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Challenge: Granular II (Basic Editing)
Collection: Portfolio
Camera: Canon PowerShot S3 IS
Location: Oakland, California, USA
Date: Sep 2, 2011
Aperture: 3.51
ISO: 80
Shutter: 1/15
Galleries: Nature, Floral
Date Uploaded: Sep 2, 2011

 I dried these fern fronds on some red plum leaves, and kept them around to take pictures "someday" ...

-Handheld, manual mode
-FL 36mm (35mm EQ) in SuperMacro mode
-RGB Curve
-Blue/Yellow Curve
-Crop to square
-Resize
-USM at 88%/0.8 dia/TH = 5 (applied three times)
-Enlarge canvas to make black border
-SaveAs JPEG at quality 7/10 = 240KB

Statistics
Place: 70 out of 128
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Votes: 169
Comments: 2
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Canon EOS-5D
Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8 L USM
 09/13/2011 02:21:59 PM
Great find, the colors are really nice
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Nikon D300
Nikon MF 24mm f/2.8 AIS
 09/10/2011 07:26:36 AM
Very busy, would like to see more emphasis on the spores and throw the rest more out of focus. The image appears to be re-sized incorrectly, there is some tell tale blurriness.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
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