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Challenge: Artificial Lighting (Basic Editing)
Collection: 2009 Challenges
Camera: Nikon D80
Lens: Nikon AF Nikkor 50mm f/1.8D
Location: Home
Date: Oct 13, 2009
Aperture: f/8
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/60 sec
Galleries: Still Life
Date Uploaded: Oct 13, 2009

 Wine glass cliche' shot. Backlit from below background. Glasses sitting on a piece of clear glass with a white foamboard underneath. Dark blue foamboard background about 18 inches behind glasses. Both sides and top enclosed with black foamboard. Wish I could have figured out how to eliminate the light glow right above the liquid level. Maybe a different camera angle would have done it, but ran out of time to experiment. Hope the voters don't focus on that flaw :)

Adjusted white balance in ACR.
Import to PSE6
Straighten
Crop
Noise Ninja
USM (10% R60 T0)
Levels layer
Color curves
Hue/Sat layer
Cloned out 6 sensor dust spots
Noise Ninja
Flatten
Resize & sharpen
Add border
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Statistics
Place: 19 out of 111
Avg (all users): 6.0882
Avg (commenters): 7.3000
Avg (participants): 5.9773
Avg (non-participants): 6.1188
Views since voting: 1325
Views during voting: 344
Votes: 204
Comments: 10
Favorites: 1 (view)

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 Comments Made During the Challenge
10/18/2009 11:29:17 PM
Best out of best
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 10/16/2009 01:10:21 PM
Good arrangement and composition.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 10/15/2009 05:10:49 PM
ok
 10/15/2009 03:52:26 AM
lovely composition, but not close to the theme
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 10/15/2009 01:05:08 AM
nice idea done well I love the blue feeling in this photo, 10
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 10/14/2009 07:36:31 PM
Perfect exposure, and I love the colors.
Since you have the upright glass partialy filled, you should adjust your composition a bit. If you were to pull both glasses toward the camera the blue table would make it look like the upside down glass was filled to the same amount.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 10/14/2009 02:39:26 PM
Commonly photographed object on DPC. But excellent execution, great control over light and flawles under Basic processing boundries. 9
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 10/14/2009 08:29:16 AM
It's a really clever shot that is really, really well lit. But to get top marks it would need to give me a sense of what and where that lighting was in order to fulfill the challenge.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 10/14/2009 05:30:59 AM
light source?
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 10/13/2009 08:27:49 PM
nice job on the lighting and great colour. 8
  Photographer found comment helpful.


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