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Challenge: Upside Down II (Basic Editing)
Collection: Flowers and Bugs
Camera: Nikon D200
Lens: Sigma 100-300mm F/4.0 EX IF HSM for Nikon
Location: Springfield, VA
Date: Aug 7, 2007
Aperture: f/4
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/350
Galleries: Floral, Insects, etc
Date Uploaded: Aug 7, 2007
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With all the controversy about the challenge description and people being on butterfly/flower overload I will be quite happy with a 5! I was not upside down (I am not coordinated enough to risk my equipment in that position) but I crouched down under the bush to get the underside of the butterfly looking up at him from a slight angle. It's a different perspective from what I usually try to get with butterflies, anyway. Could have used a little more DOF but too late now.
PP - converted from RAW, rotated left to get an angle I liked better, cropped, increased saturation on red/yellow/orange range, levels, decreased saturation on green range and shifted slightly bluer, USM, added border, resized, sharpened with noise reduction |
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09/10/2007 07:39:46 PM |
A beautiful dreamy capture :)
The tones and subtleness of the colors is excellent. A pleasing image which looks like it was taken on an overcast day? |
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08/15/2007 08:22:03 AM |
| Mary, congrats on your top 20! I was one of your high scores on this - I think it's absolutely lovely with great colors and bokeh. |
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08/14/2007 08:56:41 PM |
| wow Mary, haven't "seen" you in awhile! Great finish, this is a stunner. |
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08/13/2007 01:19:44 AM |
| Love the colors in this photo. Feels like early morning... very peacful. |
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08/11/2007 04:30:00 AM |
| beautiful image - love the richness of the background and the softness of the colors 9 |
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08/09/2007 07:05:54 PM |
Awesome colors here - very, very appealing palette. Your focus & dof is excellent & the bokeh of that lens you're using is absolutely dreamy! I really enjoy the repeating triangular theme & how the composition is divided by it.
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08/09/2007 03:25:39 AM |
| Nice work. The contrast of colours works well. |
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08/08/2007 02:18:11 PM |
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