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And now for the rest of the garden...
And now for the rest of the garden...
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Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Selective Desaturation II (Advanced Editing V)
Collection: 2007 Challenges
Camera: Nikon D70
Lens: Tokina AF 12-24mm f/4.0 AT-X Pro DX
Location: Waterford CT - Harkness Park
Date: May 16, 2007
Aperture: F8
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/160
Galleries: Architecture, Black and White
Date Uploaded: May 19, 2007

 Shot at Harkness State Park during lunchbreak using Tokina at 12mm. The gardeners were out and had just started to plant the gardens for the summer. I
Opened RAW image in CS2
Adjusted Exposure, Curves, Hue/Sat, Save as JPEG
Opened in Elements 3.0
Added layers - Adjusted levels, Brightness/Contrast
Added layer for Hue/Saturation - desaturated all but blue and magenta- adjusted hues to give all blue
Added duplicate layer of background -
Adjusted Hue/Sat on this layer - desaturated all but blue, magenta and green. Added these back in to image using selective mask on the flowers.
Cropped image
Flattened image
Selective dodge/burn to improve contrast and highlight some on the building and to bring back some detail in the step in the foreground that was somewhat blown out.
USM (~20,50,0) to boost contrast.
Save for web
Opened in Elements
USM to sharpen
Save for web at <150 and 640

Statistics
Place: 422 out of 556
Avg (all users): 5.0088
Avg (commenters): 5.3333
Avg (participants): 4.9831
Avg (non-participants): 5.1000
Views since voting: 911
Views during voting: 275
Votes: 228
Comments: 4
Favorites: 0

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 05/29/2007 04:05:23 PM
Peter - wow, this scored much lower than I expected. What a tough challenge. I really like the DOF created by the small bits of blue throughout the garden. This definitely deserved higher than a 5.5. I must say that is a striking bell curve on your scoring, however.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
05/25/2007 07:19:12 PM
The blues in the right aren't obvious. Black and whites could be stronger.
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 05/21/2007 09:19:34 AM
LOL - gives a great perspective on a lot of work here.
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 05/21/2007 03:16:22 AM
might have been better if the pots in the back were not left in color.
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