Images of a box of Bahia Gold churchill cigars. Auto-white balance and black-and-white conversion in Adobe Lightroom beta v4.1. I think that the b+w conversion was rushed, and the output looked a little gray. A thin black border would have helped, but the version submitted was ready at 23:59 and the one with the border was ready at 00:00 and missed the cutoff :-( i think that would have bought i another 0.1 or so... a better b+w conversion would have gotten a few more tenths. One big problem is that I didn't keep the foreground out-of-focus enough to look intentional (oh, for a new lens...). First, though, I need a better lighting setup.
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and some outtakes:
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On theme, I'd rather see a hand/arm offering the box. These could just be on a shelf in a store. They look like expensive cigars, which IS appropriate!
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