This is one of many plant types at the Buffalo & Erie County Botanical Gardens in Lackawanna, NY.
Taken with my Canon EF 28-135mm IS zoom lens. I obviously used selective desaturation to draw attention to the central portion of the plant. Selective coloring, a little cloning of some distracting spots on the leaves; curves, levels, and usm.
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EXIF data:
File: CRW_9336.CRW
File size: 5,433KB
Image Serial Number: 193-9336
Camera Model: Canon EOS 10D
Camera serial number: 0320205230
Firmware: Firmware Version 2.0.0
Date/Time: 2004:08:15 15:00:08
Shutter speed: 1/15 sec
Aperture: 5.6
Exposure mode: Av
Exposure compensation: +1/2
Flash: Off
Metering mode: Evaluative
Drive mode: Single frame shooting
ISO: 100
Lens: 28.0 to 135.0 mm
Focal length: 47.0mm
Subject distance: 0.71 m
AF mode: One-shot AF
Image size: 3072 x 2048
Image quality: Raw
White balance: Daylight
Color space: sRGB
Saturation: Normal
Sharpness: Normal
Contrast: Normal
Tone: Normal
Custom Functions:
CFn 2: Shutter release w/o CF card: Not possible
CFn 4: Shutter release: AE lock; AE button: AF
Statistics
Place: 14 out of 215 Avg (all users): 6.3777 Avg (commenters): 8.8571 Avg (participants): 6.2583 Avg (non-participants): 6.5882 Views since voting: 1571 Views during voting: 299 Votes: 188 Comments: 12 Favorites: 3 (view)
Congratulations on your 14th placing. Hey, your quality of entries are always good. In this one you made an ideal use of desat, a hard feat to pull off.
nice! interesting method of drawing focus both with the mag class and the saturation difference. very clever, and nicely composed, strong color. good work.
There are a couple submitted that have used the magnifying glass idea but you went beyond the everyday idea and raised the bar. Great job on this. The depth of field seems perfect and the lighting beautiful. Great detail and colors too. Hope this gets high ratings.
I like the idea, but think it could be stronger if used more subtly. The comoposition is also very centered, which added to the colour choices makes this very static.
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