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Newt
Newt
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Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Camera: Sony DSC-F707
Location: Somewhere along the Oregon Coast
Date: Feb 15, 2004
Aperture: 2.4
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/30
Galleries: Nature, Black and White
Date Uploaded: Jan 2, 2011

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Comments: 11
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 A little newt I found. Obviously I wish it were sharper, but I can't turn the clock back 7 years. Still one of my favorite photos.

Lightroom
Preset - PH Naturally BW
Reduced Black Clipping done by preset
Increased highlight recovery
Bumped exposure a tad

Photoshop CS5
Cloned a bit of leaf out on the bottom
Topaz DeNoise
Levels
Burned the edges of the eye a little
Gaussian blurred some heavy noise from his back
Resized
Sharpening tool
Resized
Sharpening tool

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 01/08/2011 12:55:21 PM
I'm enjoying your DSC-F707 images, this camera was my first serious digital camera & I wore it out. The Newt looks so cute, wearing the leaf-hat. Good work PP.
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 01/03/2011 11:01:49 PM
Love it - like a silent film newt. So dramatique.
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 01/03/2011 10:03:36 PM
Very creative!! Love it!!!
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 01/03/2011 08:54:32 PM
I like that it isn't in focus as well. I think it brings some nice mystery to the image in addition to the black and white.
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 01/03/2011 08:20:02 PM
I'm glad it isn't any sharper, leaves enough so you know what it is, but enough so you have to think about the rest.
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 01/03/2011 08:17:54 PM
It does look like an ultrasound photo of a newt wearing a beret, lovely soft feel about it. I wouldn't change it at all.
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 01/03/2011 06:40:17 PM
Great POV. He really is a shy little critter. Terrific deception created with the B&W conversion.
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 01/03/2011 06:10:53 AM
That's very pretty - and the lack of sharpness suits the image. The mono conversion works well on this one.
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 01/03/2011 05:30:55 AM
i've looked and looked .. i've even googled newts so i could see what they look like and i just cant see him ..
i can see what looks like a flower on the rhs and i'm thinking the newt is sort'v hiding behind it .. wearing it like a cap .. does the newt look like a baby ?!!
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 01/02/2011 10:54:02 PM
now that is a perspective I have not seen, fantastic
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 01/02/2011 10:52:22 PM
How cute!
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