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Challenge: Bread (Basic Editing)
Collection: Portfolio
Camera: Canon PowerShot S3 IS
Location: Oakland, California, USA
Date: Feb 12, 2008
Aperture: 2.70
ISO: 400
Shutter: 1/30
Galleries: Emotive, Food and Drink
Date Uploaded: Feb 12, 2008

 Matzo is symbolic of the unleavened bread eaten by the Jews during the Exodus from Egypt; in their haste to escape the pursuit of Rameses they did not have time to let their bread dough rise. The title term refers to the tribulations associated with the subsequent 40 years of wandering in the Sinai Desert.

At one point during the Passover Seder (ceremony), the middle of the stack of three is broken in half, with one half hidden as the "Afikomen" (to later be the subject of a children's "treasure hunt"), with the other half being replaced for the moment.

Bread doesn't get much simpler than this -- to be Kosher for the Passover ceremony, the wheat must be ground, mixed with water (and nothing but water) and baked, all within eighteen minutes; it must not be allowed to rise at all.

-Indirect sun/window light, Auto WB
-Handheld, SuperMacro mode
-RGB Curve
-Resize
-USM at 16%/64 dia/TH = 0
-USM at 88%/1.3 dia/TH = 5
-SaveAs JPEG at quality 7/10 = 124kb

Statistics
Place: 114 out of 167
Avg (all users): 4.9009
Avg (commenters): 6.2857
Avg (participants): 4.7143
Avg (non-participants): 4.9704
Views since voting: 1168
Views during voting: 334
Votes: 232
Comments: 9
Favorites: 0

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Olympus OM-D E-M5 Mark III
Olympus 12-100mm f/4.0 M.Zuiko ED IS PRO
 02/20/2008 12:35:48 AM
This didn't do as well as I thought it would. Deserved a lot better for a final score. Looking at the other comments now, it was probably because a lot of voters don't know what Matzoh is. I gave it a 7, BTW.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
Canon EOS-7D
Canon EF 17-40mm f/4.0 L USM
 02/19/2008 09:28:34 AM
Flatbread? Tortillas? Crackers? Not sure what this is, but looks bread-like, so that's good. ;) Great composition and nice use of DOF.
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Nikon D50
Nikon AF Nikkor 50mm f/1.8D
 02/18/2008 10:01:45 PM
The extreme shallow DOF makes it hard for me to actually tell exactly what the image is.
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Olympus OM-D E-M5 Mark III
Olympus 12-100mm f/4.0 M.Zuiko ED IS PRO
 02/17/2008 02:46:37 PM
I didn't even think of matzoh for this challenge! Well done,and the cloth adds just the right splash of color to this.
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Sigma DP1x
02/15/2008 11:05:00 PM
I think you could have cropped the bottom and right some more and had a better image. The out-of-focus areas are distracting.
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 02/13/2008 02:52:22 PM
Now here is another reason to use a title with a picture - I had no idea what this was - looked the title up on the internet and had an interesting read on the subject of 'The bread of affliction'.

Great things titles : )
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Canon EOS-20D
 02/13/2008 02:37:52 PM
baruch ata 7
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Canon EOS-400D Rebel XTi
Sigma 50mm f/2.8 EX DG Macro for Canon
 02/13/2008 12:58:29 PM
A wider depth of field would improve this image
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Canon EOS-5D Mark III
Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8 L USM
 02/13/2008 10:37:01 AM
very interesting arrangement. I like the lighting from the bottom and top, giving the bread a very appealing texture.
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