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Lens: Lensbaby Composer
Location: Mission Creek Estuary
Date: Jan 11, 2009
Aperture: f/2
ISO: 400
Shutter: 1/8000
Galleries: Birds, Lensbaby
Date Uploaded: Jan 11, 2009

Viewed: 461
Comments: 19
Favorites: 2 (view)

 For some reason access to the pier was blocked this morning, so I drove over the the parking lot at East Beach. The water in the foreground is Mission Creek Estuary. Anacapa Island is on the horizon.

I was using the Composer with the plastic optic. Wow! What effects!!! That's a plain old flock of seagulls, not an overlay. I don't know how Lensbaby made them transparent.

Colors were heavily tweaked in curves. The "moon" was actually setting behind me. I cut and pasted from another shot.

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 01/24/2009 04:01:56 PM
Excellent - very odd effect, but very interesting! They seem to have auras, each and every one of them.
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 01/16/2009 05:30:49 AM
Oh, this is just beyond wonderful!
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 01/14/2009 12:33:45 AM
The green...I love the green.
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 01/12/2009 10:54:20 PM
What a moment - that veritable highway of birds. I see this with a closer crop - meaning chop off a lot of the sky at top - to emphasize the "highway" impact even more.
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 01/12/2009 07:07:22 PM
This does have an overlay look. Very nice dream like image.
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 01/12/2009 02:41:04 PM
Damn, now you told us about the moon it looks like you used the eraser brush at 50% opacity. That said I didn't have a clue until I read your notes so it must be a good job :) I think the solitary person sets the scene off nicely.
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 01/11/2009 11:57:44 PM
Love the soft feel, like a dream.
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 01/11/2009 11:52:31 PM
Great effect. Gotta get me some attachments.
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 01/11/2009 11:32:14 PM
This is nice. Really really nice.
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 01/11/2009 11:27:27 PM
Extremely cool shot! I'm thinking I need the plastic optic...
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 01/11/2009 11:24:31 PM
Oh, what a wonderful use for Lensbaby. This is delicious. You blended the moon so well that I didn't realize it was pasted until I read your notes. I like the colors. The green and orange is an unusual combination.
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 01/11/2009 07:25:00 PM
Sheesh. Wonderful, wonderful. Makes me feel good.
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 01/11/2009 07:01:58 PM
Wow is right! I think this is my favorite of yours so far. The gradation of colors in the sky is quite lovely, and the unexpected coloring adds to the mood.
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 01/11/2009 05:37:10 PM
Even though the colors are a little far out, this is a beautiful, ethereal rendering of the scene. Wonderful to stare at well beyond...
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 01/11/2009 05:30:02 PM
just gorgeous. Almost has a feel of Asian Art - the compression/lack of 3d perspective really works. LOVE IT!
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 01/11/2009 05:16:06 PM
Oh GOD....... too fabulous. It has such an "on golden pond" feel. This is truly beautiful.
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 01/11/2009 04:46:54 PM
All seagulls (in fact all birds except chickens) are a little bit transparent G; it's just that ordinary lenses are incapable of seeing it.

I love plastic optics. I have, and wish for, no other.
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 01/11/2009 04:02:02 PM
Wonderful - the gold tone is YUMMY!
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 01/11/2009 03:11:14 PM
I have spent many an hour fishing at Anacapa, actually. I probably fed those gulls' great-grandparents :-) This is a trippy effect. I am wishing, based on yours and Ecce's works, that I had the ability to exchange for the plastic optic; my 3G just has the double-glass, so it's the sharpest of the bunch. That's why I keep going OOF deliberately :-)
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