I thank my wife for cutting these out. :) Trying to stand them up in the grass with a slight breeze was interesting.
This was my third attempt. First tried a white background in a light tent, then black - wasn't 100% satisfied with either. Hope this natural environment works. :D
RSE 2006
- convert to TIFF
PSP X
- histogram (9,1,215)
- brightness/contrast (0,11)
- duplicate bg layer
- HMS (-100,50,35)
- merge all
- crop
- duplicate bg layer
- xero plug-in: Soft Vignette (ellipse, foreground color black, solid, 0,84,84,255)
- merge all
- clone tall piece of grass on left, spot on right
- resize
- usm (.35,100,10) +luminance
- digital noise reduction (35,35,35,40,2)
- save as jpg
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This is a well composed shot, and you clearly understand the effectiveness of the aperture you selected. Great background choice, with a nice level of saturation in the grass. The only reason I can think of that this didn't score higher is that it's not necessarily as exciting (i.e. doesn't have the "wow" factor) of some of the other submissions.
Nice setup. The grass is not quite green enough, but maybe you live in Australia, and all the grass here is dead anyway. I like the crispness of this shot, as well as the shallow DOF.
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