Surprise, surprise! My second best score so far - with a point & shoot camera and with a DNMC shot (following the challenge description). Proof for two facts: It's not the equipment, it's the photographer. And voters don't care for meeting the challenge as long as it's a good shot.
BTW: The whole thing took me less than one hour - 30 minutes for cutting the paper and mounting it to the apple (each page pinned to the fruit with a needle), 5 minutes for the shot (lightbox from above, white paper background, handheld camera), less than half an hour for processing (levels, curves, hue/sat, reducing saturation of the paper, some burning for stronger shadows, cropping and slight rotation, USM).
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Place: 6 out of 111 Avg (all users): 7.1830 Avg (commenters): 7.9545 Avg (participants): 7.0556 Avg (non-participants): 7.2525 Views since voting: 4368 Views during voting: 412 Votes: 153 Comments: 31 Favorites: 1 (view)
You did a fantastic job Oliver...well done...a little neater than the original, but that mark on the apple still gnaws at me...I better get over myself :-) Well done mate
Perfect tribute of the three (including yours) I've seen in this challenge this one is by far the best. Great lighting and perfect execution. 10 from this voter.
Good emulation. Like I commented on the original, I'd like to see smaller font and wrapped text rather than cut-off, but to emulate it I guess you had to do this. You did a better job on the edges.
Your lighting is wonderful in this composition for it illuminates all the elements within. Colors are also great. And extra kudos to you for making the edges of the book pages nice and sharp as well as rounding them to the exact shape of the apple. They really look like they fit in there! Sharpness and details are wonderful I can 'read' and see the words clearly. I also like soft focus of the two apple seeds in the background...I guess that is the dual core that you 'plug' in:-)You did a fine job on emulating the original.
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