This is a whisk that is standing up in some floral foam with a piece of black velvet laid on top of the foam set next to our dining room window. Minutes to set up and shoot with not a whole lot of thought as to the final product. I just knew I wanted the top of a whisk against a black background. When I downloaded the image and saw the cool flowing light on the velvet I decided to play that up a bit. Gave it an ethereal quality to it or something. Overall though this is just a shot that took me under 25 minutes to setup, shoot, edit and submit. Not really an inspired shot or anything, just something to appease my update button addiction. Hopefully a 6+ score.
Pretty straight forward editing - NI, high pass, levels, hue/sat adjustment to ocnvert to b&w, gaussian blurred everything but the most in focus parts of whisk, added blue color, dodged light streaks, resize, USM, big border.
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Wow, Tim! Way to glam up an ordinary kitchenware item! That's what this challenge was all about . . .turning boring into art. And you succeeded with flying colors! Beautiful tones of blue for that matter :)
I figured the end of a whisk would be the most entered shot in this challenge and I considered doing one anyway but I couldn't make it look cool. This looks cool. Love the tones and the simplicity.
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