Challenge:Macro III (Classic Editing*) Camera:Canon PowerShot G5 Location: My Basement Date: Dec 20, 2003 Aperture: 4.5 ISO: 50 Shutter: 1/60 Date Uploaded: Dec 20, 2003
This is a closeup view of a heat sink from an old Pentium 233 processor. I have always thought it looked cool. The red background is a holiday placemat. I thought it looked more interesting to compose the shot like a landscape and to use limited DOF. If I was doing this with a view camera, I would have swung the lens to align the focal plane with the sharpest row of fins, but until I get $25K for a digital back, that's not really possible.
Post Processing : Bump red & green saturation a bit (10 and 15). Created a dupe layer, sharpened it and changed blend mode to luminosity, then, duped that layer and applied Gaussian Blur (rad 3), changed blend mode to color. Flattened and saved for DPC
Statistics
Place: 58 out of 165 Avg (all users): 5.6232 Avg (commenters): 7.7778 Avg (participants): 5.5426 Avg (non-participants): 5.7955 Views since voting: 1273 Votes: 138 Comments: 11 Favorites: 0
you were right...it IS the colors of christmas :) i like it...one of the few true macros in the challenge. i like the contrastiness (i know, not a word). very edgy...literally - i like that. great job.
Add photograph to your favorites
Add photographer to your favorites
Photographer found comment helpful.
