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Challenge: Leading Lines V (Basic Editing)
Camera: Canon EOS-550D Rebel T2i
Lens: Canon EF-S 55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS
Location: Athens Botanical Garden
Date: Feb 8, 2011
Aperture: f/5.6
ISO: 3600
Shutter: 1/125
Date Uploaded: Feb 8, 2011

 Photo was taken midday indoors but under a glass roof (botanical garden). Had to focus through some leaves to get this shot, so never had the ability to change my angle without the lens being obscured by the leaves. Unfortunately, this meant I had to tolerate the brightspot on the right hand side of the frog. I tried to tone this down by switching to monotone sepia, which worked pretty well, and doesn't seem as blown out.

Also, was shooting at very high iso 3600 since I had my 55-250 lens on max aperture of f/5.6 and was struggling with shake (no tripod)..needed to bump the iso up to get shorter shutter speeds...so suffered from a noisy that seems a little out of focus.

PP was simple:
DeNoise
Adjusted some sliders in LR3 (exposure, brightness, blacks etc)
DeNoise
Resize

Statistics
Place: 42 out of 123
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Views since voting: 730
Views during voting: 274
Votes: 178
Comments: 8
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 02/17/2011 05:58:14 PM
Nice shot! This definitely caught my attention here in this challenge. I do agree that it would be neat if it were sharper and the white spot was toned down a bit... IMO, the composition is perfect.
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 02/17/2011 01:09:10 AM
Congrats on your PB!!!
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 02/15/2011 07:04:55 PM
Congrats on the new PB! You beat mine by a comfortable margin.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
02/14/2011 01:20:15 PM
Effective lines leading to the subject. Wondering if b/w rather than sepia would be more pleasing.
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 02/14/2011 05:52:21 AM
nice job
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 02/09/2011 01:05:47 PM
Pretty good but I would have cropped out some of the bottom where the leafs are damaged.
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 02/08/2011 08:20:15 PM
Hey! There he is! Glad you discovered Topaz.
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 02/08/2011 07:49:53 PM
I really like it!
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