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Prairie Grasses

Prairie Grasses

Balko

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Challenge: Foreground Bokeh (Basic Editing) Camera: Canon EOS-40D Lens: Sigma 18-200mm f/3.5-6.3 DC OS for Canon Location: Riversude Park, Wichita KS Date: Nov 7, 2007 Aperture: 5 ISO: 250 Shutter: 1/2000 Galleries: Nature, Blur Date Uploaded: Nov 9, 2007 Add photograph to your favorites Add photographer to your favorites	On an excursion to Riverside Park, I found these tall grasses blowing (it was a very windy day). I tried to focus on the hinter grasses hoping to get the front bokeh effect. To an extent I did and since I am making myself enter as many challenges as I can, here it is. cropped, resized, curves, curves, USM

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Place: 17 out of 170
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Views since voting: 1461
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Votes: 182
Comments: 15
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Canon EOS-350D Rebel XT

Canon EF 28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM

11/21/2007 09:36:00 AM

What a beautiful image, and a great finish! I love the subtle foreground bokeh you captured, and the lines are great!

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Nikon NIKKOR Z 24-120 f/4 S

11/21/2007 07:07:50 AM

Ingrid - Nice finish in this challenge - a beautiful image, well composed, with wonderful textures and lines

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Canon EOS-400D Rebel XTi

Canon EF 28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM

11/21/2007 12:07:46 AM

Thanks voters! I really did not expect to do this well since several of my previous entries were ... well, not as good!

I literally got on the ground for this one and took several shots and this one seemed the best to enter because the bokeh mirrored the grasses bending in the wind.

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Pentax DA 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 AF

11/20/2007 11:09:22 PM

Great DOF! Superb Image! Excellent Affect! Great Job! :)

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Olympus OM-D E-M5 Mark III

Olympus 12-100mm f/4.0 M.Zuiko ED IS PRO

11/20/2007 08:14:26 PM

Like the golden color. perhaps a touch too repetitive in pattern.

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Sigma 70-200 /2.8 APO EX DG Macro HSM II

11/20/2007 09:33:33 AM

nice movement

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Canon EOS-400D Rebel XTi

Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6

11/19/2007 01:17:33 PM

Very nice. The golden colors are great.

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Canon EOS-350D Rebel XT

Canon EF 28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM

11/18/2007 10:06:40 PM

I like the DOF in this one.....

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Nikon AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor 18-70mm f/3.5-4.5G IF-ED

11/18/2007 03:40:52 PM

Nice! I feel like I'm laying on the ground looking at them!

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Nikon AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor 18-70mm f/3.5-4.5G IF-ED

11/17/2007 01:00:02 PM

The bokeh is perfect for this shot...one of my favorites of the challenge

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Olympus OM-D E-M1 Mark III

Olympus 12-40mm f/2.8 Pro

11/17/2007 03:28:11 AM

Meets the challenge as I understand it and a lovely sharp image. Pity there are two of these (don't you just hate that).

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Canon EF 70-200mm f/4.0 L USM

11/15/2007 05:11:14 PM

I like how the focused ones are visible through the ones that aren't. Nice work.

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Canon EOS-400D Rebel XTi

Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6

11/15/2007 03:31:37 PM

beautiful shot

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Canon EOS-5D Mark II

Canon EF 24-105mm f/4.0 L IS

11/14/2007 07:56:41 PM

Bokeh technique very good with sharp focus on the background subject.

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Nikon AF-S DX Nikkor 35mm f/1.8G

11/14/2007 02:22:05 PM

Nice job with this shot. I think you did a good job. I tried doing the same thing but it was too windy. Nice colors.

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