A Christmas Tree decoration. This is really me just playing with artificial lighting, something that I struggle with a lot. The actual result was nowhere near as "good" as this but Photoshop came to my rescue! I expect this to be a mid/low 5 kind of shot.
Editing Steps: I can't exactly remember and I deleted the TIF file in a disk clean-up session but something along the lines of...
Convert from RAW
Tone mapping
Seletive Curves on background and decoration
Dodge/Burn on decoration
Rotate
Crop
USM
Save for web
Statistics
Place: 368 out of 488 Avg (all users): 5.1353 Avg (commenters): 3.5000 Avg (participants): 5.0661 Avg (non-participants): 5.3061 Views since voting: 760 Views during voting: 232 Votes: 170 Comments: 2 Favorites: 0
Add photograph to your favorites
Add photographer to your favorites
Photographer found comment helpful.
