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Challenge: Image Grain III (Advanced Editing VII)
Collection: Flowers and Bugs
Camera: Nikon D200
Lens: Nikon AF Nikkor 50mm f/1.4D
Location: Springfield, VA
Date: Jun 24, 2009
Aperture: f/10
ISO: 400
Shutter: 1/100
Galleries: Floral
Date Uploaded: Jun 24, 2009

 I don't generally like noise in an image, so this was tough for me. Decided I wanted something textured (maybe old) and lo and behold, my windowsills need painting ;-) Used one on the front of the house, where the bricks are, for more texture. I wanted the flower for contrast; the dried petal fell off as I was placing the flower and I really liked the emotion of the full bloom looking a little depressed next to the petal. My imagination running wild again.

PP - converted from RAW, cropped, levels, white balance, duotone with 30% original color preserved, increased saturation on dried petal, sharpened, resized, sharpened again, added more noise, added border.

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Canon EOS-5D Mark III
Canon EF 24-105mm f/4.0 L IS
 07/04/2009 04:44:24 PM
Challenge Relevance:7 Impact/Emotion/Mood:6 Technicals:6 Processing:5.5 Creativity:6
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Sony Alpha a7 II
Sony FE 28-70mm f/3.5-5.6 OSS
 07/02/2009 01:36:23 PM
Love the purple and the brown. Nice desat treatment. Great dof, though the flower could be just a little lighter to pull it even more from the background.
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Nikon D850
Nikon AF-S Nikkor 28-300mm f3.5-5.6G ED VR
 07/01/2009 01:56:38 PM
Nicely done.....the grain helps the mood.....7
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