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Do we not bleed?
Do we not bleed?
jperez1690


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Challenge: Botany (Advanced Editing II)
Camera: Canon EOS-300D Rebel
Location: Flagstaff, Arizona
Date: Aug 14, 2004
Aperture: f/22
ISO: 100
Shutter: 30 sec.
Galleries: Nature, Floral
Date Uploaded: Aug 15, 2004

 I shot this image in the front yard using some light painting during a long exposure at dusk. The exposure was f/22 for 30 seconds. The red was painted by waving a laser pointer across the tops of the thyme. The blue foreground light comes from a novelty pen with a blue light. I chose dusk to allow the red and blue light to build up better during a long exposure.

Post-processing:

- Curves to boost lightness, contrast and color saturation.
Some red-lit areas were too hot. So I masked those by duping the red channel and hiking the contrast. Then I used that mask with "Apply Image" to bring the blue channel in at 50% Darken. This brought some detail back into the overly red leaf tips.

-Masked the pruners and used a separate set of curves to lighten and enhance saturation moreso than the rest of the image.

- Cloned out some hot reflections on the pruners, and a distracting dead twig I didn't notice when taking the shot.

- Selective sharpening on the pruner and the lichen covered rock.

- Dodge & Burn to bring out the lichen, and some of the plant matter toward the upper right, and to softly darken the edges.

- Gaussian blur of the background to help narrow the depth of field.

- Added a border.

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 Comments Made During the Challenge
08/22/2004 12:58:30 AM
Again, I'm looking for art in nature, not comments about how plants feel, communicate or bleed. That would be "conversations with nature".
 08/20/2004 04:31:46 PM
interesting take on the challenge. lovely colors and mood.
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 08/16/2004 08:50:29 PM
Very good, very creative. Great use of color. I loved the darkened corners
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 08/16/2004 07:48:58 PM
Wonderful image. I showed it to my wife and she felt you had pasted the clipper into the photo. We looked at it way blown up and if so, you did a great job. I concluded it is a straight up shot, well executed, and well titled. Colors, focus, DOF and composition are very nice. Good luck.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 08/16/2004 03:12:49 PM
This scene is so pleasing - I want to reach in and yank thet tool out of there. (I really hope you took it without the clipper.)
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 08/16/2004 08:25:07 AM
Very clever. And obviously you talk to the plants?! Somewhat grainy for this scene.
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 08/16/2004 06:56:28 AM
The shears look a bit out of place with them just stuck in the ground and no hand holding them. Lots of nice color, but little on the detail. This shot looks to me more of a gardening photograph rather than a botanical one.
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