Challenge:Hope (Basic Editing I) Camera:Canon EOS-10D Location: Living room Date: Aug 24, 2004 Aperture: f/11.0 ISO: ISO 100 Shutter: 1/4s Galleries:Still Life Date Uploaded: Aug 24, 2004
Not my most brilliant effort IMO, but what results from a quick eleventh hour scramble.
White balance and exposure adjusted in RAW format. Workflow in PS:
- colour and contrast optimized
- sharpened
- rotated and cropped
- selectively desaturated in accordance with Basic Editing rules: all hues but yellows desaturated across image, and yellows pulled down to ~50%.
- Resized to 640 width
- USM
- JPEG conversion
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idea is good, but somehow the overall picture doesn't appeal. why do i see the text on may be the backof the paper all over your background .. just not that clean ..need better lighting and cleaner shot.