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Challenge: Free Study XII (Advanced Editing IV*)
Camera: Canon PowerShot G3
Location: Albuquerque, NM
Date: Aug 26, 2006
Aperture: f/2.0
ISO: 50
Shutter: 1/500 sec
Galleries: Animals, Floral
Date Uploaded: Aug 26, 2006

This is a bee on a flowering plant in my front yard.

Converted from RAW: created an HDR image using three different exposures of one RAW file.

PS:
Hue/Sat
Brightness/Contrast
NI
Gaussian Blur on the sky
Dodging and burning on the bee
Spot healed a hot pixel or two
Cloned a little bit here and there
Crop
Resize
Sharpen
Save for Web

Statistics
Place: 441 out of 684
Avg (all users): 5.3858
Avg (commenters): 6.0625
Avg (participants): 5.3265
Avg (non-participants): 5.5862
Views since voting: 640
Views during voting: 339
Votes: 254
Comments: 19
Favorites: 1 (view)


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09/08/2006 11:21:00 AM
This would have creamed in soft focus. Adding to my fav.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
09/07/2006 07:41:31 AM
Like the colors and PP.
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09/07/2006 01:51:03 AM
The blurring looks a little out of place. But I love your colors
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09/05/2006 11:10:32 AM
This has to be one of the best bee photographs I have seen. I love the soft colors. Nice job on your post edits! Bumping Up! 8
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09/04/2006 06:11:53 AM
Lovely and soft.
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09/03/2006 03:00:11 PM
-Nice shallow DOF
-Cool, unique framing
-Score: 6
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09/03/2006 07:51:28 AM
interesting but too glowy for me. nice colors. 6
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09/03/2006 06:30:44 AM
Pretty. Looking at it, Im sure you soft focused on purpose. I like the glow of the honey bee.
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09/03/2006 04:26:29 AM
Very fantasy-like. 7.
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09/03/2006 03:45:22 AM
great title and a nice colour pallete here...like the soft focus
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09/02/2006 07:49:07 PM
Colors are vibrant, but the yellow-orange hue on the honeybee appears a tad too vibrant. It almost glows on my screen. The lavender hues appear fine it is just that there seems to be too much saturation which is very evident from the stripes on the honeybee. Composition is average and could be better if you brought the viewer in for a closer look - A closer crop to the bee and the flowers it is near would improve this composition. The bee would be your main focus with a few flowers being the supporting cast.
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09/02/2006 01:45:33 PM
I love the colors here and the DOF works very well.
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09/02/2006 12:28:36 PM
Love the glow of the bee. The white stuff, esp on the right is distracting in the background.
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09/02/2006 07:51:30 AM
Nice processing on this one. Looks very magical. Love the almost neon looking stripes on the bee.
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09/01/2006 07:24:27 PM
Great composition. The bee is off to the side and in focus while the rest of the background has a nice soft focus which causes he bee to stand out. Love the color.
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09/01/2006 11:18:37 AM
Overprocessed
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09/01/2006 07:10:19 AM
Great colors. But the pic seems way too processed. 5
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09/01/2006 05:05:07 AM
I would like this better if the bee was more in focus since it is the subject.
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09/01/2006 02:51:14 AM
This is a great capture and lovely colors. The bee is a little oof though.
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