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Pretty in Red
Pretty in Red
aliqui


Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Best of 2011 (Advanced Editing VII)
Camera: Nikon D300s
Lens: Sigma 105mm f/2.8 EX DG Macro for Nikon
Location: My patio
Date: Oct 8, 2011
Aperture: f/16
ISO: 640
Shutter: 1/200 sec
Date Uploaded: Jan 21, 2012

 It's been awhile, but I'm quite certain there was at least 1 flash and 1 reflector involved here.

Lightroom 2
Wonderland Preset - A-Game 2
Red hue shift
Played with the green and red saturation and luminance

Photoshop CS5
Topaz Adjust Preset - Daylight Film in Tungsten II
Some dodging and burning on separate layers
Highpass layer to sharpen
Levels and Brightness/Contrast layers
Selective Color layer to clear up the whites and umph the blacks and greys a little
Tossed up ghetto black layer with low opacity to darken the whole image because I'm lazy
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Statistics
Place: 78 out of 410
Avg (all users): 6.3966
Avg (commenters): 7.8636
Avg (participants): 6.3557
Avg (non-participants): 6.5814
Views since voting: 661
Views during voting: 451
Votes: 237
Comments: 27
Favorites: 3 (view)

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 07/25/2014 10:23:00 AM
Wow! A lovely combination of colors, details, and lines. Striking.
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 07/24/2014 09:45:02 AM
Detail. Color. Sharpness. Beauty.
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 07/23/2014 01:05:21 PM
Amazing light. The detail and textures are stunning.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
02/23/2012 09:06:52 AM
Great colour and clarity along with really good lighting.
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 02/22/2012 10:15:26 AM
Great detail and color.
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 02/22/2012 04:34:28 AM
Its nice bright and colourful.7.
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 02/21/2012 06:07:52 PM
Finally a different POV on a flower!! I love it 10
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 02/21/2012 06:05:06 AM
lime green & crimson (on my monitor) & itchy detail & this is not comfortable to look at for very long, which is an interesting effect
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 02/19/2012 05:27:43 PM
Great color and detail.
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 02/19/2012 02:32:43 PM
beautiful... love the detail
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 02/19/2012 08:39:46 AM
Beautiful. I'm not sure if I want to see a little more of the petals and a little less of the stem at bottom, or if I like it the way it is. This composition definitely works, though.
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 02/19/2012 07:13:24 AM
Really striking colors and composition. Quite flame-like, even with the green bits.
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 02/18/2012 12:19:05 PM
Super clarity!!! Love the fuzzzzzz
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 02/18/2012 06:39:30 AM
Lovely colours & detail
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 02/17/2012 12:59:13 PM
"Just" a flower but so much more. Incredible detail, love that you filled the frame, great lighting and colour.
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 02/16/2012 05:47:33 AM
Cool. Looks like perhaps there is a light from inside the flower as well to give a nice glow.
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 02/16/2012 04:58:39 AM
I like how the colors just burst up. I wish there was more of that, and less of the stem here. All the same, it's a good shot!
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 02/15/2012 07:45:27 PM
As I said, I did remember this off the top of my head, so it stuck in there after looking at it and it also struck me a bit when I saw it, but not enough to originally make me comment.
I like all the texture you've got going on, and the light on the leafy bits is really quite nice, as it sculpts them very well. I like how three dimensional the whole thing feels. I also like how the petals sorta blend together, they look much more ephemeral in comparison to the green parts. Your choice to go with a photo of a flower that is largely not flower is interesting, but I like it. It's nice to see flowers from ways we don't normally. It's a very nicely done floral shot, in my mind.
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 02/15/2012 02:53:30 AM
fantastic details and lighting.
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 02/13/2012 02:17:51 PM
Nice macro; love that it fills the frame. (voted earlier)
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 02/12/2012 01:08:26 PM
the textures are so well captured
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 02/12/2012 10:06:50 AM
A straight 10... Striking image.
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 02/12/2012 09:08:32 AM
I just love gerberas!!
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 02/11/2012 07:12:19 AM
Beautiful colors. I can see this 4 feet wide hanging in a print shop somewhere.
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 02/10/2012 01:57:16 PM
Nice colours, great focus on the little strands there on the green, a really great macro shot. The composition is good, although I wish a bit more of the petals were in view, purely because that red is gorgeous.
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 02/10/2012 07:49:39 AM
stunning, beautiful detail and colors, love this and have to make it a fav
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 02/09/2012 08:18:25 PM
This angle has become more acceptable of late, and this is why :)
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