One of my fish in the ol' fishtank. He is actually quite red. I knew I couldn't get a "DPC good" entry with little light and a quick red fish, so here is what I ended up with. I actually like it a lot. It will score horribly, but what can you do.
Shot in RAW: adjusted white balance
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Various Hue/Sat, Curves, Brightness/Contrast, and Selective Color layers. Added noise (why not?), USM, save for web.
It's nice to see that some of you guys liked this as much as me! Thanks a bunch!
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Place: 242 out of 273 Avg (all users): 4.3244 Avg (commenters): 5.5000 Avg (participants): 4.2471 Avg (non-participants): 4.3616 Views since voting: 959 Views during voting: 362 Votes: 262 Comments: 14 Favorites: 1 (view)
i'm one of your 9s. knew you were going to get blown out of the water score-wise, but it's still great and one of the better images in the challenge, to my eye.
Aw man - I loved this photo during voting, though I already knew it wouldn't appeal to the masses. Your title is really inspired, too. Great crop and grain - it's very deep-sea-ish, yes, very subconscious. I commend you for submitting a photo you liked even if you knew it wouldn't soar. As you can see by the 45 votes of 6 and above, some of us thought it's pretty cool.
Hahahaha we are on the same level here, I thought this was lovely! Great DOF, magnificent crop (enough to let me know what it is, nice balance I think betbween the dark misterious background and how much space the fish takes over the frame!) nice yellow too and I do love the sexy noise on it!
I'm not sure what to make of this one. Grain is something I don't mind at times and it works ok here. Kind of an abstract feel to this with the comp. I can't believe I'm still looking at this trying to decide if I like it or not...guess that's a good thing...making the viewer pause. For that, and the gonads to enter this, I'll score it slightly above avg. Good luck.
Normally I would say that noise in this quantity is pretty undesirable and I am still close to continuing to agree with that, but this is almost pushed so far that it is almost a positive thing and adds to the image. I am sure there will be plenty of voters that disagree though. Well composed
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