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Challenge: Red III (Basic Editing)
Camera: Canon EOS-40D
Lens: Sigma 50-150mm f/2.8 EX APO DG HSM for Canon
Location: my living room
Date: Nov 8, 2008
Aperture: f/10
ISO: 320
Shutter: 3.2s
Galleries: Still Life, Macro
Date Uploaded: Nov 8, 2008

 Unfortunately, this is my first decent entry in a while... on the other hand I've been expanding my photography business so I guess the lack of time on here is a decent indicator of doing well there. I was inspired by the recent lone leaf in the free study and wanted to do something will all the fall leaves. Pretty simple shot, just a wet dead leaf(which I accidentally burned a little while I was trying to dry it out on our lamp...oops!) I set the leaf on our piano bench, sprayed it with a spray bottle, at shot it using my new 40D with a Sigma 50-150mm with a 36mm extension tube. The live view on the 40D was really helpful for this type of macro stuff. Hope it does well, I'm really hoping to get back into the 6.0+ range with this one and I feel pretty good about it. I think some people might fault me for not having a "red" enough leaf but to me the image still says "red." Not too much post processing... shot in jpeg, levels, hue/saturation, USM, sharpened, resize, save for web. Thanks!

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Canon EOS-400D Rebel XTi
Canon EF 17-40mm f/4.0 L USM
 11/15/2008 01:08:01 PM
Nice light!

A bit of more DOF, would perhaps be even better!
Nikon D7000
Nikon AF-S DX 18-105 f/3.5-5.6 ED VR
 11/13/2008 06:09:35 PM
Lovely leaf colour stands out so well against the dark ground.
Canon EOS-400D Rebel XTi
Canon EF 28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM
 11/13/2008 12:06:24 AM
Meets Challenge 2
Technicalities 2
Interestingness 1
Out of the Box
Personal Bias 1
Total = 6
Canon EOS-300D Rebel
Tamron SP AF 24-135mm f/3.5-5.6 AD Aspherical IF for Canon
 11/12/2008 04:24:29 PM
Lotsa potential here. The entire leaf really needs to be sharp. IMHO :) 7
Apple iPhone 6
Sony E 16-50mm f/3.5-5.6 PZ OSS
 11/12/2008 11:46:24 AM
Nice colors, nice textures, nice dof, but plain aside from that. Just nice.
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