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The many facets of Carbon - C
The many facets of Carbon - C
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Challenge: Periodic Table (Advanced Editing VII*)
Camera: Canon EOS-350D Rebel XT
Date: Nov 8, 2008
Aperture: 5.6
ISO: 400
Shutter: 1/400
Galleries: Macro
Date Uploaded: Nov 9, 2008

 Diamonds and coal
Shot in a light tent with white led lighting and a combination of florescent and tungsten.
They are little gits to manage to balance on the coal and I never realised how much dust coal generates by just being there!

Converted from RAW, adjusted the brightness slightly as was a bit dark, cropped to removed extra stones and mirror, removed a couple of dust spots from the mirror, resized and sharpened.

After Challenge..
30th isnt too bad I dont think, least im heading upwards! Thanks for all the comments they are always appreciated.
I have been wanting to shoot diamonds for a while now and this was the perfect excuse to go and distupt my dads workshop for the day & rummage in al his shiney gems and take photos of them & also the diamond photos for the challenge.
Didnt realise gems were this difficult to shoot and I still need to practice more with shots on mirrors as the background colour never come out the way I want it to.

Statistics
Place: 30 out of 102
Avg (all users): 5.7610
Avg (commenters): 6.1111
Avg (participants): 5.5909
Avg (non-participants): 5.8261
Views since voting: 831
Views during voting: 314
Votes: 159
Comments: 11
Favorites: 0

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 11/17/2008 07:29:17 PM
Enjoy the coal/diamond - dark/light - 7
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
11/15/2008 01:15:48 PM
I love the concept, but I'm not sure the focus and lighting work for me. I can't put my finger on exactly why, but the extremely shallow DoF might be the culprit. I really love the OoF diamonds in the lower left though! They just look cool!
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 11/14/2008 03:54:44 PM
nice catch!
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 11/14/2008 02:47:46 PM
Nice rocks!!
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 11/14/2008 12:32:55 AM
Ok, here's my cc :)

The contrast of the black coal against the shiny sparkly diamonds is great. There are a couple of things that bother me a little, the grey background is a little, well, grey! Maybe a crisp white background may have worked a little better.

The oof diamonds at the bottom left draw my eye a bit, though I am not a big fan of foreground bokeh, personally I'd have probably left them out of the shot. I do really like the angle they are at though so maybe just a larger dof (though I guess you used the macro tube) to keep them sharper and maybe not cutting any of the diamond off.
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 11/13/2008 10:16:32 AM
nice picture
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 11/12/2008 10:46:04 AM
An ok composition but maybe slightly tight crop. The two 'diamonds' on the left facing same direction should not have been there as it just makes it look messy.
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 11/12/2008 04:57:13 AM
Where's the nanotube or buckyball? Nice picture
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 11/11/2008 01:54:49 PM
Lovely comparison. 9
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 11/11/2008 11:39:58 AM
Wow...to have that many! It's so difficult to get a shot like this, isn't it?
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 11/11/2008 06:22:25 AM
Hi Janna! I think this is an excellent shot for the challenge. Nicely thought out, well laid out, good use of the elements, and a great title for the shot as well. I like the out of focus diamonds in the foreground, but there are some voters that don't like anything blurred - can't please 'em all. The only techical nits I can find are the sections of too-bright reflection on the three prominent diamonds, particularly the top one. You'll have to ask after the challenge, but I think in advanced you could have cloned a bit to reduce that blown out section. It's terribly hard to avoid bright spots on diamonds because of the facets - at least one is going to be facing a light source in some way - that's what makes them sparkle, after all. The only other thing I can think of is maybe making the background a less dullish color. Blue or white would be good. All in all, I think you did a great job with this!
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