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day 14. 50 days square crop. bee diptych ..
day 14. 50 days square crop. bee diptych ..
roz


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Collection: 005 - JULY 07. SQUARE CROP
Camera: Canon EOS-400D Rebel XTi
Lens: Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 USM Macro
Location: on the firetrail
Date: Jul 14, 2007
Galleries: Animals, Diptych / Triptych
Date Uploaded: Jul 14, 2007

Viewed: 562
Comments: 13
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 today didnt pan out like i thought it would so i ended up taking photographs on the firetrail of bees .. i'm gonna put them in our 50 day side because they are square crops ..
this image is straight from the camera .. lol lol and ha ha, but hey, it is a square crop!! .. its a buggar trying to make some things live attractively in a square crop .. this would work better rectangular .. but wotever ..
if anyone is wondering how i got this effect ..
i got the bee shot like that by duplicating the background layer .. on the new layer i did a high pass about half way .. i made the high pass layer blending mode saturation .. did a bit of erasing to get the bee's body more colourful ...
to get the background i used one of the bee shots and scaled it as big as the entire image and made it blending mode dissolve.. i then put a grey layer underneath it .. i may've made it opacity 40 or 50% i dont remember ..
i did that border coz ppl in our side have been doing it and i reckon it looks really good .. did a vignette and used the perfectum plug to create that really smooth look ..

i'll put in the bee shots by themselves ..

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 08/24/2007 01:09:48 PM
nice i like the detail to the bees
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 08/21/2007 08:50:33 PM
nice processing, though perhaps I would have rearranged the bees a bit differently.
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 07/25/2007 09:03:50 PM
These are so beautiful and I love the way you have processed them.
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 07/17/2007 04:32:05 PM
This is truly amazing! I can't believe the quality of the bees & the background efect makes it looks so very stunning! Terrific job!!
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 07/17/2007 12:39:25 AM
Very, very cool, Roz! Beautiful shades brought out by outstanding pp...
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 07/16/2007 02:15:12 PM
I think this turned out awesome! I really like the grainy background & the editing on the bees works really really well.
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 07/15/2007 10:22:49 PM
Another awesome piece from you with your stamp on it as usual.....
Nice one Roz.....
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 07/15/2007 10:21:41 PM
The grey tones used to set apart the bee is just excellent. I love your choice of background as well. So funky and interesting. Thanks for including info about what you did.
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 07/15/2007 01:22:18 AM
Really nice processing on this. I tried shooting some bees as it was getting but it was getting too dark and I had ISO cranked up and my DOF was so small (at 200mm) that none turned out well. You really nailed it on the lower right bee! Thanks for the processing tips.
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 07/14/2007 11:10:11 PM
I love the way this is put together. This should be hanging on a wall. Nice job.
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 07/14/2007 12:58:58 PM
Roz this is sooooooooooooooooooooo cool. Two wonderful shots and the way you have framed them on the diptych with the grey empty space is beautiful. The overall effect is very professional and if I was walking round a gallery and saw this it would be the kind of image that would really grab my attention

Love it
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 07/14/2007 11:39:33 AM
Wow. I like the effect and the presentation is great. Good job Roz. I am copying down the steps as I am a CS2 beginner and look for great new processing effects. Thanks for the detail.
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 07/14/2007 07:11:21 AM
This is REALLY nice. I like the way the images fit together - blending in a very pleasing way.
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