An Intel Pentium processor was removed from an old computer. The processor was propped up at an angle on a motherboard to capture the circuitry as a background. An incandescent lamp provided most of the lighting while colored LED lights were used to make a neon-styled glow in parts of the picture. The idea was to make it look like it was inside a "live" computer.
Post processing included color, levels, brightness, and contrast adjustment.
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You shot a 200 Mhx Intel Pentium MMX CPU on top of the motherboard of a more modern AMD Athlon based system and you want me to see this as an ad for Intel? (No, I didn't have to look anything up, I read the bottom of the Intel CPU and I recognize the shape of the AMD CPU, plus the K755A number is of an Athlon Mainboard...
Anyway, good points for color and crispness of the image. You lose a few for mixing two brands as I don't know which "It's what is inside that counts" you are referring to...
Very nice capture. I voted it among my top 10 picks. The only thing I'd suggest is to tone down the hot spots on the tops of the cylenders (may not be possible in basic editing. I monkeyed around with it a bit and couldn't improve it any.) and possibly desaturate the yellow/golda bit. Since it is a technical topic/image, I wonder if a bit deeper DOF would have made it pop a bit more?
Well lit but the DOF is too short for this sort of shot. Either make everything in the shot razor sharp, or tighten it up so the product is the only thing in focus, as it is with the foreground in and the backround out the eye tends to bounce around a bit too much. It is a small quible in a good overall shot.
Wow... so colorful! I may have cropped this a little further.. to take out those two yellow things (yes, that's a technical term!) in the back left that seem really over-exposed.
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