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Challenge: Anachronism (Advanced Editing V)
Collection: Portfolio
Camera: Canon PowerShot S3 IS
Location: Oakland, California, USA
Date: Apr 1, 2007
Aperture: 3.20
ISO: 80
Shutter: 1/6
Galleries: Humorous, Still Life
Date Uploaded: Apr 1, 2007

 ... for Mr. Scrooge? Had to make a salad dressing/olive oil cruet substitute for an inkwell ...

- Tripod, timer
- Cloned some of the silver over the white nylon gasket at the base of the neck
- RGB Curve
- Channel Mixer in Monochrome mode; adjustment layer set to 66% opacity
- Resize for DPC
- USM at 12%/48 dia/TH =0
- USM at 66%/0.6 dia/TH = 5
- USM at 66%/0.6 dia/TH = 5 (second application)
- SaveAs JPEG at quality 9/10 = 132kb

Statistics
Place: 75 out of 92
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Avg (commenters): 4.4000
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Views since voting: 1303
Views during voting: 427
Votes: 192
Comments: 5
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
Canon EOS-350D Rebel XT
Tamron AF 18-200mm f/3.5-6.3 XR Di II for Canon
 04/05/2007 02:33:46 PM
Good idea.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Sony Alpha a7
Canon FD 70-210mm f/4.0 MF
 04/02/2007 12:12:03 PM
Cool idea. It's not entirely obvious that the person is using a quill, however. Although the names on the phone also put the point across.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Sony DSC-H5
 04/02/2007 09:26:51 AM
The angle is awkward and the phone cord is distracting. I would've picked a simpler looking inkwell also.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Sony DSLR-A700
Tamron SP AF 17-50mm f/2.8 Di II LD Aspherical (IF) for Sony/Minolta
 04/02/2007 02:18:23 AM
err... I got it was a hand and a feather after some intense image studying. Wish the hand and feather were instant recognizable.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Nikon D300
Nikon AF-S DX NIKKOR 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6G ED VR II
 04/02/2007 12:35:04 AM
Clever idea, would have liked to see the quill more clearly.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
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