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lynnmarie


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Challenge: Centered Composition II (Advanced Editing V*)
Camera: Canon PowerShot G2
Location: at home
Date: Jan 1, 2007
Aperture: f8.0
ISO: 50
Shutter: 1.6
Galleries: Advertisement, Food and Drink
Date Uploaded: Jan 2, 2007

 Popcorn is my FAVORITE food.

Staged this in my little homemade cardboard lightbox. I suspended one piece of popcorn above the box with a red thread. I moved another piece of popcorn (also strung on a thread) in a downward motion, starting from behind the suspended piece. No one in my house really wanted to help me with this (can't blame them), so I used the timer on my camera. It was quite difficult to get the lighting right with the long shutter speed, without blowing out the highlights on the popcorn.

This probably won't do as well as my plate of macaroni entry, but I wanted to see if I could pull this off. This was the best of about 100 shots.

Post-processing: rotate to straighten box, selective adjustments in levels, shadows/highlights, sharpen, crop, brightness/contrast, hue/saturation, added a background layer with a gradient set to slightly darken the upper region, cloned out a few specks in the background as well the red thread used to suspend the popcorn, dodge/burn, a couple of light passes of USM, reduce file size, add border, save for web.

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Olympus PEN E-P3
Konica Minolta MF 85mm f/1.7
 01/11/2007 01:13:18 AM
way to be creative. very nice.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
Canon PowerShot SD780
01/09/2007 04:49:51 PM
One of my top 3. "10"
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Olympus OM-D E-M1 Mark II
Olympus 60mm f/2.8 Macro M.Zuiko Digital ED
 01/09/2007 02:08:54 PM
Gave me a smile. :D Clever and well executed. Could use maybe a bit more 'centering', but still fun nonetheless. Good luck.
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 01/08/2007 12:05:43 PM
great shot but I feel that it would be even better without the flying popcorn
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Pentax K10D
Tokina AF 28-70mm f/2.8 ATX Pro-SV for Pentax
 01/06/2007 06:59:25 PM
I want some, I want some...ok picture.
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Nikon D60
Sigma 18-200mm f/3.5-6.3 DC OS for Nikon
 01/05/2007 09:20:35 PM
Nicely done but is YOUR eye drawn to the center or that excaping kernel?
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Canon EOS-5D Mark III
Canon EF 17-40mm f/4.0 L USM
 01/04/2007 10:50:24 PM
color and detail are great... motion effect is especially cool!
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Nikon D7200
Nikon AF-S DX Nikkor 35mm f/1.8G
 01/04/2007 05:51:35 PM
This is really cool. How did you do it?
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Pentax K-5
Pentax FA J 75-300mm f/4.5-5.8 AL AF
 01/04/2007 11:00:24 AM
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Nikon D300
Nikon AF-S DX NIKKOR 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6G ED VR II
 01/03/2007 04:39:49 PM
great idea and colours!
wonderful execuition!
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Canon EOS-5D Mark IV
Canon EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6 L IS
 01/03/2007 07:27:39 AM
good lighting and color, well done, though the center of interest is off-centered
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Canon EOS-5D Mark II
Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8 L USM
 01/03/2007 02:18:05 AM
good!
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