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Challenge: Miniature (Basic Editing I)
Camera: Sony DSC-F717
Location: Cellar at home
Date: Aug 2, 2004
Aperture: 4.5
ISO: 100
Shutter: 8 Secs
Galleries: Studio, Floral
Date Uploaded: Aug 3, 2004

 When I first read the challenge, I had this image in my head. I spent the week trying to think where I could get a bonsai tree. On the last day that I could take photos, I still didn't have a tree, so I built one.
I drilled holes in a stick from a plum tree that I found, and inserted twiggs with small leaves .... And Bonsai!!!!
Took a caserol dish, filled it with sand, and covered it with moss.
The lighting was achieved by Painting with a desktop halogen lamp shielded to limit the lighted area.
The only change here is Levels & sharpen.

Statistics
Place: 13 out of 240
Avg (all users): 6.2630
Avg (commenters): 7.4286
Avg (participants): 5.9579
Avg (non-participants): 6.4286
Views since voting: 1335
Views during voting: 380
Votes: 270
Comments: 25
Favorites: 0

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 08/10/2004 11:24:01 PM
Terrific image! Great finish (although I thought it would place higher). Very well conceived and executed shot.
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 08/10/2004 08:29:35 PM
Congratulations on your 13th place finish. A most charming image, almost magical and whimsical.
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 08/10/2004 08:17:42 PM
i liked this one the best ... it has such a zen-quality ... thought it deserved a ribbon ... also pretty good for a fake bonsai ;-)
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
08/10/2004 09:26:56 AM
SO True!
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 08/10/2004 06:30:48 AM
Nice composition. The black background really accentuates the green.
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 08/09/2004 05:08:14 PM
like your lighting
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 08/09/2004 08:35:20 AM
Great concept!
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 08/08/2004 11:10:14 PM
Nice lighting!
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 08/08/2004 07:36:26 PM
beautiful lighting, very dramatic
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 08/08/2004 11:55:24 AM
wow. Beautiful lighting.
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 08/07/2004 05:51:21 PM
Simple, and striking.
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 08/07/2004 07:42:01 AM
Good lighting and color...

I'm sure others will say that you should have cropped more of the black away, but I think it helps with the concept that the plant is desiring to grow...
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 08/07/2004 05:55:57 AM
Great photo. love the composition and lighting - but there is no size reference to tell me this is any smaller than real life, and that's what the challenge is all about. 4
 08/06/2004 08:30:10 PM
great use of black!
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 08/06/2004 06:56:30 AM
Nicely isolated within the frame and nice use of negative space to create more of a sense of the scale. Some might wonder how, with nothing else in the frame, it's obvious that your subject is miniaturised but the size of the leaves compared to trunk/ branches and also the style of the container are both very strongly recognisable to any bonsai fan. 9
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 08/06/2004 05:39:31 AM
Great, lovely colours, great focus 10
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 08/06/2004 01:57:30 AM
Cool! Great lighting and I like how the background is all dark. Very nice idea.
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 08/05/2004 06:45:15 PM
I like the lighting used on this one.
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 08/04/2004 09:51:03 PM
bet you wish you could clone dont you
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 08/04/2004 06:09:24 PM
great composition, and i love the title, too. :)
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 08/04/2004 10:26:31 AM
The Bonsi is a mini tree but I felt you didn't meet the rules of the challenge. There is nothing in the background to compare it too.
 08/04/2004 08:00:17 AM
I was going to enter the same thing...It's real..and a true subject...would have been perfect if the lighting around the bottom of the planter was gone.
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 08/04/2004 06:21:28 AM
I really like the lighting on the little tree. I like this picture a lot.
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 08/04/2004 06:08:37 AM
Would be improved by a reference to establish size.
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 08/04/2004 06:05:07 AM
Doesn't meet the requirements.


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