Took the shot after building it on the 24th. The plant is still alive and putting out new roots (29th). Going to see if it keeps going.
Back from a 2 month break. Hoping for a 6+ to keep my goal average on track.
Steps:
Crop
Levels
Hue/Sat
Some cloning
USM
NI
Warming filter
Cooling filter
A luminosity layer to lighten plant
Resize
USM
Border
SFW
Post:
Thanks for the great result. Scored better than I expected.
I wanted to clean up the image more, get rid of some more of the specks, but cloning made it look too fake and I wanted to be careful with the amount of touch up I did.
Planned to reshoot it on the Sunday with a cleaner bulb, but the 24 hour challenge popped up instead and I spent my time working on that.
Oh the plant ain't doing so well anymore.
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Very nice image - but how did you............?
1 get the plant in the light bulb
2 have the bulb at that angle and not fall over
I am interested, though we don't see the end of the cap, that gives me a clue, but still would like to know.
Plant was just pushed through neck of bulb and planted with a chopstick.
I used a piece of match on a thread to hold it at that angle. Placed the match in the neck and where you see the metal curve at the end allowed it to be wedged in.
Clever image though I've seen same/similar a few times.
With the advanced editing allowed here, the small specks all over teh glass should have been cleaned up - would score far higher in my opinion.
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