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Christmas Emotions Are Fragile
Christmas Emotions Are Fragile
Dr.Confuser


Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Free Study 2008-12 (Advanced Editing VII)
Camera: Nikon D3
Lens: Nikon AF-S Zoom-Nikkor 70-300mm f/4.5-5.6G IF-ED VR
Location: Kirkland, Washington USA
Date: Dec 28, 2008
Aperture: f/32
ISO: 800
Shutter: 4 Seconds
Galleries: Emotive, Macro
Date Uploaded: Dec 28, 2008

 Photographer’s Notes
I was fooling around with my camera trying to capture the feeling a child has at Christmas. Do you remember the excitement? How everything seemed to sparkle? The rich colors … reds, greens, silver and gold? I shot a similar image with a different ball and different lighting for the “All I Want for Christmas” challenge; and it scored better than I thought it would.

I think this one is better, but there were a lot of Christmas Balls in the last challenge, too many and I fear voters may be tiring of them. Maybe the genre will hold up for … one … more … challenge!

Post Processing
• Convert from RAW (PSCS4)
• Reduce Noise (Neat Image)
• Saturate (Hue/Saturation Layer)
• Remove Dust (Clone Layer)
• Crop
• Resize (Bicubic Sharper)
• Sharpen (USM)
• Selective Blur (Masked Gaussian Blur)
• Border Blur (Masked Gaussian Blur)
• Hairline Border (Stroke layer)
• Save for Web

Camera Data
• Date: 2008-12-20
• Camera: Nikon D3
• Lens: 70-300 mm @ 300 mm
• ISO: 800
• Aperture: f/32
• Shutter: 4 Seconds

Statistics
Place: 192 out of 407
Avg (all users): 5.6420
Avg (commenters): 7.2500
Avg (participants): 5.6126
Avg (non-participants): 5.7059
Views since voting: 832
Views during voting: 255
Votes: 162
Comments: 9
Favorites: 0

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AuthorThread
 01/08/2009 05:01:10 PM
This scored a lot better than mine, maybe I should've shot some Xmas lights instead, LOL.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
01/04/2009 10:23:05 AM
Really nice lighting and coloring. I normally dont have a reaction to borders, but I really like this one, it adds alot to the shot.
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 01/03/2009 07:17:01 PM
greeting card quality...nice
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 01/03/2009 07:40:00 AM
hmmm, I think I know who's this is...like the color and your ball is hanging more "freely" nice framing ;)
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 01/01/2009 07:29:14 PM
Simply beautiful!! 9
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 01/01/2009 06:43:10 AM
Nice colors and background.
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 01/01/2009 03:55:26 AM
Terrific focus!! I like the blurred frame as well. Nice.
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 01/01/2009 01:06:16 AM
how true .. !!..
great shot .. excellent colours .. love your border . :)
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 12/31/2008 07:05:50 PM
A perfect Christmas card!
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