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Happy Birthday - Better With Age
Happy Birthday - Better With Age
Brenb


Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Greeting Cards (Advanced Editing IV)
Camera: Canon EOS-10D
Lens: Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II
Location: My house
Date: Sep 22, 2005
Aperture: 2.8
ISO: 400
Shutter: 1/90
Galleries: Still Life, Black and White
Date Uploaded: Sep 25, 2005

 Converted to black/white with channel mixer
slightly softened with neat image
cropped
sharpened

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Canon EOS-1D X
Canon EF 300mm f/2.8 L IS USM
 10/08/2005 08:32:01 AM
this is a great idea for a shot. i think you probably could have seen a half to a full point improvement if you'd had a bit more light so that there would be more contrast between the subject and the background, and if you'd had opened up to about 5.6. that lens is so perfect for portraits, where you want a short dof, but for something like this, you'd want everything to be 'dpc-sharp'. keep it up!
Nikon D7000
Nikon AF-S DX NIKKOR 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6G ED VR II
 10/03/2005 11:38:05 AM
Hi, Bren! I'm glad to see that you're getting back into the swing of things, and glad to hear your life is settling down now. Hope your business plans with your husband are working out, too. I also needed to take a break from entering challenges this summer, it's just too busy a time around here. Anyway, I look forward to seeing you around the site and to your coming entries. Good luck! :)
 Comments Made During the Challenge
Nikon D90
Nikon AF-S Zoom-Nikkor 70-300mm f/4.5-5.6G IF-ED VR
 09/30/2005 07:05:48 PM
Really like the B&W...I wish it was a tad sharper.
Canon EOS-30D
Tamron SP AF 28-75mm f/2.8 XR Di for Canon
 09/30/2005 11:45:29 AM
Potentially a good shot. DOF seems a little shallow though.
Nikon D3
Tamron SP AF 17-50mm f/2.8 Di II LD Aspherical (IF) for Nikon
 09/27/2005 05:12:36 PM
I like the idea. The bottle kind of fades into the dark background, so the detail is lost. This may have been intentional, but I think more detail may have made it stand out a little more.
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