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A Breitling Instrument for Professionals of Course!
A Breitling Instrument for Professionals of Course!
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Challenge: All I Want for Christmas (Advanced Editing VII)
Camera: Nikon D300
Lens: Nikon AF Nikkor 50mm f/1.8
Location: Melbourne Australia
Date: Dec 22, 2008
Aperture: F2.8
ISO: 800
Shutter: 1/50
Galleries: Fashion, Advertisement
Date Uploaded: Dec 21, 2008

 The Image: I fell in love with watches at Koh Samui and bought a few replicas. I REALLY fell in love with the Omega watch and found an advertisement for the Omega Seamaster 'Quantum of Solace' limited edition watch. I decided to use my Breitling Replica to do a similar image as the Omega ad. Happy with the result...

The Edit: Just the basic stuff...USM, a Gaussian Blur adjustment layer and mask, some selective sharpening, a black and white adjustment layer to reveal the colour face and a little bit of colour on the band (I wanted the rest of the image to be black and white)...some contrast, some levels adjustment...

The prediction: Haven't been travelling well, so I am going to hope to get a 6 for this. I think the black negative space will be the subject of discussion perhaps...

Post: Oh well...

Statistics
Place: 19 out of 89
Avg (all users): 6.1131
Avg (commenters): 7.1538
Avg (participants): 5.7500
Avg (non-participants): 6.2419
Views since voting: 1494
Views during voting: 340
Votes: 168
Comments: 14
Favorites: 0

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 01/01/2009 12:16:50 AM
I think this was under-rated Enzo (I gave it a 7), but I find the slightly soft focus on parts of the face distracting. I'm sure it would have scored better if you had taken a few separate shots with different points of focus and combined them in post to increase the DOF on the face of the watch (like Scarbrd did on image ).
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
12/28/2008 10:19:10 AM
Outstanding product shot!
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 12/28/2008 08:30:59 AM
Good crips focus, nicely lit.
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 12/27/2008 09:11:06 AM
well lightened and shot, very good detail. the OOF foreground sklightly distracts; i feel there's a bit too much negative space at top.
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 12/27/2008 06:07:55 AM
I like that this almost looks like B&W but then you see the little hint of red and gold...
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 12/26/2008 10:03:54 PM
Nice comp - I like all that negative space.
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 12/23/2008 11:13:34 AM
Great lighting and tack sharp!
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 12/23/2008 10:13:29 AM
GREAT product shot. Perfect use of dof and lighting, the tilt adds some interest, no question where the focal point is.
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 12/22/2008 09:45:04 AM
Very well photographed, looks expensive.
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 12/22/2008 09:35:16 AM
MMM nice. The textured surface works well. Nice job.
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 12/22/2008 03:40:32 AM
great job on the detail and exposure. i think a little too much negative space on top though.
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 12/22/2008 02:44:27 AM
there isn't a good sharpness on the watch.
 12/21/2008 11:06:07 PM
Now wer're talking lol
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 12/21/2008 07:42:30 PM
Nice. Looks worthy of a high end fashion magazine ad.
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