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Baker
Baker
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Challenge: Best of 2007 (Advanced Editing VII*)
Camera: Canon EOS-20D
Lens: Canon EF-S 60mm f/2.8 Macro USM
Location: Baoji, Shaanxi Province, China
Date: Nov 26, 2007
Aperture: f/13
ISO: 400
Shutter: 1/125
Galleries: Travel, Food and Drink
Date Uploaded: Jan 20, 2008

 Uyghur (I believe) baker in an outdoor neighborhood market, Baoji, China. The flatbread, called nan, is quite different from the Indian flatbread of the same name: thicker, more substantial, and has an embossed ornate pattern.

The baker has just dipped the loaf in a bowl of seeds to his left and is about to embed the seeds into the dough by slamming it on the cloth cover stone beneath his hand. He will then slap the loaf against the wall of the oven through the opening in front of him.

Preprocessing in Lightroom: white balance, exposure, recovery, tone curve, saturation, noise reduction, sharpening.

In Photoshop: transform, crop, clone out spot on arm and imperfection on apron, resize, save for web.

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Place: 171 out of 484
Avg (all users): 5.9836
Avg (commenters): 6.2222
Avg (participants): 5.9191
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Views since voting: 1026
Views during voting: 352
Votes: 244
Comments: 10
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
Canon EOS-7D
Tamron AF 28-300mm F/3.5-6.3 XR Di VC LD Aspherical(IF)Macro
 01/27/2008 03:38:30 PM
very nice editing to this, the overall sense of the location via the PP and the subject, adds to the depth of the image nicely done
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Canon EOS-40D
Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II
 01/26/2008 11:13:01 PM
very good environmental portrait.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Olympus OM-D E-M5 Mark III
Olympus 12-100mm f/4.0 M.Zuiko ED IS PRO
 01/25/2008 11:14:57 PM
Great light and color.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Nikon D70
Nikon AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor 18-70mm f/3.5-4.5G IF-ED
 01/25/2008 09:07:02 PM
Good use of thirds, may have pulled back a bit to include the entire surface that he is working from. Some curve adjustments and tweaking of the shadows could have added some more contrast. Good Luck. 5.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Canon EOS-5D Mark II
Canon EF 17-40mm f/4.0 L USM
 01/23/2008 07:45:03 PM
interesting. I like that he is in the shadows and his being framed by the door.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Canon EOS M50
Canon EF 50mm f/1.4 USM
 01/23/2008 12:43:14 AM
Just my opinion, but the peice of purple plastic on the bottom right completely ruins the feel of this photo.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Nikon D4s
Nikon AF-S NIKKOR 24-70mm f/2.8G ED
 01/22/2008 08:27:02 PM
nice shot
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Sony Alpha a6000
Sony E 16-50mm f/3.5-5.6 PZ OSS
 01/22/2008 12:08:37 AM
The spot on the wall in the center is a bit distracting. Maybe it could have been cloned out.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Sony Alpha a6000
Sony E 16-50mm f/3.5-5.6 PZ OSS
 01/21/2008 10:17:04 AM
should have cropped to get rid of the wall on the left. too bad that blue plastic handle was there. still like the shot.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Canon EOS-300D Rebel
Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6
 01/21/2008 12:36:51 AM
Very interesting image, I like the compositon and the beautiful light. 9
  Photographer found comment helpful.
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