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Challenge: One Becomes Two (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: Aug 3, 2014
Aperture: 3.51
ISO: 80
Shutter: 1/2 second
Date Uploaded: Aug 3, 2014

 One hand becommes two in this move of dubious advisability when playing Blackjack (or Twenty-One) in a casino, unless one is skilled at counting cards.

-Handheld, manual mode
-FL 75.6mm (35mm EQ)
-Rear-curtain flash at 1/3 power
-Clone-out small background bit in upper=left
-Slight RGB Curve adjustment to lighten whites
-Resize
-USM at 88%/0.8 dia/TH = 5 (applied three times)
-SaveAs JPEG at quality 10/10 = 201KB

File: Tens_IMG_1710-DPCusm

Statistics
Place: 60 out of 64
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Avg (commenters): 6.5000
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Views since voting: 529
Views during voting: 133
Votes: 62
Comments: 2
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Nikon D5000
Nikon AF-S DX Zoom Nikkor 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6G VR
 08/10/2014 05:06:10 PM
Love your concept, but wish there was a bit less motion here and that something was in better focus.
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Nikon D800
Lomography Petzval 85mm F2.2 MF
 08/07/2014 05:39:04 PM
Hope you're splitting them against a 6, otherwise you're nuts :) Great idea for the challenge.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
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