A simple emphasis on color as an element of design.
The background was a blue posterboard illuminated by blue light sitting behind the pepper. A desk lamp on the left side of the pepper bounced off light onto a white paper to light the front of the pepper.
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Post processing: levels, color adjustment, curves, minimal cloning, crop, resize, Neat Image, USM, border.
Sigma 105mm f2.8 EX macro
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Now some people miss the point altogether when they lock into a style and believe that expression is limited in others. Here is a studio shot that that is more moving than anything else in this contest. It does for the aesthetic senses what ambrosia does for the gods. It arouses the tactile senses and this is a feat that can not be accomplished without superb technique. The near perfection in this image and the sense of beauty it invokes deserves its place at the very top.
Not many are capable of achieving such beauty. My guess is EddieG
Yes, there are many that will say, really, what about the other emotive studies? My reply is look at the image and tell me that you do not feel the texture 'neath your fingers and were your senses not dazzled by the color. Show me how many images can capture your fancy so? This can hang in a Museum. Fonal consideration 8
I really like what you did here. You made this look much more interesting that it could be. The contrast of colors, the sharpness and the composition are perfect! I like you post all the details (including lens and focal lenght). 10 from me
Pepper comes in many colours. Use it :) Or... why not to show whole pepper. It's shape is intersting, and the light will bring out different shades of red.
It's a great pic...but it's a pepper. I've seen sooo many peppers. I do think the RGB idea was great....but my god....another pepper? I gave you a 6 based on technical merit and capture. The subject matter, unfortunately, is too cliche for my taste.
This is simply a well taken still life. Colors, sharpness, positioning, lighting and DOF are right on. The only negative in comparison with some of the other shots is that it is not terribly original or interesting but I don't think you were going for that. I think you were just trying to take the best technically possible shot you could and you have succeeded.
A technically perfect image with great primary colors, composition and lighting. A good specimen as well. It unfortunately fails to touch me emotionally like some other good images in this challenge do, which is why it ends up a bit lower in my ranking.
To be honest, this falls flat for me... I think it might be the lighting and the blue background...but there isn't real contrast here, though it's GOOD, it just doesn't have that oommppph. Thanks, though!
Amazing details! One can almost feel the smooth texture of the pepper. Lighting is also very good with nice tones and gradations in color and light. 10
Wow, very striking. I love the blue and red, the green could do with being a bit more vibrant. The thing that really puts me off is the glare... could you have sorted this with a polariser? Wonderful composition. 7
This is a wonderful detail study with poor timing after allt he food in the wacky food challenge. It really seems too simplistic for the masters challenge in my opinion, but very well taken, and beautiful color. 7.
Magnificent capture. The blue background is a perfect choice. The pepper looks almost as if you had waxed it. Not a speck of dust or any other distracting elements. A beautiful, simple, and very profound shot. One of my top picks for this challenge.
I never know what to think about the highlights at 100%. The one at the top is a little distracting and the others seem fine to me. Everything else is perfect.
Very nice lighting to bring out the nicely (but not overly) saturated colors. Great detail in the skin of the pepper as you can almost see the striations. Very sharp photo! 8
Beautiful vibrant colours and texture here you have done a wonderful job
Simple and very effective
I feel I could almost pick it up it looks so good and I am not a lover of peppers
Great work Good Luck!
Bright, flashey,colorful, well executed shot. This is thechnically near perfect (looks a bit oversharpened), but has little interest for me. I am sure it has its place (advertisement, food service industry, etc. but just not my most liked type of shot. 7
This is a great image. The texture in the stem and the fine detail in the pepper show that there's more to even the simplest objects. Good choice of background color, too. 8
Technically, a beautifully taken image. Lighting - excellent, colours - excellent, composition - excellent. The only reason it isn't scoring higher is that it doesn't reach me on any emotional level. It's not an image I would want to come back to and view again and again and that's down to lack of interest in the subject. 7 (//www.dpchallenge.com/forum.php?action=read&FORUM_THREAD_ID=129433)
Great interpretation on the classic RGB theme. The curves on the pepper are luxurious. There seems to be a bit of a lighting halo around the pepper and off in the lower left which seems to disturb the consistency of the blue backdrop. The brownish bit on the end of the stem is a bit distracting as well... perhaps trimming it a bit would have made the green seem even more pure. Great lighting and color saturation.
Just jumps out at you among all of the entries. Incredible color and focus. I like everything about this one including the simple and yet effective border. Wonderful job!
Love the complementary color thing going on. Too bad about the harsh lighting on the pepper, did you diffuse at all? The blue background.. I can't figure out if I like it or not. It's definitely a nice change from white or black.
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