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Dogwood
Dogwood
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Challenge: Sepia (Basic Editing)
Camera: Nikon D200
Lens: Sigma 18-200mm f/3.5-6.3 DC OS for Nikon
Location: Philadelphia, PA
Date: Apr 28, 2008
Aperture: f/ 8
ISO: 250
Shutter: 1/100 sec.
Galleries: Nature, Still Life
Date Uploaded: Apr 29, 2008

 This was my first idea for a subject for this challenge. Then I could not find a Pink Flowering Dogwood tree. Course it might have helped if a I looked some more. I looked all over the other side of town and found a couple of white ones and a small pink one that I did not get a decent image off of. So I come home from the other side of town and low and behold there is one a block from where I live. Yeesh. So I shot it on Saturday and Monday. On Monday, I forget the long lens so I could do macro and get some bokeh. No problem....the 18-200 got in fairly close and the bokeh was really good. It had been raining most of the day Monday but I had enough time to shoot and get to a ride to a rehearsal and before a major deluge.

Post: Camsera Raw Adjustments in PSElements 6.0. Convert to Jpeg. Layer adjustments for levels, brightness/contrast and hue/saturation. Sharpen. New layer of hue/saturation converting to grayscale and a new layer each of levels and brightness/contrast. Curves adjustment to lighten shadows. New layer of hue/saturation, colorize converting to sepia. Crop. Resize. Sharpen.

Statistics
Place: 34 out of 392
Avg (all users): 6.0462
Avg (commenters): 7.5833
Avg (participants): 5.8488
Avg (non-participants): 6.2414
Views since voting: 1012
Views during voting: 259
Votes: 173
Comments: 15
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 05/07/2008 01:39:45 PM
Lovely, and I thought it worked very well in sepia. Glad you found your tree in time!
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
05/06/2008 02:49:14 PM
Nice
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 05/05/2008 09:29:06 AM
nice tones and bokeh
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 05/04/2008 11:30:55 PM
This is a fabulous photograph. Excellent work with the Dogwood. 10
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 05/02/2008 05:44:46 PM
8 - Very nice. Really like the diagonal line the flowers create in the image. The tones are very nice, especially coupled with the nice bokeh at the rear. Can't help wonder about a fraction more 'depth' somehow, perhaps a tweaking of lighting/contrast, not sure - although it looks like this image would be tricky to tweak without blowing the lighter areas, especially in basic. This was comment #4000 for me - a nice image to do it on, thanks.
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 05/01/2008 08:57:49 PM
Nice and sharp. I like the composition and tone,
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 05/01/2008 03:57:29 PM
Sharpm with good texture, detail and composition. I love the mottled background too.
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 05/01/2008 12:50:32 PM
Nice shallow DOF.
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 05/01/2008 12:47:35 PM
Love the dogwood, love the bokeh...
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 05/01/2008 08:01:26 AM
Back to comment and bump: The sepia tone really enhances your image nicely. The composition is wonderful and the lighting was perfect to bring out all of the delicate details. Nicely done. 9
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 04/30/2008 09:22:42 PM
Beautiful shot
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 04/30/2008 02:41:21 PM
Absolutely gorgeous.
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 04/30/2008 12:32:41 PM
love flowers in sepia...background a bit busy for me
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 04/30/2008 11:21:55 AM
Nice Bokeh too
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 04/30/2008 07:21:01 AM
Excellent shot.
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