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Market Twisters
Market Twisters
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Challenge: Gold (Advanced Editing IV)
Camera: Canon EOS-20D
Lens: Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8 L USM
Location: Market at Kirkland, near Seattle, WA.
Date: Jul 20, 2006
Aperture: f/2.8
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/1600
Galleries: Urban
Date Uploaded: Jul 20, 2006

 I did a bit more editing than usual to this one:
Crop, curves, increased saturation on the balls (a LOT), changed hue so the spirals were a bit more gold rather than copper looking, masked the background. A bit of burning on some distracting highlights, some very minor cloning, resized, a touch of sharpening, save for web.
Thank heavens for advanced editing.

I bet a few people will think the background is too busy, but I really like the busy market feel.

Statistics
Place: 194 out of 296
Avg (all users): 5.0168
Avg (commenters): 5.2500
Avg (participants): 4.8807
Avg (non-participants): 5.2286
Views since voting: 704
Views during voting: 246
Votes: 179
Comments: 4
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Nikon D200
Nikon AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor 18-70mm f/3.5-4.5G IF-ED
 07/24/2006 07:26:04 PM
very beautiful subjects, i found the background distracting. Could have won with a different background
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Pentax K10D
Pentax DA 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 AF
 07/24/2006 02:42:50 PM
Hope you don't get graded too harshly for your subject, but I think that's actually brass instead of gold. It is a very nice photo none-the-less.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Fujifilm FinePix S3100
 07/24/2006 08:25:05 AM
seems more brassy then gold.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Canon PowerShot S50
 07/24/2006 12:55:45 AM
Great Job!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
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