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Double Deuces
Double Deuces
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Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Double Take (Advanced Editing V)
Camera: Canon EOS-350D Rebel XT
Lens: Tamron SP AF 17-50mm f/2.8 Di II LD Aspherical (IF) for Canon
Location: my kitchen
Date: Jun 1, 2007
Aperture: f/13
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/200s
Galleries: Macro, Action
Date Uploaded: Jun 3, 2007

 There is no camera trickery here: these are actually dice thrown through the air in front of the camera within the depth of field. I probably through the dice 50 times and got 4-5 decent shots with both dice in focus, in the frame.

Light: Dice light into umbrella to camera right, but below board level so very little spilled on the board. Fill light from a second flash bounced from the ceiling and wall at camera left. Very little ambient contribution.

Editing:
RAW conversion
Curves
Color balance
Selected dice, then color balanced them separately (for some reason they went off-white)
Bit of cloning on some bad highlights and a distracting edge
Neatimage
Saturation, decreased saturation/change tone a little on some of the distracting colors
Added slight vignette
Resize, sharpen, save

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Canon EOS-400D Rebel XTi
Sigma 18-200mm f/3.5-6.3 DC OS for Canon
 06/10/2007 10:47:40 PM
I love that the dice in the air are what's in focus. That must have been hard to do. Either you figured out some way to suspend them (wire straight back?) or you kept throwing the dice through the focal point and shot at high speed and got lucky. I can't imaging how many throws to get double deuces, hit the focal plane, be in the shot, and have double 4's on the other side.
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 06/10/2007 10:07:03 AM
well captured.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Nikon D50
Nikon AF Zoom-Nikkor 28-80mm f/3.5-5.6
 06/09/2007 04:27:43 PM
Ooh, and you even used the little dog! He's my favorite. Nice placement of the dice with the 2s and 4s showing. Lots of doubles here!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Canon EOS-350D Rebel XT
Canon EF 28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM
 06/07/2007 11:52:58 AM
Awesome capture of motion here! Unless they were being held by strings and you cloned them, lol! Either way, I think this is funny, sharp and has nice dof and composition.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Sony DSC-W7
Nikon AF-S DX 18-105 f/3.5-5.6 ED VR
 06/05/2007 09:02:20 AM
Nice idea & great focus on the dice. Good luck!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
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