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Challenge: Wheels III (Advanced Editing VII)
Collection: Portfolio
Camera: Canon PowerShot S3 IS
Lens: Canon 12x IS USM (S3 IS built-in Lens) -- 36-432mm (35mm EQ)
Location: Oakland, California, USA
Date: Jul 8, 2014
Aperture: 3.51
ISO: 80
Shutter: 1/13
Date Uploaded: Jul 8, 2014

 In low-ball poker the "worst-ranked" poker hand wins and is called a wheel, and consists of having the lowest five non-matching cards not comprising a straight or flush.

-Tripod, timer, manual mode
-Custom WB
-FL 106.2mm (35m EQ)
-RGB Curve
-Hue/saturation to lighten yellows
-Crop from top and bottom to 3:2 aspect ratio
-Resize
-USM at 12%/48 dia/TH = 0
-USM at 66%/0.6 dia/TH = 5 (applied twice)
-SaveAs JPEG at 100%quality = 281KB

File: LoBallIMG_1552crp-DPCusm

Statistics
Place: 80 out of 81
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Avg (commenters): 2.4000
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Views since voting: 535
Views during voting: 153
Votes: 87
Comments: 5
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Olympus OM-D E-M5 Mark III
Olympus 12-100mm f/4.0 M.Zuiko ED IS PRO
 07/15/2014 11:50:07 PM
I'm not a card player, so I haven't a clue what this has to do with wheels.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 07/15/2014 07:49:23 AM
already voted --- sorry, I don't have much for comments, I do love cards
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Canon EOS R6
Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 L Macro IS USM
 07/13/2014 10:53:35 AM
I don't understand this entry at all.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Canon EOS-400D Rebel XTi
Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6
 07/11/2014 10:12:23 AM
The technique is good, the lightning is good, but since I'm not a card player, I don't see the relation with the Wheel theme.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Canon EOS-40D
Canon EF 28-105mm f/3.5-4.5 USM
07/09/2014 08:24:41 AM
I'm not really a gambler or poker player - but cannot see the relevance to the challenge in this image. Sorry.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
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