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Challenge: Lucky 13 (Advanced Editing VII)
Collection: Portfolio
Camera: Canon PowerShot S3 IS
Location: Concord, California, USA
Date: Mar 24, 2011
Aperture: 2.80
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/20
Date Uploaded: Mar 26, 2011

 -Handheld, auto mode
-RGB, Blue and Red Curves
-Crop/Rotate
-Resize
-Isolate Green Channel to Grayscale
-USM at 66%/0.6 dia/TH = 5
-SaveAs JPEG at quality 10/10 = 287KB

Resized original:

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Canon PowerShot S3 IS
Canon 12x IS USM (S3 IS built-in Lens) -- 36-432mm (35mm EQ)
 04/04/2011 01:18:17 PM
Thanks for the comments.

I made this grayscale because the colors were so far off due to the bad/mixed lighting in the pool hall, and the limitations of my ten year-old P&S Olympus camera, working in Auto mode (see below).

Resized original:

It is (pleasantly) shocking to have gotten it so "nice and sharp" with a 1/20-second handheld exposure! :-)

By the time I decided I was going to use this for my entry, it was too late to try and edit the colors individually, or to edit out the spots on the tabletop. However, I might not have done that anyway, since, with so many spots, it would be cutting it close to the line regarding removal of "distracting" elements ...
 Comments Made During the Challenge
OM System OM-5
Olympus 17mm f/1.8 M.Zuiko
04/03/2011 11:20:40 PM
Nice and sharp. I'm wondering why not do it in color?
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Nikon Z8
Nikon NIKKOR Z 24-120 f/4 S
 03/29/2011 10:17:26 PM
the lighting seems harsh and i don't quite understand the choice of b/w
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Canon EOS-20D
Canon EF-S 17-85mm f/4-5.6 IS USM
 03/29/2011 12:30:13 AM
i like that i recognized that the 13 was one of the 13 balls. I'm not so sure i like vibrant colors forced into black and white, though someone else black and whited their strawberries, so perhaps I don't know what I'm talking about.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Sony Alpha a77
Sony 16-50mm f/2.8
 03/28/2011 03:24:12 PM
Would have been nice to have seen the colours in this shot. Also, you could have removed the spots as it is an advanced editing challenge.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
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