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Challenge: Bokeh VI (Basic Editing)
Collection: 2010-11-12
Camera: Nikon D200
Lens: Sigma 150mm f/2.8 EX APO Macro EX DG HSM for Nikon
Location: Trail, BC (Canada)
Date: May 17, 2010
Aperture: f5.6
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/1000 sec
Galleries: Abstract, Macro
Date Uploaded: May 18, 2010

 -Converted to TIFF/16 using Photomatix.

-Opened in PSCS4.
-Converted to Lab mode
-Added 2 curves adjustment layers, one for lightness, the other for colour; blended in normal with original
-Converted to RGB/16 mode
-Curves adjustment layer, manual adjustment, blended with original in normal
-Converted to RGB/8, used variations to adjust light/dark/saturation
-Downsized for DPC, sharpened and NN (a couple times, very little each time)
-Added white border, saved for web


Statistics
Place: 9 out of 347
Avg (all users): 6.5847
Avg (commenters): 9.0833
Avg (participants): 6.3409
Avg (non-participants): 6.8105
Views since voting: 3134
Views during voting: 355
Votes: 183
Comments: 39
Favorites: 27 (view)

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 07/08/2010 05:19:27 AM
Just WOW! ...and add to favs!
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 05/26/2010 05:19:24 PM
Wow, that is awesome!
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 05/26/2010 04:27:12 PM
wow! beautiful.
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 05/26/2010 04:20:10 PM
Love Love Love this - such a gorgeous, soft overlay of textures and light
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 05/26/2010 01:19:16 PM
Congrats on your awesome place. This is another great shot from Ursula's style.... Love it.
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 05/26/2010 10:27:52 AM
Just beautiful, a highly unusual shot and my favorite of all (did not vote).
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 05/26/2010 06:28:01 AM
Wonderful!!!
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 05/26/2010 06:09:31 AM
Fantastic stuff. Beautiful visual experience.
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 05/26/2010 03:23:54 AM
I love this :) And it's probably one of the only photos that meets the challenge in the top 10, therefore should have won in my eyes :)

Message edited by author 2010-05-26 05:02:46.
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 05/26/2010 03:05:27 AM
Beautiful work
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 05/26/2010 02:56:28 AM
This was my favourite from this challenge. Absolutely divine.
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 05/26/2010 01:33:44 AM
Lovely shot!! It's leading my imagination.
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 05/26/2010 01:22:19 AM
You have mastered this technique, Ursula. This image just makes my heart swell. Glorious.
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 05/26/2010 12:29:35 AM
Lovely!
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 05/26/2010 12:22:43 AM
Woo hoo! Long live the Salsify! Congrats Ursula. Look at your voting patters. Weird! :)
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 05/26/2010 12:14:26 AM
Awesome finish, Ursula! The team's proud of you.
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 05/26/2010 12:13:46 AM
You are so in touch!
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 05/26/2010 12:09:50 AM
Ohhhhh!!! Congrats on Top 10...you are AWESOME!!!!
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 05/26/2010 12:07:59 AM
Beautiful Ursula, congrats.
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 05/26/2010 12:07:11 AM
Just faved this one... beautiful.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
05/25/2010 10:34:31 PM
My out-and-out favourite in this challenge. Originally gave it a 9 and have just bumped it up a notch to 10. Excellent bokeh and absolutely stunning image all round. Well done... hope to see this ribbon. Deserves the blue IMO.
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 05/25/2010 09:40:24 PM
No idea, but it's awesome. Truly awesome. 10
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 05/25/2010 09:21:18 AM
Very cool. One of my favorites so far.

... back to add that it IS my favorite from this challenge, it's GOING in my favorites, and I would be delighted to see this on the upper left of the front page.

If this isn't ursula, I think she'd be proud to call this her own. Great work.
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 05/25/2010 01:59:07 AM
Just beautiful!
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 05/23/2010 09:16:52 PM
Very abstract, pleasing to the eye.
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 05/23/2010 04:32:00 PM
I don't know what is this and how is this produced. And I don't really care! Because this is beautiful!
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 05/22/2010 06:09:37 AM
Stunning!
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 05/21/2010 01:30:33 AM
hmmm.. excellent
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 05/20/2010 11:21:31 PM
Glorious! Love it!
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 05/20/2010 03:58:14 AM
Extremely appealing in its simplicity. This is a keeper.
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 05/19/2010 09:13:45 PM
I smell a ribbon here. This is a fantasy, a dream, a cloud. It is a poem and a whisper and a wink. A fave
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 05/19/2010 12:33:59 PM
This image reminds me to appreciate the lightness of being just within a simple bubble anchored to the world and yet surrounded and encompassed by the glorious and ethereal light. I love this image! (I'm going to sneak at least one "BRAVO!" in here because you really deserve it!)
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 05/19/2010 11:25:49 AM
nice abstract
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 05/19/2010 06:25:03 AM
magical!
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 05/19/2010 12:52:00 AM
wow. not even really sure what this is... but I love it!
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 05/19/2010 12:45:00 AM
Best image in the challenge (yes, it's early and I didn't actually look at them all...I'm just that sure.)

ursula?
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 05/19/2010 12:16:17 AM
Exquisitly delicate
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 05/19/2010 12:15:24 AM
Lovely abstract image.
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 05/19/2010 12:10:21 AM
i really like it..
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