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Challenge: Nightmares II (Advanced Editing VII)
Collection: Challenges
Camera: Canon EOS-20D
Lens: Tamron SP AF 28-75mm f/2.8 XR Di for Canon
Location: Harwich Port, MA USA
Date: Apr 19, 2009
Aperture: f/5.6
ISO: 400
Shutter: 1/250
Date Uploaded: Apr 19, 2009

 This image has been run through various flavors of Topaz Adjust several times. As best I can remember, it's got "detailed", then it's got "portrait smooth", then it's got "crisp", then it's got "smooth and flat", then it's got Topaz Denoise, then adamus sharpening applied to a merged layer.

The end result is to bring a since of huge, bursting *dimensionality* to the image. I'm not happy with the residual noise/artifcating in the dark areas of the tomato, but on the whole I'm pleased.

Here's the original:


Statistics
Place: 62 out of 95
Avg (all users): 5.2800
Avg (commenters): 5.0000
Avg (participants): 4.8889
Avg (non-participants): 5.4035
Views since voting: 1081
Views during voting: 360
Votes: 150
Comments: 18
Favorites: 0

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 05/06/2009 01:26:49 PM
Holy crapola - that be seriously overTopaz'd! And it didn't crash your computer?? :-)
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 05/04/2009 05:02:32 PM
great digital art, a mutant of a tomato indeed.
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 05/02/2009 11:35:03 PM
This is cool. It no longer looks like a tomato. Looks like a growing orb. The details and texture on the tomato give the impression of a kind of convergence into the center. Interesting!
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 05/02/2009 02:24:12 PM
I love the colors and tones that you achieved with this...I gave you an 8!! yours definitely stands out in the challenge!
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 05/01/2009 10:18:42 PM
Creepy tomato LOL -yup, that's it!
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 05/01/2009 10:02:32 PM
I never thought of running a photo through multiple passes of contrary TA steps. Amazing outcome.
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 05/01/2009 09:43:07 PM
This is wonderful! What a creepy looking tomato, love the crazy processing.
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 05/01/2009 05:48:33 PM
What still amazes me about these processing changes,is that there is SO MUCH detail in the images we shoot that doesn't come out until these programs are applied. You can practically take your thumbprint off this image!
:-))
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 05/01/2009 02:14:55 PM
I thought it was great! I was the other "over-processed topaz" entry in that challenge! LOL!
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
04/26/2009 05:04:37 PM
Too overprocessed for me.
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 04/26/2009 05:44:31 AM
interesting PP, share the tips?
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 04/25/2009 07:37:04 AM
but its a tomato...
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 04/20/2009 10:34:49 PM
Not sure how you got that effect but really quite cool - love the background as well.
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 04/20/2009 09:33:46 PM
Or Attack of The Killer Tomatoes. Very different look and treatment of an object. Not particularly fearsome, but a wonderfull image that should be given some recognition as such.
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 04/20/2009 08:09:30 PM
Not a particularly interesting subject and too over processed for my liking.
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 04/20/2009 08:39:31 AM
Weird. I love the Lucis style editing. Not sure it'll go over well with everyone else. At first I thought it was a heart. LOL
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 04/20/2009 12:35:42 AM
good shot but the very heavy pp'ing is just too obvious.
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 04/20/2009 12:26:15 AM
could be a stain-glass window. cool
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