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I'm Gourd With All This White
I'm Gourd With All This White
giantmike


Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: High Key (Advanced Editing VII)
Camera: Canon EOS-50D
Lens: Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 IS
Location: Madison, WI
Date: Sep 19, 2010
Aperture: 7.1
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/125
Galleries: Food and Drink
Date Uploaded: Sep 19, 2010

 Probably going to end up near the bottom of the pile, but I have no clue how to really do high key well, and this was my best photo of the week. I attempted to do most of the high key effect in camera, then highlight it a bit in post. My setup included a butternut squash on top of a white box with a white sheet as the background. I pointed two lamps with daylight bulbs at the sheet, and attached my 430 EX II to the camera. Then I used a big piece of styrofoam to reflect the flash at the setup to produce an even/soft light.

Post Processing (Aperture):
* Crop
* Increase black point
* Decrease brightness
* Increase contrast and definition a bit
* Increase saturation but decrease vibrancy
* Increase highlights on the gourd to show a little detail (probably a bad idea for this challenge)
* Increase shadows a lot to make the light even softer
* Adjust colors to get rid of some background shadow and bring out the orange in the squash a bit
* Edge sharpen
* Export to 800px

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09/24/2010 11:07:19 AM
that isn't a Gourd!!! It's butternut squash!!!!
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