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Home is Where the Garden Is
Home is Where the Garden Is
MaryO


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Challenge: Home Sweet Home II (Advanced Editing VII)
Collection: Flowers and Bugs
Camera: Nikon D700
Lens: Sigma 100-300mm f/4.0 EX IF HSM for Nikon
Location: Springfield, VA
Date: Aug 12, 2011
Aperture: f/4
ISO: 400
Shutter: 1/2000
Galleries: Black and White, Floral
Date Uploaded: Aug 18, 2011

 One of my very favorite things ... my gardens, and the butterflies and other bugs that come to visit in summertime. One of the little kids in the neighborhood has nicknamed my house The Butterfly House :-)

So B&W would seem an odd choice, but I liked it better than the color version. Some of the flowers are looking a little brownish just now. This way people can imagine pretty summer colors.

I just noticed it looks like a very large ghost is peering around the corner of the house ... that's interesting =:-o

PP - cropped, levels, duotone, tonemapped in qtpfsgui (pregamma 0.697, mantiuk method, contrast mapping 0.1, saturation factor 1.029, detail factor 1), erased background and lightened and merged with original, dodged/burnt butterfly, resized, sharpened, blurred background more, added border.

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Canon EOS-6D
Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 L Macro IS USM
 08/25/2011 04:24:09 PM
Almost missed the butterfly...
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Pentax K100D
Pentax SMC DA 18-55mm f3.5-5.6 AL WR
 08/19/2011 07:36:12 PM
Nice Butterfly bush with Tiger Swallowtail. It might have been neat to have at least some of the flowers/butterfly in color to stand out against all of those leaves.
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Canon EOS-80D
Canon EF 17-40mm f/4.0 L USM
 08/19/2011 01:02:38 PM
Not the obvious choice to think low contrast desat- but I like the softness it adds, and it makes the blurred background special.
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