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Challenge: Pastels (Advanced Editing IV)
Collection: Challenge Entries
Camera: Canon EOS-300D Rebel
Lens: Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II
Location: My basement
Date: Sep 1, 2006
Aperture: f22
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/3.3
Galleries: Still Life, Macro
Date Uploaded: Sep 2, 2006

 PrismaColor NuPastels (I like having an artist for a daughter, she has some great props).

In my basement with 2000 watts of light from my work lights, aimed in to a little still life box I made from white core board. Shot from a tripod with my 50/1.8 and a 31mm extension tube.

Post - resize; select yellow pastel, hue -136, sat -54, lightness +6, clone/heal along edge of now lavender pastel to get rid of yellow edge; select red pastel, sat -25, lightness +5; slight upward curve to brighten; Master saturation -25; USM (400, .3, 0); cloned out some sensor dust, pastel dust and an imperfection in the paper; added a 2px white stroke.

I don't necessarily like that the tips are chopped off of two of the pastels, but my daughter tells me that it is an "open composition" and that's good, so we'll see. I tried it with a variety of different colored paper as the background, and they looked nice, but I liked this arrangement of the pastels better. It's the first time I ever did a selective color thing. I hope it does well.

Statistics
Place: 73 out of 203
Avg (all users): 5.7784
Avg (commenters): 6.8750
Avg (participants): 5.4265
Avg (non-participants): 5.9829
Views since voting: 1032
Views during voting: 258
Votes: 185
Comments: 9
Favorites: 0

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Pentax K-R
Promaster 28-200mm f/3.8-5.6 XR IF
 09/16/2006 04:51:38 PM
Hello from the Critique Club:

I think the comments you received during the challenge sum up the strong points about your entry pretty well. The colors are wonderful and the lighting and focus are spot on. I think the score you received for this entry is pretty much what might be expected at DPC, as the image is technically strong but lacks a true focal point. Without a strong focal point, the voter’s eyes have nothing to lock upon and thus, wander around the image looking for weaknesses. It is possible you might have scored a little higher if you hadn’t cropped the end of the two of the pastels and maybe even a six plus. Overall, you have a pleasant image to look at and for a Pastel challenge, it is hard to wow anyone.

Tim
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 Comments Made During the Challenge
Canon EOS-5D
Canon EF 50mm f/1.4 USM
 09/07/2006 07:02:15 PM
Nice colours. the background is quite good too. Perhaps just remove the red dust from the lower left pale blue pastel.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Nikon D300
Nikon AF Nikkor 50mm f/1.8
 09/05/2006 09:24:05 PM
Simple, tight composition, good lighting, and absolute adherence to the challenge theme. Lovely crisp sharp focus. Very good entry.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 09/04/2006 03:29:58 PM
Lovely macro, nice detail and colours.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Canon EOS-350D Rebel XT
Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II
 09/04/2006 03:25:57 PM
too bad the end of the purple one is cropped out
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Fujifilm FinePix S5200Z
 09/04/2006 10:47:07 AM
I think this could benefit from a white background
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Olympus E-500 EVOLT
Olympus 40-150mm f/3.5-4.5 Zuiko Digital
 09/04/2006 04:11:17 AM
nice image
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Nikon D80
Nikon AF Zoom-Nikkor 18-135mm f/3.5- 5.6G ED DX
 09/04/2006 02:50:18 AM
I wanna get some of these >.<
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Canon PowerShot SD200
 09/04/2006 01:39:52 AM
great composition! you can really see the texture too.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
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