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Jealous Heart


Jealous Heart
Photo Information
Copyright: Ben Tucker (kruger) Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 177 W: 5 N: 132] (978)
Genre: Places
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2006-02-17
Categories: Daily Life, Food, Macro
Camera: Canon Digital Rebel XT 350D, Canon EF-S 18-55mm
Photo Version: Original Version
Date Submitted: 2006-05-22 7:27
Viewed: 617
Points: 16
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note
This is a still life photograph of a celery heart, I don’t think I would have thought to shoot this heart if it hadn’t been for my two housemates bugging me to take a few pictures to brighten up the kitchen. They had just been cooking in the dull baby blue room when I spotted this part of their discarded leftovers on the worktop. I moved it onto a sheet of white paper and used natural light through a well light window however the sky was quite dull so I overcompensated with a longer exposure which also helped eliminate a lot of unwanted shadow and revealing more detail.


PP: very little post processing on this image other than the Kodak Ektachrome film style boarder which I cant take credit for myself if was a filter I picked up from a website. Slightly added some saturation to green colours in raw converter otherwise straight out of the camera.
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ThreadThread Starter Messages Updated
To Eben: Glad someone else uses it to compensate...kruger 1 06-01 09:31
To valari: hi Valentinakruger 1 05-23 05:49
To ciao_bella: Thanks Anniekruger 1 05-22 15:39
To baslan: Thankskruger 1 05-22 08:28
To ron-franklin: Hi Ronkruger 1 05-22 08:10
To SunToucher: Sorry that data was lot on the picturekruger 1 05-22 08:09
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Hi Ben,
Great macro, with good use of light. The colors and sharpness are perfect. A pity that you did not post the Exif file, because I am curious about your camera settings. The long shutter speed did help you to get the wanted result in the celery, but made the white paper too bright, which makes it claim a lot of attention. Did you think of changing the color of the wite paper in your pp work?
TFS,
Niek

Hi Ben

good to see back posting. At first glance I thought this was a flower......but it aint is it lol
great shot and eye well done (get it on the wall)

Ron

Very good detail and macro, Ben!
Levely green! Nice shadows!
Good crop and composition, though, i think, i would have moved the centre a little down to the low right corner.

thanks a lot and have a nice day, Karina:)

Hi Ben,
Great shot and good idea. Thanks for sharing. Well done.

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  • suzley Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 914 W: 86 N: 718] (6786)
  • [2006-05-22 10:06]

Hello Ben.

You show this Celery at its best...light and refreshing, great shot.

Stv.

Love the colour--drew me in immediately, and the border. Very creative.

Very good shot and idea :) How know what is the jealousy heart?! :)

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  • Eben (70)
  • [2006-05-23 15:15]
  • [+]

Ha no idea a peace of vegetable could look this good. The overexposure works excellent, the cropping and composition of photo is spot on. i have used this overexposure technique as well in on of my shots in tl and it definitely helps when u have a crap background

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  • james Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 159 W: 2 N: 91] (392)
  • [2007-07-23 11:28]

well done, and its the everyday things we take for granted that often make the greatest photo.
great job and tfs,
james

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