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Collection: 2008-08 30 Days of Flowers
Camera: Nikon D200
Lens: Nikon AF Nikkor 50mm f/1.4D
Location: Springfield, VA
Date: Aug 4, 2008
Aperture: f/8
ISO: 800
Shutter: 1/250
Galleries: Macro, Floral
Date Uploaded: Aug 4, 2008
Viewed: 325
Comments: 13
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Day 5 of 30 Days of Flowers
One of my very favorite flowers, the Morning Glory. I've done lots of shots of them so decided to play with processing on this one ... plus it was grainier than I wanted in places so some rescue was in order. Now it looks like the center is rising out of a deep blue sea like one of those old movies where Esther Williams rose up on a lighted platform ... to me, anyway ;-) Love the color, even though it's dark. And no visible bugs (I cloned them out!).
12mm extension tube; in retrospect I could have gotten a better shot without it since the sun hadn't really hit that part of the yard yet.
PP - converted from RAW (increased shadows significantly and corrected some for noise), cropped, white balance, levels, cloned out bugs, decreased gamma, 2nd layer (Gaussian blur, brightened, merged in multiply mode), resized, sharpened with noise reduction. |
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08/08/2008 01:39:52 PM |
| It really glows.. This is beautiful, you did a great job |
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08/06/2008 09:31:17 PM |
| the glow of this morning glory is fantastic - great job |
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08/05/2008 09:58:29 PM |
| WOW is all that I can say. It almost looks like the sun is coming up, or the moon is going down...... |
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08/05/2008 03:56:57 PM |
| Very mysterious!! Looks like a tiny little alien emerging from the light. WOW! |
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08/05/2008 01:48:15 PM |
I'll ditto the violinist. Fantastic.
Scotty, we need more power from the anti thrusters!" |
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08/05/2008 10:15:29 AM |
| Wow, it's like it's lit from within, amazing. |
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08/05/2008 08:13:59 AM |
| Truly clever capture - like a light coming from within! |
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08/05/2008 07:50:04 AM |
| A stunning image, the lighting is perfect. |
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08/05/2008 03:45:40 AM |
| I tend to make my comment before reading others so not to get influenced by what has been said before, but I just stopped myself with this one. I was about to write "looks like a little nighlight shining in the dark" and then I did happen to read quiche's comment. Anyway, it does. It's really a lovely flower. |
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08/04/2008 11:48:03 PM |
| Cool. I like the way it looks like a glowing light is emerging from the flower. |
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08/04/2008 10:55:05 PM |
| I always comment before reading other comments, and I see that it's unanimous - your garden is full of black holes! |
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08/04/2008 10:54:30 PM |
Embrace the grain, be the grain...
It's a black hole sucking all those rich blues into it, and a bolt of energy escaping to mark the event. This is great. |
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08/04/2008 10:01:34 PM |
| This reminds me a picture of a black hole in space - this is awesome! |
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