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Hopper Vortex
Hopper Vortex
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Challenge: Free Study 2007-07 (Advanced Editing V*)
Camera: Nikon D100
Location: Davison, MI
Date: Jul 27, 2007
Aperture: f5.6
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/320
Galleries: Nature, Macro
Date Uploaded: Jul 31, 2007

 So, I was going to shoot a wedding for my friend down by Flint. Got to his place early, and on the way in the house stopped outside to finish my smoke. Saw this guy sitting there on the flower, had the camera in my hand anyways, and couldn't resist taking a couple quick shots before I went inside. I forgot all about it until just tonight I was going through my July stuff, looking for potential free study shots. I saw this one, opened it up and began to play around with the crop, and started really digging it. So this is what's going in :-)
In ps- cropped, cloned out a few hot pixels, neat image, levels, curves, curves, hue/sat, high pass, screen and linear burn with opacity dropped, resized, smart sharpen, usm, curves, border, sfw
thanks for checkin' out my pic :-)

Statistics
Place: 13 out of 651
Avg (all users): 6.8819
Avg (commenters): 8.7692
Avg (participants): 6.8333
Avg (non-participants): 7.1250
Views since voting: 2146
Views during voting: 246
Votes: 144
Comments: 18
Favorites: 5 (view)

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Pentax K10D
Sigma 28-80mm f/3.5-5.6 Aspherical HF for Pentax
 09/15/2007 08:52:47 AM
The complementary colours really, er, compliment each other very well. Great shot.
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Canon EOS R5
Canon RF 100-500mm f/4.5-7.1 L IS USM
 09/15/2007 08:24:41 AM
Awesome shot. Love it.
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Nikon D7200
Nikon AF-S DX Nikkor 35mm f/1.8G
 09/08/2007 11:28:29 PM
Holy crap Gene, great shot.
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Canon EOS-300D Rebel
Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II
 08/13/2007 06:05:02 PM
Way to go dude! Awesome shot. Deserves a top 15 place.
TC
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Canon EOS-5D Mark IV
Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8 L USM
 08/08/2007 12:46:36 AM
Dang, "just happened upon it." Awesome. Congrats on 13th!
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
Canon EOS-40D
Canon EF 70-300mm f/4.5-5.6 DO IS USM
 08/07/2007 07:14:11 PM
What a sweet image. The sharpness on the hopper is dead right. The stamen of the flower and the rest of the colours are a great contrast.
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Canon EOS-20D
Tamron AF 18-200mm f/3.5-6.3 XR Di II for Canon
 08/07/2007 10:42:08 AM
Very cool macro...he seems to have crawled out just far enough to see what you're doing. The juxtapositions of colors and subjects really make this interesting. Great job!
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Canon EOS-5D
Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II
 08/07/2007 03:14:52 AM
Wow! Fantastic macro! Great captured!
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Nikon D700
Nikon AF-S Zoom-Nikkor 28-70mm f/2.8D IF-ED
 08/07/2007 12:53:42 AM
Not much to say other than WOW!
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Canon R50
Canon EF-S 15-85mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM
08/04/2007 09:06:12 PM
Why did I only give this an 8? I should have given it a 10. So I will.

The color and sharpness are outstanding.
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Nikon Z8
Nikon NIKKOR Z 28-400mm f/4-8
 08/04/2007 06:34:47 PM
The red flower sets off the grasshopper perfectly; very nice DOF and detail.
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Nikon D7100
Nikon AF-S DX Zoom Nikkor 17-55mm f/2.8G IF-ED
 08/04/2007 01:25:20 PM
very nice contrasting colors.
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Canon EOS-7D
Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8 L USM
 08/03/2007 12:19:27 PM
This is a great macro! The vibrant colors just jump off the screen.
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Panasonic Lumix DMC-GH2
Panasonic Lumix G VARIO 14-45mm F3.5-5.6 ASPH Mega O.I.S lens
 08/02/2007 11:02:06 PM
Love those complementary colors! the grass hopper pops out of the image. The composition is great too.
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Olympus OM-D E-M1 Mark II
Olympus 60mm f/2.8 Macro M.Zuiko Digital ED
 08/02/2007 03:04:37 PM
What a great combination of color and subject. Don't know if you got lucky or staged this - regardless it's a shot worth keeping! Best of luck to you in the challenge.
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Nikon D810
Nikon AF-S Nikkor 24-120mm f/4G ED VR
 08/02/2007 06:01:42 AM
Beautiful !! fantastic colors, love the composition
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Canon EOS-5D Mark III
Canon EF 16-35mm f/2.8 L USM II
 08/02/2007 01:41:29 AM
nice shot! Good DOF! 9
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Canon EOS-5D
Canon EF 85mm f/1.8 USM
 08/01/2007 11:55:45 AM
9- great colors, and nailed the focus, good job
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