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The narrow timeline between buds and flowers
The narrow timeline between buds and flowers
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Challenge: Before and After II (Basic Editing)
Collection: Challenges
Camera: Canon EOS-20D
Lens: Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 Macro
Location: Brussels Belgium
Date: Dec 5, 2008
Aperture: f/4
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/13
Galleries: Macro, Floral
Date Uploaded: Dec 5, 2008

Studio shot, 3 lights , black background, tripod. Made a lot of shots with several lighting and apertures, f/4 seemed to provide the more attractive DOF.

The background is 'natural' (black paper), and far enough: the short DOF makes its texture invisible. There is no photoshop at all in this black (but I'm sure this entry will be questioned about that :)

Globally almost no PP: just camera raw, level adjusted, and the usual rotate, crop, resize, usm.

In advanced editing, I would probably clone out the bud beyond the flower, and rotate more towards the diagonal (what needs some additional black).
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Thanks for the comments, with a good point of some commenters about cropping ( rmezzo, phlover.
Here's an edited image (not basic anymore)

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 Comments Made During the Challenge
12/16/2008 11:25:53 PM
Nice photo - Great color. Sharp.
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12/16/2008 11:14:24 PM
I love this beautiful orchid against the black background
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12/16/2008 11:22:12 AM
I like this picture very much, I think I would've cropped it very tight on the top, to focus more on the flower itself. Nicely done nonetheless.
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12/16/2008 08:57:05 AM
Lovely shot. Very good finish. Well done.
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12/15/2008 04:33:18 AM
Beautiful shot.
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12/14/2008 12:42:58 PM
Nice :-)
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12/12/2008 07:11:21 PM
Beautiful shot. Nice and sharp in the right places. Your composition within the frame could use some work though. The bottom of the flower looks too close to the edge when you have all that space above.
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12/12/2008 12:13:53 PM
A very nice, clear flower shot. I like it. 9
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12/11/2008 02:25:03 PM
good idea 6
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12/10/2008 07:30:11 PM
Great lighting and I love the DOF.
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12/10/2008 05:35:28 PM
very pretty I wish I was seein that out my window and not the snow being blown around!
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