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Challenge #153: Seeing Red
Main Category (Fujifilm digital cameras)
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Challenge ended Mar 5, 2012
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3rd Place       Cadmium Barium Red (Vermilion Hue)
© leveelinda
226 points
Fujifilm FinePix HS20EXR
1/7 sec, f3, ISO 100
Mar 1, 2012
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Adjusted Highlights, boosted saturation slightly, cropped, USM, and resized.
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One of my favorite reds! Some of you will want a pristine tube, not a speck, no smudges, shined, and glowing. But folks, this is how a real tube of paint, owned and used by a real artist, looks.
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elliott
Mar 6, 2012
23:17 GMT
well done in both categories!!!! and i want to see what you did with that paint.
leveelinda
Mar 6, 2012
02:55 GMT
Thank you for everyone for your votes. I am thrilled/
Mar 5, 2012 23:59 GMT --- End of voting ---
Tessa
Mar 5, 2012
11:23 GMT
Maybe not as 'Red' as some of the other shots but I love it and can almost smell the paint! In my top 5. Good luck!
Neil UK
Mar 4, 2012
21:26 GMT
What a great red! but what did you do with the lid? Yuck! :-) . Lovely and sharp but my eyes get drawn to the sloping background and the red speck in the bottom right corner. Cropping off these two things would help your photo I think. GL.
leanneqld
Mar 4, 2012
03:05 GMT
I don't want the pristine tube..I like this old battered one just fine. Maybe take a little off the top and bottom (tighter crop).
drivingback
Mar 3, 2012
05:13 GMT
This goes in my favorites. Lovely texture, soft lighting and just the right dof. Not too sure about the crop/framing. I would have opted for more negative space (on the left) I guess as the tube pointing outward and the paint pointing towards the center is not giving it a coherent composition. Good luck!
leveelinda
Mar 2, 2012
22:09 GMT
Thanks saypat and elliot. El, it is on a painter's pallett.. Look in the top right corner and observe the mess. LOL
elliott
Mar 2, 2012
21:56 GMT
one of my favorite reds too (in my favorites). perfect lighting and focus. i understand your extra info but it seems to conflict with composition with tube on pristine surface. would do better with me if it was sitting on a well used painter's palette.
still high in my picks. el
saypat
Mar 2, 2012
04:02 GMT
Very nice! Very red! Numero uno!
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