One shot, a sunflower through a very dirty piece of glass.
Edited in PSCS4, adjusted curves and colours in small increments in LAB mode. Then back in RGB mode, selectively adjusted areas of dark/light painting in both a multiply and a screen layer, and also using portions of a layer I ran through the Photomatix plugin to clarify some areas of the photo. Final colour adjustment, resized, sharpened, added 1 px border, saved for web.
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Place: 107 out of 360 Avg (all users): 5.8750 Avg (commenters): 8.0000 Avg (participants): 5.8632 Avg (non-participants): 5.9200 Views since voting: 1296 Views during voting: 232 Votes: 120 Comments: 28 Favorites: 8 (view)
i'm surprised and not surprised that this didnt get a MUCH better score .. it really is the most wonderful work of art .. it deserved to be on the front page at least .. !
something extremely beautiful, different and out of the box .. wish i could create something half as amazing .. :)
Look at the commenter average! To me, this is a wildly successful DPC entry. And lovely having you as a neighbor in a free study! (Hang on to that piece of glass - it works quite nicely!)
I'm going through the entries, stopping at those images I feel have had the benefit of an unconventional eye and dwelling a little longer to try to see and appreciate what you saw. This is one of those images.
Positives: This is the first image to pop up for me in voting - excellent!! Love the colours here - especially the polaroid blue hues. I like how it feels like a scratched transparency. I can clearly see the flower petals but I'm delighted you've retained so much mystery in this image. I like how it offer low and high contrast at the same time - I'm not sure how you've pulled that off.
Critical stuff: Nothing at all.
Overall: I really hope others enjoy this as much as I do. I wonder if the parallel Nixter challenge will open people up a little to the less conventional images sometimes offered up?
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