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Iris Duo
Iris Duo
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Challenge: Double Take (Advanced Editing V)
Camera: Nikon D70s
Lens: Sigma 70-300mm f/4-5.6 APO DG Macro for Nikon
Location: Philadelphia, PA
Date: May 28, 2007
Aperture: f/ 5.3
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/2000 sec.
Galleries: Still Life, Floral
Date Uploaded: Jun 3, 2007

Around the corner from where Bev lives is Elaine's house. She has a corner property and a long, somewhat narrow garden running along the street side of the property to her garage. Her specialty is Irises. She loves them and has a dozen and half varieties as well as roses, clematis, peonies, poppies, zinnias, marigolds, bleeding hearts and others. But in May of each year, her irises are in full bloom and are the higlight of the garden.

Last Monday, Bev drove me to the garden and went home to relax and stay out of the heat. It was draining. I shot for about two hours and 350 frames, not counting deletes. I also shot with all 4 of my lenses, one after the other. Mainly with the 50MM macro but I switched to the 70-300 on macro to get some more interesting DOF. This was one of them.

Post: Convert from raw in PSElements 3.0 with a +0.33 exposure compensation. Layer adjustments for levels, brightness/contrast and hue/saturation. Cloned the tip of an expired bloom off the bottom left of center. Sharpen.Resize. Sharpen.

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Place: 328 out of 383
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Votes: 142
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06/08/2007 06:39:58 PM
The flowers are beautiful, but I especially like the complementary background. Excellent image.
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06/04/2007 11:19:39 PM
Don`t be afraid to bump up the saturation when the colors are "plain"
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06/04/2007 01:52:29 AM
Nice and sharp but lacking contrast and depth
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