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Challenge: Fine Arts: Exhibit II (Advanced Editing VII*)
Collection: 2011 Challenges
Camera: Canon Power Shot SX10 IS
Location: Ballarat, Vic. Australia
Date: Mar 26, 2011
Aperture: 2.8
ISO: 125
Shutter: 1/40
Galleries: Floral, Blur
Date Uploaded: Apr 7, 2011

 Well I'm sure I'm going to get slammed for this. Some people hate blur, some hate flowers, some hate colour aberrations and some will think I've done something illegal. Doesn't matter.
The initial photo was shot through a plastic memory card pack with vaseline on it.
Open PSCS3
Crop heavily
Topaz Denoise 5 moderate
Topaz Adjust - Detail simple pop
Blur tool
Copy
Back to cropped original
Topaz simplify watercolour
Past copied
Blend mode darken which all but eliminated any watercolour
Crop again
Blur tool, Burn tool, Border
Image size
SFW.

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Place: 48 out of 167
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Views during voting: 332
Votes: 164
Comments: 14
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Sony DSLR-A100
Sony DT 18-70mm f/3.5-5.6 Aspherical ED
 04/23/2011 03:12:04 AM
lovely image!
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Nikon D90
Nikon AF-S Zoom-Nikkor 24-120mm f/3.5-5.6G IF-ED VR
 04/15/2011 11:37:18 AM
I am so surprised this didn't do better... I hate blur and flowers but couldn't take my eyes off of this! It was very pleasant to view.. I 9nd it, and that is a biggie for me for flowers LOL.. In my humble opinion GREAT JOB
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
Sigma DP1x
04/12/2011 04:56:46 PM
Impressionistic and painterly. Nice work.
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Canon EOS-350D Rebel XT
Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 USM
 04/11/2011 10:05:29 AM
This looks like one of the old masters paintings. Really like the soft focus.
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Nikon D90
Nikon AF-S Zoom-Nikkor 24-120mm f/3.5-5.6G IF-ED VR
 04/11/2011 01:07:42 AM
OH WOW, seriously good, and sooo meets challenge! Excellent!
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Nikon D7200
Nikon AF-S DX Nikkor 35mm f/1.8G
 04/10/2011 02:37:50 PM
Beautiful image.
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Nikon D750
Nikon AF-S Nikkor 17-35mm f/2.8D IF-ED
 04/10/2011 02:10:32 PM
Beautiful.
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Canon EOS-600D/T3i Rebel
Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 USM II
 04/09/2011 05:04:46 PM
This is lovely. I hate the frame - it's much to heavy for the gorgeous airiness of the flowers and blur.
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Canon Canon 1d x Mark II
Sigma 85mm f/1.4 FG HSM Art
 04/09/2011 07:06:19 AM
Painternley, lovely.
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Canon EOS-5D Mark IV
Canon EF 200mm f/2.8 USM
 04/08/2011 11:19:53 PM
This is beautiful! My highest rated fine art photo so far. I can definitely see this on the wall of a fine art gallery.
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Nikon D3s
 04/08/2011 07:33:56 PM
Looks painterly, good job.
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Canon EOS-350D Rebel XT
Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6
 04/08/2011 11:15:47 AM
Normally I prefer crisp, highly-focused images, but this is really nice. Reminds me of spring after a warm rain. :)
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 04/08/2011 09:09:16 AM
A bit like Monet.
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OM System OM-1
Olympus 12-100mm f/4.0 M.Zuiko ED IS PRO
 04/08/2011 02:30:33 AM
Wonderful Monet! :)
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