On a broccoli plant. The other day I noticed how the water was beading up on my broccolis when I watered them, so I got the (unoriginal, overdone) idea to shoot a water drop on a broccoli leaf. Only when I looked at the shots on the computer did I realize it was the texture of the leaves that makes the water bead up.
Thank goodness for advanced editing. It really let me do a lot to this shot:
RSE: RAW conversion (levels, noise, curves, color, etc)
PSP XI: (16-bit tiff)
Extracted water drop on separate layer
Independently adjusted color balance to make the drop stand out and add more green.
Cloned out a bunch of spider threads and secondary drops
Curves and saturation at many different times
Resize
Sharpening, including localized sharpening of merged image
Predict: 6.2 (simply because it is a pretty clean shot, but the texture to the leaf might confuse some people)
Taken with reversed Nikkor-H 50mm f/2.
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Exquisite!! This is a perfect picture. Focus is dead on, and the alignment is great.I love all of the intricateness of the leaf's grain. Excellent photo!!
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Nice textures, with the leaf texture mirrored in the water. I would frame the leaf fully and crop the dark areas on the left. The image seems off-center.
The texture of the leaf alone makes this an extremely interesting photograph, but the perfect placement of the droplet just totally tops this off. Great job!
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