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Challenge: Flowers (Advanced Editing IV)
Camera: Canon EOS-5D
Lens: Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 USM Macro
Location: Garden
Date: Jun 30, 2006
Aperture: f5
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/250
Date Uploaded: Jun 30, 2006

 Daughters hands painted with dark blue paint, cupped and a white rose bud held between wrists. Used a blue plastic tarpaulin as a background. Shot in full sun in garden.

PS work:
Lots .....
First of all crop to lose the non-painted wrists
Quick spot edit for a couple of places where the paint had rubbed off
New layer added opacity 50% and a vignette added in dark blue.
Levels layer to get the white and black points set
curves layer toflatten the mid tone contrats a little
dodge and burn to bring up the detail in the rose petals.

Wasn't quite happy with the effect so applied a draganizer action.

duplicated the resulting layer and gausian blurred at opacity 22% to give it a glow
more playing with levels, dodge and burn
applied a cooling photo filter effect to further enhace the blue.
added a 2 pixel red border
sharpen
image resize
save for web

Statistics
Place: 95 out of 375
Avg (all users): 5.9336
Avg (commenters): 6.5000
Avg (participants): 5.8378
Avg (non-participants): 6.1587
Views since voting: 772
Views during voting: 294
Votes: 211
Comments: 14
Favorites: 0

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 Comments Made During the Challenge
07/08/2006 07:21:38 AM
I actually like this idea..... Reminds me of someomes who portfolio, I like a lot.....
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 07/06/2006 09:08:01 PM
interesting contrast and light going on here.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 07/06/2006 01:02:33 PM
Very pretty.
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 07/05/2006 04:39:38 PM
Great photo. Colors are really nice. Great job!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 07/05/2006 12:03:00 PM
Nice :o)
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 07/04/2006 04:55:28 PM
This shot demands a stop and a look. It has a purpose other than to slap me with another pretty flower. This kind of shot for me leads down the road to eternal editing so I appreciate the work put into this. It speaks very nicely.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 07/04/2006 02:47:59 PM
Mmm, cute idea, not too sure about the blue hands, they look a little creepy. Mabye desaturation would have worked better?
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 07/04/2006 11:24:58 AM
Focus point seems to be more on the hands than on the flower.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 07/04/2006 09:47:52 AM
I think this is very nice!
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 07/04/2006 09:06:36 AM
Nice idea and the hands are OK - but the flower is not (for me) the right colour. 6.
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 07/03/2006 09:07:44 PM
Way cool!
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 07/03/2006 09:30:13 AM
I love the white against the deep blue, beautiful image, and very different.
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 07/03/2006 01:34:32 AM
mysterious, well done
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