but still works well for me.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 11/05/2008 05:55:18 PM
Meets Challenge:2
Technicality:2
Interestingness:2
Personal Bias:
TOTAL: 6
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 11/05/2008 10:20:19 AM
Finally, a sharp one! Almost identical to mine, except that mine is negative.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 11/05/2008 06:35:22 AM
Nice colors and comp, good clarity, 6.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 11/04/2008 10:04:03 PM
There are something wrong... I can't find any focus. It's look like randomly croped smokes. I think it wuold be better to make focus in one or few eddies.

Anyway, it's good try ;)
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 11/04/2008 09:47:43 PM
lil to much smoke.. but love the lil tiny swirl on the left
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 11/04/2008 07:36:57 PM
nice design!
  Photographer found comment helpful.


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