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Toast of the Town
Toast of the Town
quiche


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Challenge: Bread (Basic Editing)
Camera: Canon PowerShot A620
Location: Arizona, USA
Date: Feb 12, 2008
Aperture: f/2.8
ISO: 50
Shutter: 1/4
Galleries: Still Life, Food and Drink
Date Uploaded: Feb 12, 2008

 Crop, remove a hot pixel, contrast, brightness, shadows, sharpen.

This challenge gave me fits. 75 shots of a piece of bread (and all its attendant crumbs...ugh!) and I still struggled in post processing to get something submittable.

The glass is an upside down shot glass, which I'd been using behind the bread to hold it up. Just for kicks, I put it in front of the bread for about 2 of the 75 shots, never thinking this would be the one that got submitted. I still don't love the result, but it's 8 minutes to deadline, and I've got nothin' else.

FYI, the bread isn't toasted at all. It's just whole wheat bread backlit.

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Place: 51 out of 167
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
Olympus OM-D E-M5 Mark III
Olympus 12-100mm f/4.0 M.Zuiko ED IS PRO
 02/19/2008 11:53:07 PM
Looks a little well done. Nice lighting and tone on this.
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Nikon D50
Nikon AF Nikkor 50mm f/1.8D
 02/18/2008 08:36:19 PM
That toast looks a bit overdone. Besides that, the tonality of the image is pleasent. I am not sure about the glass in front, but overall the image is not bad.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Nikon D80
Nikon AF-S DX Zoom Nikkor 16-85 f/3.5-5.6G ED VR
 02/14/2008 09:23:46 PM
I like the back light effect
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Canon EOS-40D
Canon EF 28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM
 02/14/2008 05:05:59 PM
The toast looks burnt but maybe that's why I like it so much. Kinda adds contrast to the colors. One of my top ten. Great shot.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Nikon D40
Nikon AF-S DX Zoom Nikkor 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 ED
 02/13/2008 10:07:44 PM
Nicely done!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Nikon D40
Nikon AF-S Nikkor 50mm f/1.4G
 02/13/2008 07:21:48 PM
Digging the warm colors and the light rays on the background.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
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