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Challenge: Abstract Food (Advanced Editing IV)
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Camera: Canon PowerShot S2 IS
Location: My basement
Date: Jul 16, 2006
Aperture: 3.5
ISO: 100
Shutter: 2
Galleries: Abstract, Food and Drink
Date Uploaded: Jul 15, 2006

 Idea #7 billion.

It was fun shopping for this challenge. I'd never gone to the store looking for interesting shapes and colors.

At least this cheese was something I originally thought of from the beginning. It has small holes and is called "baby Swiss." I thought the holes might align or misalign and produce interesting shapes of varying brightness when backlit.

I was half right - they align sometimes. :) But the slices were too thick to see the different brightness levels, so I went with just three slices.

I liked the orange color of BeeCee's abstract macro entry: so tried to get there using a flashlight covered with orange tissue paper.

The cheese by itself was missing something. I'm not sure the cherry tomato I added was what it was missing, but that's what I'm going with. :)

This is certainly abstract. And it's, uh, food. Whether it's attractive is another question!

Editing: USM, crop, curves, cloned out some stray spots, resize, save for Web, noise reduction

Outtakes: are either of these better?


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Canon EOS-300D Rebel
Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II
 07/30/2006 11:24:56 PM
From the Critique Club:

I need to preface these comments with the fact that I'm not a huge fan of abstracts. I more of a traditionalist as a photographer. I do get the appeal of this form, it just ain't my cup of tea so to speak. That said...

What I like: I like the repetition of shapes that you have in this image. The overlapping squares and circles give this a neat appearance. I like how you have the wholes in the cheese almost overlapping so that you have different shadings showing through. I like the dark circle in the center of the cheese. I would never have guessed that you added a tomato to give it this effect. I also like the tones that you have achieved.

What I don't like: You said it yourself, it's an abstract, but it isn't all that attractive. This looks more like a study shot to me. You know, the kind of shot that you play around with taking many different snaps just to see what you end up with. As a study it is very interesting. As an abstract, not so much. You have a lot of noise in this. This is probably a limitation of your camera at such a slow shutter speed. In some shots it would help. In this one, I'm not sure that it adds anything. I'm not sure I like the tones that you have achieved. I know this sounds contradictory, but at first I really liked the red's, but after looking at it longer and knowing that it is cheese...

Hope something here is useful.
Yours
TC
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
Apple iPhone 15 Pro
Nikon AF Nikkor 50mm f/1.4D
 07/22/2006 05:29:06 PM
nice idea. i like the translucent swiss.
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Nikon D70
 07/22/2006 01:26:29 AM
yeahhh cheeesy
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Nikon D850
Nikon AF-S Zoom-Nikkor 24-120mm f/3.5-5.6G IF-ED VR
 07/17/2006 10:33:33 PM
Very unique
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XIAOMI Redmi Note 8 Pro
 07/17/2006 08:20:31 PM
Cool... reminds me... I tell it after the challenge over :D 7
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Nikon Coolpix L3
 07/17/2006 02:50:01 PM
CHEEEEEESE! My favorite food.
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Mattel Barbie Photo Designer Digital Camera
 07/17/2006 02:15:40 AM
love this, wish it were cropped so there was no black on the outer edges 7
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Nikon D800
Nikon AF-S NIKKOR 24-70mm f/2.8G ED
 07/17/2006 01:30:49 AM
fantastic idea and well executed for a great result
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