Editing: Levels, increase saturation small amount, increase contrast +3; noise reduction; resize; unsharp mask; dodge writing on case, burn highlights on rule; sharpen numbers on rule; clone out dust speck on paper; save for web.
This is a pocket size slide rule - it came with a big one that has gotten lost somewhere along the way. I used this in high school 30 something years ago before calculators were invented. The pocket size slide rules were "tres chic" at the time.
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Great choice of low tech! Like the angles and offsets of the grid, sheath and rule. Everything seems balanced well and DOF is deep but nto distracting at all. The lighting has somehow caused the flap on the sheath to appear greenish as opposed to the black of the rest of the leather and this is very distracting. Not sure if that could be fixed with movement of lighting or in post-process. Overall very good image tho.
I certainly do remember them :)
I think that this could have been a bit more dynamic if you would have got in closer so that the marks are more defined - great image nonetheless :)
Try running this through USM with settings of 40%, 60, and 0 (amount, radius, threshold) and see what you think. Makes it 'pop' a bit more in my opinion.
These things amaze me. It blew me away to watch them use slide rules on Apollo 13. The convenient carrying case is a perfect element, as well as the graph paper background. The X shape of your subjects is also linear and mathematical. A great deal of thought went into this shot. I would have liked to see all the shadows eliminated so that it appeared even more clean and polished.
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