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JRalston


Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Square Crop (Advanced Editing IV)
Camera: Canon EOS-20D
Lens: Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM
Location: Guam, over my kitchen sink ;o)
Date: Mar 4, 2006
Aperture: f.22
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/15th
Galleries: Black and White, Traditional Art
Date Uploaded: Mar 4, 2006

 Whew, what a pain this one was. How I did it:
1) I set a flower behind a black piece of glass
2) I used a medicine dropper to place dropplets of water on glass
3) I placed a piece of white glass behind setup for background and place a purple gel over the white glass for a darker hue
4) I used a long exposure and used a flashlight to highlight parts of the image. I aimed the flashlight through the white glass for the glow behind the flower. (I had a light overhead my kitchen sink for general lighting)

5) Post Processing:
-Raw adjustments in CS2
-Cleaned up a few sensor dust spots, dust on glass, and flower imperfections with clone tool.
-Crop (rotated w/crop)
-clone out small white spot from crop
-Dodge very center of flower once
-USM
-Channel Mixer for black & white

Statistics
Place: 152 out of 369
Avg (all users): 5.5797
Avg (commenters): 7.6000
Avg (participants): 5.3893
Avg (non-participants): 5.9079
Views since voting: 1014
Views during voting: 303
Votes: 207
Comments: 11
Favorites: 1 (view)

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 Comments Made During the Challenge
03/11/2006 11:59:20 PM
awesome contrast.
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 03/11/2006 11:05:53 AM
this is amazing
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 03/10/2006 08:46:52 PM
Interesting... I'd like to know what you made this out of!
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 03/10/2006 06:55:21 PM
Very cool! I have no idea what it is, but very cool!
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 03/10/2006 12:10:10 PM
beautifully exposed and composed, well done.
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 03/09/2006 04:03:00 PM
great pic
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 03/07/2006 11:36:44 PM
wow - one of the best b&w's in the challenge 9
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 03/07/2006 02:16:27 PM
GREAT IMAGE, very creative
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 03/07/2006 12:05:44 AM
Wow very interesting. I always love seeing something different. This is great!
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 03/06/2006 12:01:07 PM
Really cool!
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 03/06/2006 07:47:06 AM
Nice shot, would have done well in the abstract challenge, good luck
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