An avocado in my husband's hands. I love how the seed/pit looks so much like wood. I'm really excited about this entry and think it has the potential to be a new high score for me. I'm eager to watch the scores on this one.
Used a flourescent light above/to the side, as well as an overhead light.
Shot in RAW: changed white balance to daylight.
In P/S:
Rotate
Crop
Curves
Selective color (black)
Brightness/Contrast
Hue/Saturation on everything but the avocado (desat)
Hue/Saturation on yellows in avocado (desat)
Burn
Healed some bright spots
Blur
Resize
Unsharp Mask
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Place: 10 out of 163 Avg (all users): 6.4255 Avg (commenters): 8.1667 Avg (participants): 6.1667 Avg (non-participants): 6.5862 Views since voting: 1970 Views during voting: 288 Votes: 141 Comments: 19 Favorites: 3 (view)
A very nice presentation. The hands look great and so does the avocato. Everything about this image is fine except that I would have maintained the real color of the pit. However, the image has great impact and its qualities are upheld by finishing in the top ten. Congratulations!
The impact of this image is achieved by modifying the textures and the colours in such a way, that they loose touch with reality. I don't see a photographer's work: only that of an illustrator. You are on the wrong path.
Back to comment. Nicely done. Beautiful greens against the nicely textured hands. The lighting is perfect and the shape that the hands make is pleasant. Bumping to 9.
a very nice shot. fantastic detail in the hands and the avocado. I love the texture of the pit. however, this type of shot is fast becomming very cliche on DPC. I won't hold that against you though. 9
What prompted you to turn hands to mono? They must have be more or less in line with the seed colour? It's a very good photo, but I feel the trick takes away from it, rather than enhances.
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