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Challenge: Dappled Light (Basic Editing)
Camera: Canon EOS-350D Rebel XT
Lens: Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS USM
Location: San Antonio Botanical Gardens
Date: May 14, 2008
Aperture: 2.8
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/400
Galleries: Nature
Date Uploaded: May 14, 2008

 Ol_Possum and I went out to shoot thinking this would be a good challenge to try out her new Nikon 40d. We found this gazing ball at the San Antonio Botanical Gardens, and it was just begging to be shot. If you look very closely you can see us both standing in front of it as well as the clouds in the reflections. I was testing out lenses from Rent Photo Stuff that I rented to do a wedding a few days later.

Here's hoping it does well.

Shot in Raw (IMG_5290)

Raw Adjustments
Temperature to 5200
Exposure +.25
Brightness +60
contrast +24
Saturation +20

Crop to 1x1 aspect ratio
Adjustment layers levels
Adjustment Layer Hue and Sat

Resize to 640x640 at 72 Resolution
Save for Web optimized at 150k


Since so many weren't sure what it is... Here's an unedited (reized for web only) outtake .

Statistics
Place: 58 out of 115
Avg (all users): 5.3868
Avg (commenters): 5.4167
Avg (participants): 5.2449
Avg (non-participants): 5.4294
Views since voting: 737
Views during voting: 359
Votes: 212
Comments: 13
Favorites: 0

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 Comments Made During the Challenge
05/27/2008 09:55:13 AM
interesting shot but iw ould have cropped some of the negative space on left out
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 05/27/2008 09:36:24 AM
i like how you did this. nice job.
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 05/26/2008 10:13:55 PM
Somethin about this shot makes me stop and look. As well, I like sparkly glass things. Nice shot and one of my ribbon picks.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 05/24/2008 10:46:29 AM
Neat image. What is it?
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 05/23/2008 10:36:35 PM
A marble? Very original and nicely done.
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 05/23/2008 09:19:26 AM
the overall sharpness of your image really makes it stand out
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 05/23/2008 06:22:01 AM
different concept - nice
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 05/22/2008 02:43:20 PM
Nice colours and reflections.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 05/22/2008 01:44:16 PM
Really well saturated colors! it's always tempting to overdo colors in post production but in your case, you've controlled the intensity very well
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 05/22/2008 08:47:29 AM
What is this? A bit too mysterious to me... Maybe a bit more ball to the pic and 1/10 cropped from left and up.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 05/21/2008 09:31:07 PM
Dont really understand, but love the colors and dappled light
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 05/21/2008 08:49:27 PM
Interesting...
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 05/21/2008 05:24:55 PM
Nice complementary colours. I like the idea. No idea what it is, but reminds me of an Earth pictures made from space.
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