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Life without Green
Life without Green
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Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Centered Composition (Advanced Editing II)
Camera: Canon EOS-10D
Location: Home pond
Date: May 16, 2004
Aperture: 1/90
ISO: 100
Shutter: f9.5
Galleries: Nature, Macro
Date Uploaded: May 16, 2004

Frog in garden pond

PS Work -
Crop
Brightness/Contrast
Burn in some of the green chickweed to even the lighting/tone
Dodge frogs nose and eye
USM + sharpen
Saturation - Fully Desaturate the green and yellow channels to take out the green chickweed and conentrate the eye on the frog.
Re-adjust contrast/brightness
Shadow/Highlight to bring tonal ranges in

Exif data -

Canon EOS 10D
Shooting Date/Time
16/05/2004 12:08:46
Shooting Mode
Aperture-Priority AE
Tv( Shutter Speed )
1/90
Av( Aperture Value )
9.5
Metering Mode
Center-weighted averaging
Exposure Compensation
-1/2
ISO Speed
100
Lens
75.0 - 300.0mm (Image Stabalizer)
Focal Length
300.0mm
Image Size
3072x2048
Image Quality
RAW
Flash
Off
White Balance
Auto
AF Mode
AI Servo AF
Parameters
Contrast Normal
Sharpness Normal
Color saturation Normal
Color tone Normal
Color Space
Adobe RGB

Statistics
Place: 14 out of 240
Avg (all users): 6.6000
Avg (commenters): 7.8889
Avg (participants): 6.4234
Avg (non-participants): 6.9322
Views since voting: 1700
Votes: 170
Comments: 11
Favorites: 1 (view)


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 Comments Made During the Challenge
05/23/2004 07:53:14 PM
That's a nice moment. Good focus on the dead center.
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05/20/2004 10:55:26 PM
Great shot!
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05/20/2004 07:54:38 AM
Technically, near-perfect. The array of those small leaves gives good blance to the idea of a centred composition here, and allows this shot to work. The de-saturation of the leaves is a personal choice of course - but likewise, it's a personal bugbear for me (one of the things such techniques opens you up to in a peer-voted competition), and I cannot see a justification for it here, can't see what it adds, beyond a suggestion of shudder-value, of distaste. Makes it look like the thing is emerging from seware, rather than water. Great capture, for me let down by your processing. 6
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05/19/2004 09:18:35 PM
Wonderful capture of froggy. I'd much rather see the colour of his environment personally. But experimenting is fun, and I applaud your efforts. :-)
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05/19/2004 06:39:06 PM
Normally I love selective desaturation. This one is leaving me wanting more. Possibly if you hadn't completely removed it all, left just a touch the image would have worked better for me.. of course this is just my opinion. It's a great shot. So it's all a matter of taste, I love seeing the little bits of her legs showing. 8
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05/19/2004 10:40:59 AM
Cleverly done and very effective.
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05/17/2004 11:51:00 PM
seems like a lucky catch! nice one
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05/17/2004 10:49:21 PM
Very cool. How did you get all the green out of the algae and still keep it in the frog?
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05/17/2004 09:39:29 PM
great idea ... 9
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05/17/2004 06:22:51 AM
Very interesting composition with the color contrast between the gold subject and desaturated tiny leaves. Flash here is a bit too harsh, but not overly so. Well done.
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05/17/2004 03:57:35 AM
Wow, I'd like to see details on this photo, what is the frog coming up through. Don't like the border, but not taking away points, as this is simply an awesome pic.
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