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Ne 20.180
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Challenge: Neon (Basic Editing I)
Camera: Canon PowerShot G3
Location: Office
Date: Aug 17, 2004
Aperture: F/4
ISO: 50
Shutter: 1/200
Galleries: Science and Technology
Date Uploaded: Aug 17, 2004

 I pretty much had this idea from the get go. I printed out an enlarged section of a periodic table. I then used a highlighter to color in the neon element square. This was a bit tricky because if I wasn't carefull the highlighter would smear.

Post Processing:
Crop
Auto Leves,Contrast,Color
Then I played with
Hue/Saturation
Levels
Color Balance
Curves
Brightness/Contrast
to get the effect that I wanted. The effect was that the neon yellow really stood out more from the background, this proved harder than I thought originally but I am happy with the results.

Statistics
Place: 44 out of 222
Avg (all users): 5.5786
Avg (commenters): 6.0000
Avg (participants): 5.1161
Avg (non-participants): 5.8556
Views since voting: 1313
Views during voting: 414
Votes: 299
Comments: 19
Favorites: 0

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 Comments Made During the Challenge
08/24/2004 07:45:09 PM
Creative, well done idea for the challenge.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 08/24/2004 05:07:26 PM
boring. and you colored slightly out of the lines at the bottom left. 2
 08/24/2004 08:08:51 AM
it's neon
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 08/21/2004 09:48:16 PM
Love it.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 08/21/2004 12:36:40 PM
clever idea and well executed ... high on originality
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 08/20/2004 08:18:53 AM
Simple yet great DOF, like the angle and crop
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 08/19/2004 05:50:46 AM
looks like the focus on "Ne" was a little off.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 08/19/2004 04:16:40 AM
Different!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 08/18/2004 08:31:38 PM
Very Creative!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 08/18/2004 07:12:46 PM
Simple but effective, well directed focus. This would make a good stock shot.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 08/18/2004 06:03:15 PM
Heh, Science is cool, and original!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 08/18/2004 01:32:51 PM
simple neat idea conveying neon - nice
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 08/18/2004 12:45:04 PM
Very unique take on this challenge. Hitting the Periodic Table of Elements is an excellent choice. I also like the use of the highlighter to bring out the subject.

Great shot, nice DOF use as well.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 08/18/2004 09:12:35 AM
cool concept- i thought of doing that also
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 08/18/2004 05:54:07 AM
Looks like the only image with an elements chart. I expected to see more. The highlighter came out well.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 08/18/2004 05:31:47 AM
Clever
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 08/18/2004 04:56:15 AM
none
 08/17/2004 11:46:24 PM
Neat idea.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 08/17/2004 11:26:52 PM
lesson in chemistry - this is not good
  Photographer found comment helpful.


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