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Two forms of grape
Two forms of grape
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Challenge: Fruits and Vegetables II (Advanced Editing V)
Camera: Canon EOS-20D
Lens: Canon EF 24-105mm f/4.0 L IS
Location: My house
Date: Feb 11, 2007
Aperture: 5.6
ISO: 200
Shutter: 5s
Galleries: Studio, Food and Drink
Date Uploaded: Feb 11, 2007

 Not the most creative shot, but wanted to work on my lighting skills using more than one flash. Lighting setup was 580ex flash on camera pointing to the right to bounce flash off the right wall, and 420ex flash sitting off camera to the left and above of the wine bottle. Black t-shirts used as the base and background.

* Crop and rotate
* Levels and lots of burning to make the background fade to black (who knew black t-shirts could be so bright?)
* Bump up saturation
* Clone out some dust and cat hair on the base
* Clone out some small, bright reflection spots on the top of the bottle
* Burning on the top of the bottle to lessen the brightness of the reflection in the glass
* Levels on the stem of the grape a bit to bring down its brightness
* Neat image
* Resize
* Smart Sharpen
* Save for web

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Place: 62 out of 346
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
Canon PowerShot A620
Nikon AF Nikkor 50mm f/1.4D
 02/18/2007 08:14:48 PM
Excellent focus on the grapes. Makes me want to run to the store for some. Grapes and wine.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 02/18/2007 04:13:05 PM
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Nikon D300
Nikon AF Nikkor 50mm f/1.8D
 02/13/2007 07:03:59 PM
Very nice, neat, simple image.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Apple iPhone 7
Canon EF 70-200mm f/4.0 L USM
 02/13/2007 03:43:03 PM
great lighting. i like the simple composition
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Canon EOS-50D
Tamron AF 18-270mm F/3,5-6,3 Di II VC LD Aspherical [IF] macro for Canon
 02/13/2007 01:51:47 PM
Very nice, clean shot. Could be a real product shot. Nice subtle lighting and reflected light. I hope you get the recognition this deserves.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Canon EOS-600D/T3i Rebel
Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 IS
 02/12/2007 04:35:46 PM
Lighting is nicely done on both subjects - especially on the wine bottle as that there are no distracting reflections nor does the lighting appear flat. One little critique is that I think you could crop the negative space even closer to the bottom of the grapes. On my screen the negative space does adds nothing to the composition and it gives the appearance that the grapes and the bottle are 'floating'.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
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