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Challenge: Potatoes (Basic Editing)
Collection: Portfolio
Camera: Canon PowerShot S3 IS
Location: Oakland, California, USA
Date: Jul 20, 2010
Aperture: 3.51
ISO: 80
Shutter: 1/30
Galleries: Humorous, Food and Drink
Date Uploaded: Jul 20, 2010

 Sweet potato/yam inlaid with mashed russet/milk paste ... mixed CFL and incandescent lighting, Auto WB.

I deliberately over-sharpened this to create artifacts which act en lieu of specular highlights, to give the surfaces a more stone-like look, especially in contrast to the more dimly-lit and blurry background.

You can see examples of actual cameos here.

-Handheld (both camera and prop), Macro mode
-RGB Curve
-Blue/Yellow Curve
-Resize
-Crop (mostly from bottom)
-USM at 66%/0.6 dia/TH = 5 (applied five times)
-SaveAs JPEG at quality 10/10 = 299KB

File: Cameo_IMG_3422-DPC.jpg

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Olympus E-10
Canon EF-S 10-22mm f/3.5-4.5 USM
 07/30/2010 11:17:36 PM
Archive Collection - Food Faces & Edible Effigy
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
Fujifilm X-E1
Fujifilm XF 18-55mm f/2.8-4 OIS
 07/24/2010 10:31:18 AM
composition not talking to me. 6
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 07/22/2010 10:01:25 PM
who's silouette?
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Pentax K100D Super
Pentax DA 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 AF
 07/22/2010 09:49:05 AM
What are the odds of finding that one just while this challenge is up? Not sure if the background is a bit too busy for the used DOF. 6
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Sony DSLR-A200
Sony 75-300mm f/4.5-5.6
 07/21/2010 03:26:21 PM
LOL....cute idea! Not really loving the composition. Perhaps, having cropped out the right hand side??? Not sure what could have improved this at the moment but, it has more of a snap-shot look to it as it is here. 5
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Canon EOS R6
Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 L Macro IS USM
 07/21/2010 01:30:09 PM
Good idea for the challenge. All those faces in food things are hilarious. It would have been good to not see your hand in the photo.
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