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giantmike


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Challenge: Shapes IV (Basic Editing)
Camera: Canon EOS-50D
Lens: Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II
Location: Madison, WI
Date: Nov 4, 2010
Aperture: 11.0
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/2
Galleries: Macro
Date Uploaded: Nov 4, 2010

 I wanted to do crazy straws for this shot, but I didn't have any, and I didn't want to buy some just for the challenge. So I found some colorful paperclips I had, and thought "hmmm, the paperclip shape is pretty distinct." So this shot was born.

I used my homemade light tent, with some black cloth as the background, and two lights heavily diffused. Then I threw the 13mm extension tube on my camera, and with the 50mm lens, got a nice close up shot.

I really with this was advanced, as I could have cleaned up some bright spots with the clone tool, but instead I had to do some heavy adjustments which loses the sharpness. I'm not really expecting this to do too well.

Post processing:
* Crop
* Increase black point
* Increase exposure and brightness
* Topaz Adjust
* Increase contrast and definition
* Increase saturation with decreased vibrancy
* Increase highlights
* Edge sharpen
* Resize
* Add border (black very outside and white inner border, so this is truly at the edge)
* Save for web

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Votes: 167
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Sony Alpha a7R II
Sony Vario-Tessar T* FE 16–35 mm f/4 ZA OSS
 11/16/2010 07:10:55 PM
Simple and clever :) My top 5.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Nikon D90
Nikon AF-S Zoom-Nikkor 24-120mm f/3.5-5.6G IF-ED VR
 11/14/2010 06:23:31 PM
simple and very nice!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Canon EOS-1D Mark IV
Canon EF 85mm f/1.2L II USM
 11/10/2010 04:24:16 PM
=\ The image is unfortunately rotated just a bit CCW, in some cases I would assume it was intentional, but with eyecandy like this, it either needs to be substantially rotated, or absolutely straight.. This is neither, but it is quite pretty none-the-less....
  Photographer found comment helpful.
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