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I took my glasses apart and now I'm screwed
I took my glasses apart and now I'm screwed
pastortimmr


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Challenge: Glasses (Advanced Editing VII*)
Camera: Pentax K100D Super
Location: Dublin, CA
Date: Jan 20, 2009
Aperture: f/8
ISO: 400
Shutter: 1/2 second
Galleries: Macro, Blur
Date Uploaded: Jan 20, 2009

 I just got back from a youth camp. One student lost a screw in his glasses. A couple of the leaders/staff took apart their glasses to see if any of the screws would fit. Mine didn't... and now I can't put it back together. I was going to take a picture of it anyway, but to my surprise, this weeks challenge was GLASSES! WOO HOO!

Taken on my K100D super with a Fmount 35mm/2.0 Nikkor manual.

Edits- crop, levels, dodge and burn, clone stamped out a white spec that was on my table, cropped again, and then one more time, then added borders and resized

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Olympus OM-D E-M5 Mark III
Olympus 12-100mm f/4.0 M.Zuiko ED IS PRO
 01/27/2009 07:29:01 PM
Love the title! The lighting is good, but the image seems a bit grainy and soft. I think most of it is due to the use of excessive JPEG compression. Your file size of only 78k indicates a highly compressed image and that is what could be robbing a lot of the detail and smoothness from this image. Check your compression settings when you save your file. Always adjust JPEG compression so that your file size is as large as possible, but within the challenge limit. (200k for this one)

I don't know what you use for editing, of course, but I have posted an example and some notes on the compression settings in PaintShop Pro:

Hope this is helpful for you.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Nikon D70
Nikon AF-S DX Zoom Nikkor 18-135mm f/3.5-5.6G IF-ED
 01/24/2009 04:50:39 AM
wow nice shot,
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Pentax K200D
Pentax DA 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 AF
 01/24/2009 02:10:01 AM
beautiful..! Like the shallow DOF.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Sony DSLR-A200
Sony 75-300mm f/4.5-5.6
 01/23/2009 05:53:33 PM
Ohhhh..makes me want to scream when that happens! Looks like the levels or something might have been over-adjusted???? It shows on the screw but, still a lovely shot
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Canon EOS-7D
Sigma 18-200mm f/3.5-6.3 DC OS for Canon
 01/22/2009 09:40:48 AM
Is this an extreme crop? Or maybe over sharpened? I like the idea though.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Canon EOS-400D Rebel XTi
Canon EF 28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM
 01/21/2009 11:18:53 AM
yea i know how this feels!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
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