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Wild Hydrangea
MaryO


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Challenge: Sepia II (Advanced Editing VII)
Collection: Flowers and Bugs
Camera: Nikon D700
Lens: Sigma 100-300mm f/4.0 EX IF HSM for Nikon
Location: Alexandria, VA
Date: Jun 26, 2011
Aperture: f/5,6
ISO: 800
Shutter: 1/1000
Galleries: Floral
Date Uploaded: Jun 26, 2011

 Very old-fashioned sort of flower, I think, growing in the woods in dappled light ... really like the light. And if you look very closely, there's a spider hiding on the leaf near the flower. A Daddy longlegs.

PP - cropped, tonemapped in qtpfsgui (pregamma 0.697, mantiuk method, contrast mapping 0.1, saturation factor 1.029, detail factor 1), lightened both layers and merged in multiply mode, cloned a little more texture on some hot petals, duotone, resized, sharpened with noise reduction, blurred background and one leaf more, added border.

Statistics
Place: 39 out of 171
Avg (all users): 6.0360
Avg (commenters): 7.8000
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Views since voting: 664
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Votes: 139
Comments: 8
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Nikon D750
Nikon AF-S Nikkor 17-35mm f/2.8D IF-ED
 07/04/2011 12:55:31 AM
Gorgeous lighting.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
Fujifilm FinePix S7000
 07/03/2011 11:22:04 PM
In general- I'm over the 'just a flower bit'. But this is not general. I love it! The lighting here is dramatic and perfectly done IMO & it's all very complimentary to the Sepia bit.
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Olympus OM-D E-M1 Mark III
Olympus 45mm f/1.8 M.Zuiko Digital
 07/03/2011 05:20:58 PM
Love the spotlight. Very pretty.
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Canon EOS-5DS R
Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 USM Macro
 07/02/2011 07:11:24 AM
Feel like I'm just there, nice
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Pentax K10D
Pentax DA 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 AF
 06/30/2011 10:27:27 AM
Excellent angle looks 3D on my screen...9
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Canon EOS-600D/T3i Rebel
Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 USM II
 06/28/2011 02:59:55 PM
Beautifully composed with fabulous light and tones. Love it.
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Canon EOS-7D
Sigma 17-70mm f/2.8-4.5 DC Macro for Canon
 06/27/2011 09:01:32 AM
Really beautiful. You don't see these in Texas, but I know they can be found along the west coast. The bokeh is lovely.
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Canon Canon 1d x Mark II
Sigma 85mm f/1.4 FG HSM Art
 06/27/2011 12:48:05 AM
So pretty in every way.
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