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"Autumn's the mellow time." (William Allingham)
"Autumn's the mellow time." (William Allingham)
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Challenge: A Single Tree (Advanced Editing IV)
Camera: Panasonic DMC-FZ20
Lens: Olympus WCON-08D 0.8x Wide Angle Conversion Lens
Location: Home
Date: Sep 10, 2006
Aperture: f/8
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/200s
Galleries: Abstract, Emotive
Date Uploaded: Sep 10, 2006

 Autumn is a time for a lot of nature to start their endless cycle of regeneration, losing their old coats before gaining their new coats in Spring. So this shot was made in the spirit of capturing the sense of the twilight period that Autumn heralds.

The shot was made with my wife's Chinese Elm bonsai as the main subject and, sadly, it is losing its leaves this year, probably as it lived in the garden for a period this year. The tree was shot from below the bowl it is in and up into an orange sheet of paper that was lit from behind by firing a flashgun with an orange filter into an umbrella. The objective was to set the bonsai into a near silhouette with the background dominating the colour.

Post processing was relatively simple with a crop, the background taken into a separate layer and smoothed with increased saturation, and then the image collapsed, ninja'd, usm'd and sized for the web.

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Place: 223 out of 251
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
09/13/2006 02:25:08 PM
I LOVE BONSAI'S!!!
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 09/13/2006 12:37:29 AM
this is a little too red for me...strikes as very PS
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 09/12/2006 09:08:07 PM
A little ambitious on the editing, eh?
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 09/12/2006 05:48:36 PM
The background here does not work at all. I think had this been presented as a silhouette, with the tree being stark black against such an eye searing wall of red, it would have worked much better. As it is, the mass of red color just works against the subject, making its surface appear washed out and lacking in detail. Good luck.
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 09/12/2006 02:25:02 PM
The background is interesting but just too vibrant for my taste
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 09/12/2006 10:25:25 AM
An interesting hue of red in the background. The tree looks a little stumpy.
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 09/12/2006 12:04:15 AM
This has the feel of a Japanese print... nicely done
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 09/11/2006 03:45:58 PM
Is that tree on Mars?
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 09/11/2006 04:34:27 AM
i think this would have been a bit more effective if it was a really solid silhouette; i think the red background would have set that off really well, and a posh wallpaper company might have used it as a print. as it is, it's still rather striking; the red is really lovely and bold. very likeable; 7.
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