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Challenge: Free Study 2007-04 (Expert Editing*)
Camera: Canon EOS-400D Rebel XTi
Lens: Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II
Location: Albuquerque, NM
Date: Apr 29, 2007
Aperture: f/3.2
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/640 sec
Galleries: Macro, Floral
Date Uploaded: Apr 30, 2007

Saw this thing at the Botanical Gardens yesterday and thought it looked cool. Natural light (clouds, shade). I really love how this turned out. I expect a rather crappy score for this in the Expert Free Study, but I just have to put it in.

Shot in RAW: adjusted white balance, exposure
save as 16-bit PSD

PS:
Crop
NI
Curves
Very minor cloning and blurring
Black & White
Flatten
Convert to Greyscale, then 8-bit, then duotone with blue/black, then back to RGB
Brought a B/W layer back under the duotone layer
Convert Duotone layer to Overlay at 68%
Selective Color to tone down the super bright whites
Resize
Sharpen
Border
Save for Web

Statistics
Place: 197 out of 573
Avg (all users): 5.9379
Avg (commenters): 7.8750
Avg (participants): 5.8130
Avg (non-participants): 6.2222
Views since voting: 886
Views during voting: 236
Votes: 177
Comments: 18
Favorites: 4 (view)


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05/12/2007 09:55:40 AM
This is a wonderful image. You really did a great job on this.
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05/12/2007 09:52:01 AM
Greetings from the Critique Club

Well, it's always nice to get an image to critique that is well done. I get to look at a good piece and get to say nice things.

It's beautifully composed in the frame, and the monotone treatment gives it the austerity you undoubtedly were trying for. The beautifully blurred background acts as a nice foil to the starkness of the main attraction. If it was mine, I'd probably try to get all the stem sharp. But I don't know if that would be an 'improvement'; just different.

In any event you have a nice image here and your score wasn't that crappy.

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05/08/2007 10:36:02 AM
Thank you for putting it in despite what you expected it to score (and it ended up not doing too badly at all - check that commenter score!) Excellent. Very nice processing, too - thanks for sharing the details.
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05/08/2007 02:28:40 AM
I love the awesome tones that you have here.....
I also love the simplicity of this one, and the focus is top notch IMO.....
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05/08/2007 01:56:44 AM
Challenge fav fyi 9
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05/08/2007 12:47:31 AM
You was robbed. I love this shot; amazed it didn't do better. I gave a 9...
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
05/07/2007 10:31:45 PM
scary cool. 9
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05/06/2007 05:36:52 PM
Great job on the focus - I like the simple structure of this composition.
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05/05/2007 05:14:04 AM
this is nice, has a very cold, isolated feel to it. The only thing I would perhaps change would be to clone out the annoying blob that looks like lens flare (or part of the background) to the right of the stalk as it is quite distracting.
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05/03/2007 12:27:20 AM
Very moody, nice work.
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05/02/2007 11:47:11 PM
nice tones & fascinating shapes...
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05/02/2007 03:22:09 PM
I find this photo effective. It would have looked very different in color, but I like this presentation.
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05/01/2007 11:27:02 PM
Great DOF. Love the colors and tones. Great clarity on the main subject. Nice work.
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05/01/2007 09:37:41 PM
Who'd a thought someone could make a dead flower look beautiful. Nice job.
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05/01/2007 07:45:26 PM
Beautiful.
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05/01/2007 03:22:53 PM
6
05/01/2007 02:09:54 PM
What an odd and spikey plant, different, interesting, i like it
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05/01/2007 12:36:05 AM
love it, had to add to favorites :)
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