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Challenge: 100 Meters (Advanced Editing VII)
Collection: Portfolio
Camera: Canon PowerShot S3 IS
Lens: Canon 250D 58mm Close Up Lens
Location: Oakland, California, USA
Date: May 26, 2011
Aperture: 3.51
ISO: 80
Shutter: 1/159
Galleries: Abstract, Blur
Date Uploaded: May 27, 2011

 Extreme close-up of sunlit Bird of Paradise flower petals.

-Handheld, Manual mode
-Auto WB
-FL 436mm (35mm EQ) plus Close-up lens
-Rotate to 180° from nature
-Cloned a bit to touch up spots on one edge
-Resize
-USM at 8%/48 dia/TH = 0
-USM at 88%/0.8 dia/TH = 5 (applied twice)
-SaveAs JPEG at quality 10/10 = 247KB

This is a truly rare photo where I made no color/tone adjustments, other than the high-radius USM filtering -- too bad this wasn't another Minimal Editing challenge ... ;-)

Statistics
Place: 136 out of 141
Avg (all users): 4.7293
Avg (commenters): 0.0000
Avg (participants): 4.8657
Avg (non-participants): 4.5909
Views since voting: 2093
Views during voting: 233
Votes: 133
Comments: 3
Favorites: 0

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Fujifilm x100
 06/08/2011 05:10:22 PM
Gave it a 5 . I just do not find anything interesting in the shot.
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Canon EOS-400D Rebel XTi
Tamron AF 18-200mm f/3.5-6.3 XR Di II for Canon
 06/08/2011 04:33:29 PM
During the challenge, I gave you a 5.

For me, the negative space is what's interesting about this shot, but I don't think it's being portrayed in an interesting (graphic) way. I think I would have liked to have seen the crop to be rotated so that the stem was vertical, or angled more intentionally/dramatically. (30-45 degrees). As it sits now, it seems like attention was given to exposure and color, but the composition seems to be a bit less than considered.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
Canon EOS-40D
Canon EF 28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM
 05/30/2011 08:34:54 AM
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