Don't know much about still life but looking at past challenges and other stuff online I figured I at least produced something that could pass off as that. What I was trying to do was to capture an early morning scene with the glass a symbol of the night before. Not sure how well that translated.
Editing:
- Curves
- Hue/Saturation
- Selective color
- Shadow/Highlights
- USM (local contrast technique)
- Noise Ninja
- Smart Sharpen
- Convert to Grayscale
- Convert to Duotone
- Convert to RGB
- Save for web
*Post*
This is pretty cool. A new personal best in placing. Thank you to everyone who thought kindly of this.
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Place: 4 out of 338 Avg (all users): 6.5679 Avg (commenters): 7.7895 Avg (participants): 6.1087 Avg (non-participants): 6.8477 Views since voting: 3328 Views during voting: 339 Votes: 243 Comments: 38 Favorites: 4 (view)
The great tonality in this shot just shouts, sir.
Very clean, almost sterile.
Kudos for the "spicy" background not being distracting BUT enhancing. Amazing clarity and detail. Another great job, sir.
First Impression When I see this during the voting, I said WOW!!!!One of my pick for the ribbon. Glad to see it came so close.
Composition: Very good composition.
Subject: I really like the subject. Not usual subject for the "Still Life". Very creative, I am glad that DPC didnot turn this down just because it's out of the box.
Technical (Colour and light): Perfect, can't be better. The ligting, exposure, colors, sharpness, softness everything is spot on. You achieved this with basic editing...Wonderful.
Improvement: Sorry, can't think of any.
Summary: Wonderful image, definately having the WOW factor.
Congratulations on your 4th place. Go and get the ribbon. Best of luck...
CTCP2 Gunnsi First impression: Pure, crisp, bright, lovely duotone image.
What can you do better?:
Well you lucky skunk :-), again in the top 10 and now in the top 5.
Almost a ribbon!!!
The only thing I see is a tiny water drop on the side of the glass. Dry it off :-)
Nice clarity, good color, good light - easy to see why this scored so well. Congrats! I did not get the "night before" connotation. Possibly because the bed looks too neat. The background is a little busy, so I find myself wanting to look beyond the glasses more than I want to look at the glasses themselves.
First Impression: Congrats for your best placing. WOW a 4th is a great thing. I've never achieved even a top ten... Great image.
Composition: Very good. The glass and the jug aren't centered, what helps the comp.
Subject: Nice election of the subject for this challenge. I'm not sure about the glass as a symbol of the night, but is a nice subject anyway.
Technical: absolutely perfect focus and use of DOF, with the subject in sharp focus and the BG blurred but not very much. The tonality of the image is great, love it so much...
Improvement: we're in the group for learning, so even in this image I must find flaws...LOL. Well, sorry if I seem fussy, but the borders of the glass and the jug are a bit oversharpened (a small halo on top) and there are some drops on the left of the glass.
Summary: Really great image almost flawless.
I don't know about the glass from the night before part, but this is an exceptionally clean, well-balanced, and intriguing picture. Love the tones. Congrats on a new personal best - well deserved with this image!
This is a nice clean shot, with a very elegant look to it. The color tone is great, as is the lighting. I kind of like the way my eye keeps jumping to the background and then coming back to the glass. I'm having a hard time thinking of improvements.
Great job!
This is very attractive. I love the soft warm browns and the excellent focus on the glasses that you achieved. Good choice on the glass & the vase...great shapes and it's nice that you didn't choose two matching pieces.
Clean to the point of being surgical. Beautiful toning job. Unusual to include so many background elements but your foreground subject pair seem strong enough to carry it off. 8.
I'd be very suprised if this one didn't win. The colour and lighting of the scene is excellent with great depth of field. But above all that, the reflections are the piece de resistance. The only tiny, slightly annoying thing is the really small droplet that is to the left of the reflection of the picture in the glass. Almost unavaoidable though so I'll give you a nice round 10!
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