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Autumn Leaves
Autumn Leaves
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Challenge: Rock Song Titles (Advanced Editing VII)
Camera: Canon EOS-40D
Lens: Canon EF 85mm f/1.8 USM
Location: Taupo, NZ
Date: Mar 26, 2009
Aperture: 2.8
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/4000
Date Uploaded: Mar 26, 2009

 Autumn Leaves is a song by a German band called Evereve, they're a bit of a metal/punk/cyber/weird shit band.

The song is actually talking about Autumn leaving, so it becomes winter and all goes cold and dark. I think so at least.

Processing consists of levels/curves on leaf and dirt separately. Most of the stuff was done in Lightroom such as clarity all the way up, warming it up a bit with white balance, lowering brightness and raising contrast, increasing saturation in the yellows and reds and adding a slight vignette. In PS I highpassed everything to make it pop a little bit.

I sharpened this with Manny Librodo's technique with the lighten/darken blending mode thing.

Resize, sharpen, SFW, try and find title to fit ;)

I don't normally take pictures of leaves and plants and what have you but I like this. I like the simplicity and the colours and the warmth and the fact that it is what it is- an autumnal leaf that fell from the tree (it's autumn here in NZ by the way).

Still, I predict a 6.0!

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Place: 74 out of 175
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
04/05/2009 08:07:24 PM
Love the lighting.
 04/01/2009 09:50:12 PM
I like your vignetting on this one, and it has a good album cover feeling to it
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 04/01/2009 04:55:51 PM
lovely shot.........very dramatic
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 04/01/2009 04:12:53 PM
Nice shot. Very symbolic.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 03/30/2009 06:26:13 PM
I like the vignette here and the light. Photo is a bit small, you can go to 720 pixels wide for a member challenge. An 8 from me.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 03/30/2009 03:36:07 PM
Simple yet beautiful! Nice!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 03/30/2009 03:43:57 AM
Nice tone in this image
  Photographer found comment helpful.


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