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Challenge: Square Crop II (Advanced Editing VII)
Collection: 2011 Challenges
Camera: Canon Power Shot SX10 IS
Location: Ballarat Botanical Gardens, Vic. Australia
Date: May 1, 2011
Aperture: 4.5
ISO: 80
Shutter: 1/25
Galleries: Floral
Date Uploaded: May 1, 2011

 Ballarat has an annual Begonia Festival in March and now the display of begonias is coming to an end but there are still some on show.
The day was dull and these are hot house blooms and in spite of some lighting the light was fairly low. Some of the shots I took were not really sharp enough, but others were reasonable.

Open PSCS3
Crop
Canvas size crop again to make a square
Topaz Adjust - portrait smooth
Copy
Back to original
Paste
Elliptical marquee tool, 100 pixel feather
Select centre (fairly large selection)
Erase with maximum size eraser, 50% opacity
Erase again with smaller brush over smaller area of centre
Select background layer
Select centre with elliptical marquee
Topaz Detail
Deselect
Flatten
onOne clarity
Flatten
Canvas size border
Image size
sfw.

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Sony Alpha a55
Sony DT 50mm f/1.8 SAM
 05/09/2011 10:03:30 AM
Thanks for the info included in comments, I read it with interest. Also the camera settings. A flower show usually has surprisingly awful lighting & I think it goes un-noticed because our sight can compensate so well for it. Something only a photog would know! This one stood out for me during voting for the combination of low light and color clarity, so I was doubly glad you included PP comments. The square crop works well w/this. I guess it depends on the computer's power but I have learned to crop last. If the image is PP & saved before cropping then I have something to work with if I need a different crop. I have tried to duplicate my PP on the same image so I can crop differently, but I have never been able to do it. Which is wierd, but I have read the same comment from others. Anyway, good job!
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
Canon EOS-7D
 05/04/2011 08:53:19 AM
Lovely. Looks great with the square crop.
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 05/02/2011 09:58:38 AM
Very pretty, love the subtle colours.
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