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Corkscrew
Corkscrew
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Challenge: Twisted II (Basic Editing)
Camera: Canon EOS-350D Rebel XT
Lens: Quantaray AF 70-300mm f/4.0-5.6 LD Tele-Macro for Canon
Location: home
Date: Sep 25, 2009
Aperture: 10
ISO: 100
Shutter: 30 sec.
Galleries: Macro, Studio
Date Uploaded: Sep 25, 2009

 Its been a long time since I have entered a photo contest. This is my attempt to get back in the game.

Simple shot, I made a black back drop and mounted a refrigerator magnet in the middle. Then used a single source of light and shot away. This was the best of the photo shoot.

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Olympus OM-D E-M1 Mark II
Olympus 60mm f/2.8 Macro M.Zuiko Digital ED
 10/06/2009 08:59:37 AM
I'm surprised we didn't see more corkscrews in this challenge. This item is so smooth it's hard to show that you've gotten sharp focus. It's also blending into the black a little too much and becoming lost. All JMO of course. Good luck.
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Canon EOS-50D
Canon EF 20-35mm f/2.8 L
10/02/2009 09:03:14 PM
This appears too low key.
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Olympus OM-D E-M5 Mark III
Olympus 12-100mm f/4.0 M.Zuiko ED IS PRO
 09/30/2009 08:12:05 PM
Seems to lack clarity somehow. You may have some excessive compression robbing detail, but all that dark background naturally compresses well. Your file size is only 35k, so you had lots of overhead on this to use less compression. It would not have hurt and may have helped.
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Nikon D700
Sigma 24-70mm f/2.8 EX DG Macro for Nikon
 09/30/2009 11:33:30 AM
way too dark IMO and I'm not keen on the central crop
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Canon EOS-5D
Canon EF 17-40mm f/4.0 L USM
 09/30/2009 10:43:27 AM
*not voting as I'm in this challenge-just commenting since I've seen requests for comments in the challenge thread*

Very cool idea, and a great one for this challenge might I add. Execution is laking somewhat though. The blacks in the reflection cause this to be lost some up against the black BG, also all the other stuff going on in the relections are very distracting. I would suggest using either a light tent or painting with light in a very dark room for this sort of object.
HTH
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