Many many many thanks to those voting & commenting. I'm over the moon about getting a top ten - this is by far my best showing at DPC.
I didn't expect this to do nearly as well, or I would have put the details in prior to submitting!
When I had this idea, I thought this would be a fun family project. My 10 year old son took one look and said "no way"; my daughter was braver but lasted less than a minute: "too mushy." It took me about 4 hours and 6 bags of defrosted peas to make this.
I apologize hugely for the quality. I completely agree with everyone who said that it was too sharp/not sharp enough/pixelated, etc. I took it with a decent camera & lens, so I can't blame my equipment.
I really don't know exactly what went wrong in PP. It looked better before I downsized it, but even then it was sharp in some areas & less sharp in others. I considered not entering it at all, but after all that work ...
Anyway, I'm thrilled. Many thanks again!
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"Patience is a virtue, and [sometimes] is its own reward."
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Patience was a virtue here, and you were rewarded with a top ten in a major Challenge.
Congratulations on the fine idea, well done.
Very good idea but the image is to compressed. It's only 43KB where the maximum size is 150KB. If you look at the other pictures they are almost all 145-150KB.
Oh no! I usually use the "size to" option in CS2 save to web - I wonder if I stuck in "50" instead of "150". That would explain some of the issues. Thanks for catching that.
edited for mistyping - apparently I am prone to that.
Very good idea but the image is to compressed. It's only 43KB where the maximum size is 150KB. If you look at the other pictures they are almost all 145-150KB.
Really nice setup but unfortunately the overall photos quality is poor - there appears to be pixelation and compression artifacts everywhere. If this was a higher quality image it would be a 10 from me, but the low quality is really distracting for me, so a 7
Very cool idea...just the quality is not the best. Looks like its resized badly from small to big. The same in good quality would be one of top pictures.
This is like Magic Eye. What a wonderful idea. I do however wish tht it was clearer. Still, one of the best in the challenge and I am totally blown away by this.
But it's good. I love the concept, I would have maybe liked it more without the pea in the spoon. And if the spoon had been a little darker, as to not be so harsh. But it would be hard to do in these conditions.
someone went through a lot of trouble here! that's a great shot, but there's something in the processing that is spoiling it...not sure if it's oversharpened or just artifacts from processing...8 for the effort
Oh wow! What an elaborate set-up! An amazing amount of work must have gone into this. Outstanding creativity and vision! However, there's some funky pixelisation going on throughout the image. Did you try enlarging this from a smaller file, or perhaps over sharpened...? It's a terrible pity, the distortion takes away from what I'm certain would have been a ribbon contender! Best wishes for the challenge :) 5
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