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Sprouting a Pea
Sprouting a Pea
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Challenge: School Days: Biology (Basic Editing)
Camera: Canon EOS-400D Rebel XTi
Lens: Tamron SP AF 28-75mm f/2.8 XR Di for Canon
Location: Austin, Tx
Date: Feb 8, 2007
Aperture: F/4
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/200 sec.
Galleries: Nature, Macro
Date Uploaded: Feb 8, 2007

 Overcast light in my backyard garden. My kids help me plant things.

crop
desaturated blues to de-emphasize the blue trowel it's on
levels
shifted yellows to more greenish to make the pea look greener, then increased saturation
increased contrast a bit
resized for web
USM

Statistics
Place: 82 out of 131
Avg (all users): 5.4623
Avg (commenters): 5.9000
Avg (participants): 4.9487
Avg (non-participants): 5.5780
Views since voting: 674
Views during voting: 288
Votes: 212
Comments: 10
Favorites: 0

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 Comments Made During the Challenge
02/20/2007 06:07:37 PM
DoF isn't quite right and highlights and shadows both lost.
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 02/17/2007 02:10:25 PM
fantastic - 9
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 02/16/2007 12:01:14 AM
Good idea. Colors are nice. Wish the focus were stronger. Perhaps crop tighter on the left. Right now it's a bullseye. :)
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 02/15/2007 01:18:23 PM
I really like the colors.
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 02/15/2007 11:16:39 AM
good idea. there is a lot of interesting texture to explore here, and I wish that you hadn't used such a shallow dof. compositionally, i would push the pea to the left so that there wasn't so much dead space on that side. - 6
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 02/15/2007 10:53:52 AM
In terms of the challenge, I can relate to this entirely. I do, though, wish that it was in much sharper focus - the problem is that you have selected such a narrow depth of field that the bean cannot be in focus at the same time as the shoot; whilst shallow dof is usually good in macro photography, in this case it is just too shallow.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 02/14/2007 11:03:29 PM
YAY! i grew so many seed thingies in school...most of them died though. The focus feels weird to me here.
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 02/14/2007 10:15:40 AM
Good idea in general but the lack of focus really hurts this image.
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 02/14/2007 07:41:22 AM
B-
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 02/14/2007 02:28:20 AM
Great muted tones - Very earthy - I like it 9
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