Desaturated shot of wet disassembled bicycle gears that i got for free from a local shop, in panties by Victoria's Secret. Water drops made by hand with an eye dropper, that's why they look so unnaturally equal-sized.
Several (3 or 4) brightness/contrast adjustment layers with gradient masks to add hilights and shadows to repeat those of the female body on the original shots. I know the gears still look flat, but then again, they are.
Minor hand dodging and burning to stress the shadows mostly.Nothing extraordinary, really.
I gave up trying to make this look decent both on LCD and CRT, this is made for CRT.
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Place: 3 out of 243 Avg (all users): 6.2546 Avg (commenters): 8.5455 Avg (participants): 6.1513 Avg (non-participants): 6.3355 Views since voting: 5877 Views during voting: 390 Votes: 271 Comments: 31 Favorites: 3 (view)
that should be the first place since it is realy have to do with the subject of the contest...congratulations on the "first " place cuase the first and second winners they have nothing to do with "mechanical"
as atitel
Can't say that the title does anything for me, but didn't vote on the title either.
Nice tone and composition! One of the best of the bunch.
Third round - bumping up ((9))
I would have given this pic a 9 if you had cropped the lacy stuff off the bottom to show JUST the mechanical item. Love the contrasting light and dark though.
My baby's turned into a crunch machine!!
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