Challenge:Hope (Basic Editing I) Camera:Canon EOS-10D Location: My home, Hutto, Texas Date: Aug 24, 2004 Aperture: f/27 ISO: ISO 100 Shutter: 6 seconds Galleries:Still Life Date Uploaded: Aug 24, 2004
In the RAW conversion I adjusted the color balance and exposure. Then I cropped this image, did a levels adjustment and another color balance. Last I used Unsharp Mask to sharpen the image.
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Might work for a greeting card if the composition was worked on a little. Cup is on the wrong side of the book and the glasses are facing the wrong way. A little steam on the tea would have been a nice touch. And lose the edge of the table.
Nice job. I like the composition: coffee cup, rose, glasses, bible, crochetted doily - it all fits together, both subject wise and in terms on color tones. The rose image is picked up in the cup and "Hope" is framed in the glasses. All very nice. Only criticisms? The rose looks kinda wilted (didn't last through all your hard work); it would have been nice to have some stronger glasses so that "hope" was magnified slightly more, and the coffee is cold! :-) Really nice photo though.
This really does convey hope. I like the colors a lot. The focus seems a bit off and there seem to be a lot of compression artifacts in the picture. I also wonder if it might have been better without the rose.
I liked your choice of subject. There seems to be a little distortion. I've read that is sometimes caused by working on a jpg image. I've been told by more experienced photographers to save the image as a tif or PS file until I'm through editing it and then save it as a jpg to enter the contest. Just a thought.... :-)
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