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Challenge: Bits & Pieces (Basic Editing III)
Camera: Canon EOS-350D Rebel XT
Lens: Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 II
Location: Backyard
Date: Jul 26, 2006
Aperture: f22
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/4 sec
Galleries: Still Life, Textures
Date Uploaded: Jul 27, 2006

 Grabbed a handful of nuts and bolts that had spent the summer outside on some old shelves. Put them on an old bbq we're ready to throw out on the weathered wood, setup and snapped away! Post-processing was essentially crop, hue/saturation adjustment, brightness/contrast, levels, curves, ran through neat image, than finished it off with an unsharp mask.

I am pretty sure this does not break the rules of basic editing, I couldn\'t find for sure if it did, but I am worried that applying unsharp mask after neat image might be a violation since unsharp mask is technically a filter.

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Canon EOS-7D
Canon EF 24-105mm f/4.0 L IS
 08/26/2006 01:59:36 AM
I gave this one a 6 in what I felt was a low scoring challenge - so that may translate to a 7 or so normally :)

I like the DOF and the nuts in the foreground have a lot of interest to them. Where I think the faults are in this image are the slanted horizon and also the way the line of nuts leads me to the OOF pile at the back. If the line lead me in a curve it may be more appealling than the stright line that seems to take me to the top-right whereas the pile is more in the top-left.
 Comments Made During the Challenge
Fujifilm FinePix S3100
 08/04/2006 09:08:54 AM
Like the contrast of silver and rust.
Nice depth of field and textures.
Nikon D40X
Nikon AF-S DX Zoom Nikkor 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6G ED II
 08/03/2006 03:23:58 PM
great job
Fujifilm FinePix S5700
08/02/2006 01:35:07 PM
I love your use of back and foreground
Canon EOS-5D
Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8 L USM
 08/02/2006 02:45:55 AM
really well handled dof. bst nut/bolt picture i've ever seen!
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