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Zou
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Cucumber
      #594943 - 12/01/2008 18:28

Mrs Zou hates this, partly because she hates cucumber. What do you lot reckon? Good enough to eat, or push it to the side of the plate?



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Re: Cucumber [Re: Zou]
      #594952 - 12/01/2008 18:50

I don't like cucumber....but I like this! Pretty, abstract and nicely framed

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Nig
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Re: Cucumber [Re: daft_biker]
      #594955 - 12/01/2008 18:58

I like this too

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Mat
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Re: Cucumber [Re: Nig]
      #594969 - 12/01/2008 19:34

It looks cool to me but I think I would prefer it to be brighter. Perhaps it could be back lit?

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Re: Cucumber [Re: Mat]
      #594978 - 12/01/2008 19:55

I love it

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Re: Cucumber [Re: OneTen]
      #595034 - 12/01/2008 22:32

Quote:

I love it




The picture or cucumber?


I like this, very different but did you eat it afterwards?

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Re: Cucumber [Re: Zou]
      #595039 - 12/01/2008 22:40

Zou,

I like the idea as an abstract but I can't find an area of sharpest focus - maybe that was your intentention though.

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Re: Cucumber [Re: Bawbee]
      #595041 - 12/01/2008 22:43

Quote:

Zou,

I like the idea as an abstract but I can't find an area of sharpest focus - maybe that was your intentention though.




Is there anything that you can get sharp on a piece of cucumber ?

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Re: Cucumber [Re: daft_biker]
      #595043 - 12/01/2008 22:46

It sure works for me, Lovely!
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Re: Cucumber [Re: alan321]
      #595048 - 12/01/2008 23:03

It amazes me the amount of different subject ideas that people come up with on here and this is one of them
A great picture of an every day subject…well done…I like it

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Zou
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Re: Cucumber [Re: Badgerman]
      #595088 - 13/01/2008 05:31

Thanks guys. I think I did eat it afterwards (heartless, aren't I!), it was backlit actually, and the softness was mainly intentional (in order to make it a bit more abstract).

I used the channel mixer to convert to mono and then some tiniting to get the all over green I wanted and to bring out some detail not quite visible in the original.

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Re: Cucumber [Re: Zou]
      #595119 - 13/01/2008 10:50

Excellent - love it!

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Re: Cucumber [Re: Zou]
      #595413 - 13/01/2008 23:43

Quote:

:D Thanks guys. I think I did eat it afterwards (heartless, aren't I!), it was backlit actually, and the softness was mainly intentional (in order to make it a bit more abstract).

I used the channel mixer to convert to mono and then some tiniting to get the all over green I wanted and to bring out some detail not quite visible in the original.



..thought it was one of your macro pinholes....
nice idea though...

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Re: Cucumber [Re: Bawbee]
      #595667 - 14/01/2008 14:42

Quote:

Zou,

I like the idea as an abstract but I can't find an area of sharpest focus - maybe that was your intentention though.




I like it. I don't think it would have worked as well with sharp focus.

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Zou
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Re: Cucumber [Re: spinno]
      #596062 - 15/01/2008 10:53

Quote:

..thought it was one of your macro pinholes....
nice idea though...




Now there's an idea. Well done that man!

Thanks for the other comments too.

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