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First Aid
First Aid
giantmike


Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Stock Photos: Medicine (Advanced Editing VII*)
Camera: Canon EOS-50D
Lens: Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II
Location: Madison, WI
Date: Jul 31, 2010
Aperture: 11
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/60
Galleries: Studio, Advertisement
Date Uploaded: Aug 1, 2010

 I went through a lot of options before settling on this one. I was going to try to do an Alka-Seltzer style shot, but then realized this was stock and not advertisement. So then I got out my first aid kit, and was playing around with some setups. It was ok, but a bit busy. Finally, I thought of this simple, yet effective (hopefully) image.

Setup is in my light tent. The background/bottom is a white cloth, which definitely isn't as clean as a white poster-board (I need to pick one of those up). I had two lights (one on each side) and the flash pointed backwards with a big piece of white styrofoam to reflect it back to the subject.

Post Processing (Aperture):
* Cropped
* White Balance
* Increase exposure
* Increase black point
* Increase brightness
* Increase contrast
* Increase definition
* Increase saturation
* Levels
* Dodged background
* Repaired/cloned a few places
* Desaturated scissors to return original silver color
* Sharpened overall
* Sharpened scissors
* Export
* Resize - Graphic Converter
* Colorize background (white) to remove some cloth texture - Pixelmator
* Colorize background (light blue) to make subjects pop - Pixelmator
* Unsharp mask (large radius to add contrast) - Pixelmator

Statistics
Place: 38 out of 67
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Views during voting: 287
Votes: 189
Comments: 5
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
08/10/2010 07:52:03 AM
nice layout
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 08/07/2010 04:24:38 AM
Not sure about the background colour. Could see it being used by a company though. Clean and sharp. 9
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 08/04/2010 09:22:03 PM
Definitely looks like a stock photo. I can see this one ending up on the front page.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 08/04/2010 07:29:51 PM
all you are missing is a bandaid! nice job and one of a kind (for this challenge!) (7)
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 08/04/2010 03:05:48 PM
the softness of the edges makes this feel a bit cut out from the background
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