Garlic

Challenge #32 in the Nature from Around the World series. Hosted by vqueen.

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Very simple: just submit your best picture of garlic. Please read the rules carefuly

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Announced:

Thursday, 1st March, 2012 (GMT)

Submissions:

Thursday, 8th March, 2012 – Wednesday, 14th March, 2012 (GMT)

Voting:

Thursday, 15th March, 2012 – Wednesday, 21st March, 2012 (GMT)

Processing rules:

No major photo-shopping
Minor editing such as exposure, contrast and such for small fixes is acceptable
No HDR

Capture date rules:

No restrictions.

Additional rules:

Photo entries must be the original work of the challenger (poster)
Only pictures not entered in previous dpr challenges please
Please abide by dpr rules re nudity etc

Maximum number of entries per user:

Maximum number of entries in challenge:

100

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Lovely ingredient!

by l_objectif

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Camera:	Leica D-LUX 5
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Submitted:	Thursday, 8th March, 2012 22:11 (GMT)
Taken:	Friday, 28th October, 2011
Focal length:	19.2 mm
Shutter speed:	1/30 sec
Aperture:	F4.5
ISO:	400
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Galleries:	View this photo in l_objectif's gallery

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Total comments: 12

photophillic, theriousgracchus and Wildbegonia, thank you so much for your kind encouraments. Much appreciated,
louis

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Excellent lighting and presentation.

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eat healthy !! this is a great ad for garlic . Wonderful tonal range.

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Excellent lighting and shadows. Care to share how you did this so we can learn? What did you use for lighting? Was the shadows accentuated in software?

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Hi, Arthur, thanks very much for your kind comments!
The light coes from the window on the kitchen table. It was converted with Silver Efex, first version, in PS CS2.
The contrasts have been touched up with "Shadow/Highlight" in PS. What I mostly cared about was to give more details in the light areas! ;)

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Congratulations, great work and thank you for your generosity in sharing with us. I am learning too.

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You tackled the tricky square format and made a very nice job of it - something a little bit Edward Weston about this photograph...

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Thank you so much for your encouraging words, Joe! Really appreciated! ;)

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Holy cow, I have never seen garlic so beautiful.
Nice picture!

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Very kind of you; thank you so much! ;)

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Love the picture!

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Much appreciated, Pilot! ;)

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