Zhaoqing-Teashop-20110331-007 by cryptojoe

Photography • Story/Sequential • posted on May 11, 2011

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I worked so hard trying to get this shot right, but no matter where I went, there was other furniture in the way. I tried wide angle, straight shot, zoom, no zoom, whatever. If I used the flash I got glare on the glass, if I do not use the flash the image came back grainy. So, here we are, I did the best post work I could in Photoshop without getting ridiculously anal retentive and taking a week to do the post work. I almost sent this one to the cutting room floor, because I did not like the glare, it detracts from it, but I must live with it in order to show you the details these people include in their carvings.

Comments (14)

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jophoto

8:15AM | Wed, 11 May 2011

Sometimes it's worth it to take the time to be anal. This looks like a beautiful sculpture. The first thing you should have done in Photoshop is CROP the image tightly and get rid of all the extraneous gobblygook that detracts from the image itself. You can sometimes get rid of some of the glare by using a polarizing filter on the front of your lens when you are taking the pic. This filter rotates to add more or less polarization. It will darken skies, take away reflections in glass and water and enrich colors in your photo. Being totally anal, then I would probably have selected the entire subject (the sculpture} in PS, inverted the selection and added a black background...but cropping would be a good beginning.

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jmb007

8:30AM | Wed, 11 May 2011

tant pis,la sculture est belle,de toute façon!!

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Faemike55

8:42AM | Wed, 11 May 2011

Very stunning artwork and I can bet that it is not cheap

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renecyberdoc

9:05AM | Wed, 11 May 2011

anal retentive wow high class language hehehehe. i like to be anal in certain circumstances wich i will of coure not expose here . excellent shot.

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Sea_Dog

9:13AM | Wed, 11 May 2011

What a fantasic piece of work. It's hard to imagine the time and patience that went into creating it.

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Bossie_Boots

9:23AM | Wed, 11 May 2011

OMG what an amazing carving i bet it cost an arm and a leg its brilliant these people that do these have so much tallent thanks for sharing !!

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mgtcs

12:00PM | Wed, 11 May 2011

You did a marvelous work here, a fantastic photo of this marvelous artwork, absolutely amazing, thank you very much for sharing my friend!

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UVDan

12:54PM | Wed, 11 May 2011

That is a spectacular carving. Good job on the photo too. Is that a chocolate chip cookie on the floor?

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dough3219

2:48PM | Wed, 11 May 2011

There is a lot of hard work in that one as well as your picture thanks

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tennesseecowgirl

7:20PM | Wed, 11 May 2011

I agree in some ways with jophoto.. but maybe in this case of really trying to get a shot that just seemed to not work, perhaps giving us more points of interest such as what we are seeing in the photo, I believe it is eagles, and birds, carved in wood. But maybe some details of the artist or the name of the sculpture. But all in all I applaud your effort.

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