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Challenge: Threes (Advanced Editing II)
Collection: Challenge Photos
Camera: Canon EOS-10D
Lens: Peleng 8mm f/3.5 Fisheye MC In M42 Mount
Location: A roadside in Hubertus, WI
Date: May 28, 2004
Aperture: f/11
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/200
Galleries: Landscape, Floral
Date Uploaded: May 28, 2004

 Peleng 8mm fisheye lens, "adapted" for close focus.

Editing:
- Cropped
- Adjusted curves & hue/sat (selective & global)
- Sharpened
- Cloned out a few small distractions
- Shadow/highlight
- Resized
- Resharpened
- Selective soft focus
- A final tweak to color

Statistics
Place: 15 out of 205
Avg (all users): 6.5946
Avg (commenters): 8.0435
Avg (participants): 6.5043
Avg (non-participants): 6.7500
Views since voting: 3954
Votes: 185
Comments: 26
Favorites: 4 (view)

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 08/13/2005 03:29:51 PM
Lovely bright crisp shot. Methinks I should look into getting an ultra-wide lens of some kind...
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 08/14/2004 01:20:02 PM
awesome use of fisheye. how fast does your lens combo here focus?
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
06/06/2004 07:31:01 PM
I usually do not like flower shots. This one is great! I love the use of extreme wide angle on this shot. Great sharpness and detail on the flowers. Which lens did you use? 8
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 06/05/2004 10:20:07 AM
I am dying to know how you got those flowers to show the white so well. Mine always come out with a yellow tinge. That is an amazing use of focus and color. Thanks for submitting it.
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 06/04/2004 07:41:55 PM
love your lighting
beautiful clarity and colors
the close cropping is wonderful
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 06/04/2004 06:46:12 PM
Nice use of DOF to bring out the three subjects. Color and exposure are very good. I would have pulled a couple of weeds on either side...
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 06/04/2004 02:38:35 PM
Love the wide "in your face" composition. Reasonable balance between foreground and background. I think it would be more effective with a more Velvia saturation. 8
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 06/04/2004 12:05:42 PM
Beautiful shot, the light looks very bright but has not spoilt the shot, well done.
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 06/04/2004 07:23:37 AM
Beautiful colors, and lovely sharpness to this shot. This would be one of the better daisy shots in this challenge, I think.
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 06/04/2004 06:32:19 AM
Bright, clear cheery--everything a photo of daisies should be! I like the use of the wide angle lens here. 9
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 06/04/2004 02:57:36 AM
By far my fav in the challenge. I just like the look of it, even though I think that the white is overwhelming in a few places and people will say that the lens distortion is annoying, but I think it adds to the shot. Great!
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 06/03/2004 03:02:20 PM
The very best of the flower shots.
9
clean crisp, well composed image

edit, the more i look at this, the more i like it.
Bumped for 9 to a BIG 10

Good luck.
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 06/03/2004 01:58:02 PM
Wow. I love the colors and level of saturation here. The distortion adds a nice effect too.... 8
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 06/02/2004 06:22:50 AM
Nice shastas.
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 06/01/2004 07:53:38 PM
I really like the wide angle view of this. It really makes the daisies pop. Good job!
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 06/01/2004 01:57:06 PM
outstanding 9
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 06/01/2004 12:26:00 PM
daisies rock. great choice, beautiful capture. perfect focus.
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 06/01/2004 09:51:41 AM
Although excellent in its current composition, I think it would have been better with the sky as the background/neg space vs trees and other daisies.
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 06/01/2004 09:38:29 AM
Just when I thought I had seen all the beautiful flowers that could be done -- this one. One of my two top picks. The lighting and composition couldn't be better.
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 05/31/2004 11:25:11 PM
Very crisp, I really love the colors, just beautiful. Good luck...
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 05/31/2004 01:04:16 PM
nice use of composition and DOF
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 05/31/2004 11:05:34 AM
Lovely, my top 5~good luck. Compliments only.
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 05/31/2004 07:44:46 AM
Greta exposure control - wonderful colors and contrast.
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 05/30/2004 11:06:27 PM
Best flower shot. well composed. looks like a fish eye lens. 10
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 05/30/2004 09:05:15 PM
To me this is the winner. I love this shot. I am curious what lens you used.
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 05/30/2004 08:32:24 PM
Nicely done...they're really going for it. 9
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