For lighting I used a flashlight and used the CD disk in the background to add more light and color. Subject is made up of an egg inside a pink swirled wine glass and a regular CD disk. Dodged, burned, increased contrast, reduced noise, added saturation, cloned out a finger, sharpened, adjusted exposure. Used edge preserving blur and added a star filter.
Disqualification Details
Cloning, dodging, burning, etc. to improve your photo or remove imperfections or minor distracting elements, etc. is acceptable. However, using ANY editing tools to duplicate, CREATE, or move major elements of your photograph is not permitted.
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I hope it wasn't because I cloned out a finger. I thought it was because I used a star filter effect in post processing, which I thought was okay because the star existed, it just wasn't very well defined.
Originally posted by HornOUBet:
According to your description of what you did, I'm not sure why this entry was DQ'ed eggcetera
This is a lovely abstract - had you not put in your comments (and thanks for putting in comments!) what it was, I'd have been hard pressed to guess. Composition is good; colors are excellent. There's a bit of stuff in the lower left that you might wish to clone out.
a very nice image. abstarct, but not unrecognisably so. the main probelems are the flecks of whit on the left side - very distratcting - and the noise. this is one image that doesn't benefit from noise. perhaps either a wider or shallower depth of field - so the cd is either crisp or completely out of focus. right now it looks just - not in focus, unintentionally. the star filter might be a bit distracting too - i'm not sure...
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