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Challenge: Still Life II (Basic Editing III)
Camera: Nikon D2X
Lens: Sigma 105mm f/2.8 EX Macro for Nikon
Location: UK
Date: May 14, 2006
Aperture: f20
ISO: 100
Shutter: 2 seconds
Galleries: Still Life, Floral
Date Uploaded: May 14, 2006

 I did an elaborate still life set-up for the 'sayings' challenge and felt like a change of pace with this one. Hopefully it won't get too many DNMC knock-downs.

This was shot in a bluebell wood about a 40 minute drive from my home. I was up at 5 a.m. to catch the early morning light. Let's hope it was worth it :-)

Convert from RAW
Adjustment layers (Hue/Sat, Selective color, levels)
Rotate slightly
Crop
Resize
Sharpen
Save as JPEG (the fine detail in this image called for a low JPEG quality setting, so I actually made the image a little smaller than the maximum 640 pxls to allow for a better quality coversion).

Statistics
Place: 141 out of 338
Avg (all users): 5.3139
Avg (commenters): 5.8000
Avg (participants): 5.0460
Avg (non-participants): 5.4853
Views since voting: 983
Views during voting: 330
Votes: 223
Comments: 17
Favorites: 2 (view)

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 Comments Made During the Challenge
05/23/2006 10:11:02 AM
Interesting lines-
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 05/22/2006 08:38:40 PM
A landscape not a still life, at least it is for me.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 05/22/2006 03:39:20 PM
cool! great idea too.
Maybe some more focus on the flowers would be even better
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 05/22/2006 10:06:20 AM
Nice shot.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 05/21/2006 11:51:48 PM
this is magnificent...hope it does well for you///really well executed
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 05/21/2006 06:18:34 PM
Very creative!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 05/20/2006 02:45:17 PM
Nice effect, flowers spilling out of frame.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 05/19/2006 09:42:44 AM
Good color and the the flowers outside the frame add interest.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 05/18/2006 08:29:06 PM
Great effect. I'm guessing you brought the frame and took the photo... nice detail and choice of DOF to make this seem like a type of cool portal.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 05/18/2006 02:02:46 PM
Not crazy about the frame
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 05/18/2006 01:42:45 PM
nice way to give natural flowers the "feeling" of arranged flowers. Very few people have been successful at going out of the box in this challenge. I think I've counted 2 so far. Good job.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 05/17/2006 11:53:30 PM
What is with the fancy frame?
 05/17/2006 12:17:17 PM
This is not a still life, sorry.
 05/17/2006 09:22:06 AM
This is clever.....
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 05/17/2006 08:03:01 AM
very cool... i liked this one
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 05/17/2006 05:36:44 AM
IMO would be better, if there was some landscape seen outside of the frame
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 05/17/2006 12:41:46 AM
Umm.. Is that frame legal?
  Photographer found comment helpful.


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