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silent night
silent night
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Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Camera: Nikon D80
Lens: Sigma 105mm f/2.8 EX DG Macro for Nikon
Location: Polvadera, NM
Date: Dec 24, 2008
Aperture: f/2.8
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/4000
Galleries: Black and White, Floral
Date Uploaded: Dec 24, 2008

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Comments: 15
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 Lots of weeds in the yard right now, this is just one of them. This is not at all my style, thought I'd try something different. I liked this so much that I took a bunch more weed shots and tried the same processing on all of them to try to create some kind of cohesive set, but none of them turned out so well.

Processing:
Crop
Color Efex Pro darken/lighten center
Color Efex Pro Duplex
Color Efex Pro Film Effects, Kodak 100UC
Color Efex Pro Color Stylizer, Cool Silver 3
Soft light layers to paint in white to dodge (like on tufts) and paint in black to burn (background shiny bits)
Create new layer of all below with ctrl+alt+shift+e, then Ortonize it (unsharp mask pretty strongly, create duplicate set to screen and merge, copy that merged layer and set to mulitply then gaussian blur around 15, mask out bits and adjust opacity to taste)
Merge the Ortonized layers then adjust opacity so un-ortonized layer shows through
Add border

Original:

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Canon EOS-5D Mark II
Canon EF 24-105mm f/4.0 L IS
 01/02/2012 08:55:01 PM
Absolutely stunning!
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Canon EOS-5D Mark II
Canon EF 85mm f/1.8 USM
 01/07/2009 04:47:54 PM
Wonderful.
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Canon EOS-7D
Canon EF-S 17-55mm f/2.8 IS USM
 12/30/2008 06:42:46 AM
great pp work
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 12/28/2008 09:24:45 PM
So soft and delicte. Lovely tones.
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Nikon D300
Nikon AF-S DX NIKKOR 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6G ED VR II
 12/26/2008 02:38:55 PM
Wow...your PP is perfect! I really like that you left the weed in the foreground lighter than the rest.
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Sony DSLR-A200
Sony 75-300mm f/4.5-5.6
 12/26/2008 10:20:05 AM
Both versions are very beautiful!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Nikon Z8
Nikon NIKKOR Z 28-400mm f/4-8
 12/26/2008 08:43:55 AM
Amazing how much beauty there is in weeds.
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Canon EOS-1D Mark III
Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 L Macro IS USM
 12/26/2008 06:26:14 AM
This is gorgeous Colleen. I just love Color Efex. Fantastic processing.
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Olympus OM-D E-M1 Mark III
OM System 90mm f/3.5 Macro IS PRO M.Zuiko Digital ED
 12/26/2008 04:01:10 AM
MAN .. THIS IS STUNNING .!!!!!!. such a beautiful image colleen .... love your photograph, love your processing and that large border is perfect .. :)
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Olympus OM-D E-M1 Mark III
Canon EF 24-105mm f/4.0 L IS
 12/26/2008 01:54:10 AM
This is rich and wonderful. Reminds me of Judy's work. Between the two of you, I may be convinced to buy more software... Really well done!
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Canon EOS-5D Mark II
Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 L Macro IS USM
 12/25/2008 09:52:26 PM
Fabulous, really, really, lovely.
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Canon EOS-7D
Sigma 17-70mm f/2.8-4.5 DC Macro for Canon
 12/25/2008 07:36:36 PM
Unusual border - and I LOVE IT. Really mood evoking. Don't you adore that lighten darken thing? Have you tried the reflector filters? that is the best bunch of software EVER.

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Canon EOS-5D Mark II
Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8 L USM
 12/25/2008 05:05:11 PM
beautiful photo. border is kinda distracting though
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Canon EOS-400D Rebel XTi
Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6
 12/24/2008 09:55:43 PM
Pretty & soft. Almost looks like the flower is made of little feathers!
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Sony Alpha a6000
Canon EF 24-105mm f/4.0 L IS
 12/24/2008 06:05:43 PM
Perfect title and lovely , deep image- draws me in - Peace to you Colleen- Pat
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