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02-APR-2006 Victor Engel

Lentils *

Austin, TX

Canon EOS 10D ,Canon EF 85mm f/1.8 USM
2s f/16.0 at 85.0mm iso100 hide exif
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Date/Time02-Apr-2006 06:37:50
MakeCanon
ModelEOS 10D
Flash UsedNo
Focal Length85 mm
Exposure Time2.00 sec
Aperturef/16
ISO Equivalent100
Exposure Bias0.67
White Balance (-1)
Metering Modematrix (5)
JPEG Quality (6)
Exposure Programaperture priority (3)
Focus Distance

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Canon DSLR Challenge12-Dec-2008 23:49
very neat - I love your clever thinking. Penny STreet
Canon DSLR Challenge09-Apr-2006 05:41
Uh, how are you measuring? These are lentils. Do you know how big they are? Moving 1.5 cm would move the red one half way across the image. To verify that the red lentil is in the right place, look at the lentils under it. Each green lentil under the red one is angled counter-clockwise around the red one. Moving the red lentil one lentil width to the right would have been just as satisfactory (since the green lentils swirl not around a point but around a segment), but that would have left a hole. I could have spent a good deal of time arranging the lentils in an exact pattern, but I wanted some amount of randomness to the pattern. I opted for letting them find their own pattern by vibrating the container they were in. -- Victor
jbhgmvo05-Apr-2006 23:44
Very nice, good light and nice job on arranging it. But the red one drives me nuts! I would have placed it 1.5 cm higher towards one-o-clock. There's a green one there.. that's the center to me.
jimhwy04-Apr-2006 23:41
That is an amazing pattern you got. It's as if the red one is at the vortex of the lentils. Very nifty.
Canon DSLR Challenge03-Apr-2006 07:12
Sharon, I was wondering if anyone would ask about that. I spent a good deal of time trying to figure out the best way. I settled on putting enough lentils in the bottom of a plastic container so that they'd abut each other quasi-horizontally without stacking vertically (on lentil deep). That took a bit of trial and error. Then I used a combination of swishing the lentils around gently, vibrating them with my vibrating toothbrush (held against the container) and manually tweaking a few noncooperative lentils. When I finally got the green lentils in the order I wanted them in, I carefully set the red one on top in the middle of the "spiral". I could have made a more obvious spiral, but that would have not only taken more work, but it would have felt too much of a setup to me. This was a good compromise. -- Victor P.S. No amount of manual tweaking can match the tight packing of self organization. So after manual tweaking, I did another round of gentle vibration....
elips03-Apr-2006 06:21
Nice color contrast, Victor! How did you get the green ones to line up so neatly? Lots of lovely rounds! ~Sharon
Photogenix03-Apr-2006 04:41
Love the patterns here. - RK
Canon DSLR Challenge02-Apr-2006 20:53
Thanks. I learned something new with this project. I got green lentils and red lentils thinking they were exactly the same, except for color. But they're not. Red lentils don't have the outer hull. As it turned out, there happened to be one red lentil in with the green lentils I bought, so I was able to get the picture I planned after all. -- Victor
Canon DSLR Challenge02-Apr-2006 20:41
I like the pop of red.
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