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Lightning strikes the leaf
Lightning strikes the leaf
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Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Textures III (Basic Editing III)
Camera: Canon EOS-20D
Location: Seltjarnarnes, Iceland
Date: Jul 17, 2005
Aperture: 11
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/200
Galleries: Nature, Macro
Date Uploaded: Jul 18, 2005

There is a tree just outside my front door that has beautiful dark red leaves. I was just fooling around with a the 105mm sigma (macro), 580 flash and a transmitter when I thought it might be cool to fire the flash beneath the leaves. The result made the veins of the leaf really stand out and kind of look like lightning - hence the title. Later I tried to take some leaves inside and was really pleased with one shot but it had a lot of sensor dust visible and as I understand we cant use the stamp tool to get rid of it. So I scrapped that one and send this instead. Hope you guys enjoy my debut here. Oh yeah... photo editing consisted of color balance, selective color and crop.

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Views since voting: 729
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Votes: 268
Comments: 11
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
07/26/2005 10:06:29 AM
cool
07/25/2005 04:24:07 AM
a little more exposure would've been better for the title
07/24/2005 07:56:04 AM
with maybe fewer noise image, it could have been better:)
07/23/2005 02:30:14 PM
Too bad it isn't sharp all the way. Nice texture.
07/22/2005 11:44:20 AM
Near the bottom of the leaf the colours and textures are wonderful, sadly near the top they are a little burned out and I find that very distracting.
07/21/2005 09:36:09 PM
Nifty.... I suppose you saturated?
07/21/2005 07:38:35 AM
Very interesting... the focus at top of leaf works well.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
07/20/2005 04:39:16 PM
Cool shot! I'd have preferred to have the entire leaf in focus, but it's still very pretty.
07/20/2005 03:35:53 PM
top half way too blury. use focus lock if you can.
07/20/2005 11:45:08 AM
I'd like it better if more of the leaf was in focus
07/20/2005 09:36:20 AM
I wish this were in better focus. Nice contrasting colors of red and yellow.


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