Cross-section of some unusual corn I got the other day, on some cheesecloth. I know yellow or white corn would make for an even more high-key effect, but I thought this was more interesting, and I think the histogram shows a sufficient weighting towards the light end to "qualify" for this category.
I worked with different flash strengths and shooting distances to find a combination with gave me enough light while retaining substantial detail in the cob structure and the cloth mesh.
-Handheld, manual mode
-Macro mode
-Flash
-RGB Curve
-Blue/Yellow Curve
-Made mask for background area
-RGB Curve through mask
-Blue/Yellow Curve through mask
-Crop
-Resize
-USM at 88%/0.8 dia/TH = 5 (applied twice)
-Add 4-pixel black border
-SaveAs JPEG at quality 8/10 = 230KB
File: Corn_IMG_5463b-DPCb8.jpg
Alternate version (no border):
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Wow what a wrong score. I gave this a 7. I thought the subject was interesting and that you also did a good job with capturing the detail. I guess I know nothing about high key lol.
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