Pine cone with eyes drawn on each element with a permanent marker. Lit from below with a single spot and fill in flash. Used f32 to get maximum depth of field on this, because theres going to be plenty of shallow dof images in this challenge, and I wanted something different.
PS work: unsharp mask, clone out a couple of light spots which distracted the eye, burn and dodge, apply heavy sepia filter, sharpen, sharpen more, contrast and brightness
File Name
CRW_6941_dpc.CRW
Camera Model Name
Canon EOS 10D
Shooting Date/Time
26/07/2004 21:53:02
Shooting Mode
Aperture-Priority AE
Tv( Shutter Speed )
30
Av( Aperture Value )
32
Metering Mode
Partial
Exposure Compensation
-1/2
ISO Speed
100
Lens
100.0mm
Focal Length
100.0mm
Image Size
3072x2048
Image Quality
RAW
Flash
Off
White Balance
Auto
AF Mode
AI Servo AF
Parameters
Contrast Normal
Sharpness Normal
Color saturation Normal
Color tone Normal
Color Space
Adobe RGB
File Size
5520KB
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Nicely observed - cute! I'd have cropped off the bottom third to retain the illusion a little more and would have enabled you to enlarge the view. Good light and DOF.
Good subject well lighted and captured. It's too bad the competition is so tough in the challenge. I fear this won't do as well as it deserves in the voting. With your obvious mastery of camera and comp, I expect to see a lot of good images from you.
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