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The Pollenator
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Challenge: Free Study 2009-08 (Advanced Editing VII)
Camera: Pentax K10D
Lens: Tamron AF 70-300mm f/4.0-5.6 LD for Pentax
Date: Aug 7, 2009
Aperture: f/5.6
ISO: 800
Shutter: 1/180
Galleries: Nature, Animals
Date Uploaded: Aug 28, 2009

 Open in ACR, duplicate layer, high pass filter in overlay mode, quick select bee , (levels, hue/saturation bump) usm and flatten. New dupe layer, reselect/inverse, partial desat yellow and green channels, clone out 2 specs of pollen on right-most leaf, flatten, usm, resize and save for web.

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Canon EOS-40D
Canon EF 70-300mm f/4.5-5.6 DO IS USM
 09/01/2009 09:44:16 PM
The desat I think could work but a couple of leaves at the back are half grey/half green and appear to be an oversight rather than intentional.
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