Leaf from a Money Tree plant in a coworkers cubicle. She was also the owner of the (failed) Orchid I did for the Light on White challenge.
Shot with custom white balance to counteract red light used to illuminate the leaf from below
RAW adjust to fix custom white balance errors (damn camera)
Individual color desat in raw conversion to get b/w
crop to new 720 pixel
USM
8-bit conversion
save
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An underrated photo in a highly competitive challenge. This is the kind of thing I like to do, too, but you've done exceptionally well with the delicate lighting to bring out the finer veins in the leaf.