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Negative Ficus Elastica Variegata
Negative Ficus Elastica Variegata
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Challenge: In The Style Of: sherpet (Advanced Editing VII)
Collection: 2011 Challenges
Camera: Canon Power Shot SX10 IS
Location: Ballarat, Vic. Australia
Date: Aug 23, 2011
Aperture: 4.5
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/40
Date Uploaded: Aug 23, 2011

 This plant was on display in the hot house at the Ballarat Botanical Gardens.
I wanted this to be square because a lot of sherpet's images are. I got close but not absolutely. As it is I've cropped in a bit too tightly to leaf tips at top and bottom. I tried another version with more room, but it was too far off square and didn't look quite right proportion wise. I chose to do this in negative because as shez has several negative images in her port folio I thought that this was therefore a legitimate way to achieve the colourfulness that I associate with her.

Open PSCS3
Crop and rotate slightly
Duplicate layer
Topaz Detail
Select background layer
Topaz denoise strong
Select layer one
Magic wand select background
Cut pixels
Flatten
Clone out small imperfection in background
Save as TIFF

Open in Picasa
Export to Picnik
Auto fix
Invert
Boost
Vignette

Open in PSCS3 again
Border
Clone tool, remove a couple of little white spots in top left leaf
Image size
SFW



Enjoy!

Statistics
Place: 22 out of 120
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Avg (commenters): 7.8889
Avg (participants): 6.2029
Avg (non-participants): 6.5696
Views since voting: 1199
Views during voting: 251
Votes: 148
Comments: 9
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
08/30/2011 06:36:15 AM
Lovely pp 9.
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 08/30/2011 01:22:13 AM
very creative and colourful. nice job
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 08/29/2011 07:44:48 PM
NOW THIS is just BRILLIANT.....LOVE THE RICH ORANGE colored background and the CLever idea of an invert image in the middle Very pleasing to the eye in a bright colorful stong image that I hang on my wall...Love the way you have done the border in my favorite square crop style...
A TRUE STYLE SHERPET

EXCELLENT

THANK YOU for entering this beautiful COLORED NEGITIVE image
from shez with love xox
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 08/29/2011 03:08:46 PM
This turned out really nicely. Fun colors and nice diagonal composition..
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 08/25/2011 08:56:07 AM
Relly jumps out of the screen,top shot.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 08/24/2011 07:48:44 AM
Very cool.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 08/24/2011 05:31:03 AM
This is wonderful! One of my 3 tens.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 08/24/2011 03:50:55 AM
Gorgeous contrast!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 08/24/2011 02:14:59 AM
Nice idea with the border.
  Photographer found comment helpful.


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