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Popping poppy
Popping poppy
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Challenge: In The Style Of: sherpet (Advanced Editing VII)
Camera: Canon EOS-500D Rebel T1i
Lens: Tamron AF 18-250mm F/3.5-6.3 Di II LD Aspherical (IF) for Canon
Location: Stoke-on-Trent
Date: Aug 17, 2011
Aperture: f/2.8
ISO: N/K
Shutter: 1/640
Galleries: Digital Art, Floral
Date Uploaded: Aug 23, 2011

Well I was spoilt for choice for inspiration in Sherpet's portfolio. After one failed idea I decided to have a play with something I haven't used before, negative inverts, not something I usually like but I did like the way it enhanced the outlines in some of sherpet's flower shots so I guess it's all about the way it's done. I took a photo of a delicate poppy, inverted it and then to put my own twist on it and make the colour combination a little more coherent I tweaked the original hue and saturation.

It was taken on an Ixus compact because my slr took a dunking :-((

[Aug. 25th, 2011 10:16:56 AM]

Shez - Thank you for your lovely comments!
h2 - I don't think the processing reduced image quality, it was taken with a 7MP compact on the macro setting as my SLR is sadly out of action. The original image looks a bit like this (slightly different crop) //www.flickr.com/photos/17563528@N00/6078603717/
Crazy Diamond - It's a field of flowers. Just a beautiful clump of right flowers right by a traffic light junction on my way to work. It's almost like some member of the public just went and scattered a load of seeds as they only appeared this year.

After voting on the other photos I wish I'd added a border now, didn't think of that!

[Aug 31]

Thanks for all the comments! I'm glad this pulled up on the points to sit above a 5.

Statistics
Place: 87 out of 120
Avg (all users): 5.5143
Avg (commenters): 6.7143
Avg (participants): 5.2687
Avg (non-participants): 5.7397
Views since voting: 374
Views during voting: 231
Votes: 140
Comments: 8
Favorites: 1 (view)


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AuthorThread
08/31/2011 08:22:14 PM
I had this one high up in placement in my favorites so I am very pleased it has been given the Posthumous award as well Yeahh well doe from shez
 Comments Made During the Challenge
08/30/2011 03:21:22 PM
far out. I totally dig this.

I'm hanging this in my fantasy sherpet gallery


  Photographer found comment helpful.
08/29/2011 11:22:14 PM
Startng with the first entry I looked at in this Sherpet Style challenge, I am amazed at the depth and detail of this rich Poppy Flower......
The COLOR and clarity is awesome. THE DOF background is so soft almost like SILK
THANK YOU so much for this wonderful photo in this challenge....

AWESOME

THANK YOU for entering this beautiful FLORAL image
from shez with love xox
  Photographer found comment helpful.
08/29/2011 09:24:41 PM
Love this, works so well.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
08/29/2011 04:50:33 PM
Very Artistic!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
08/26/2011 11:09:34 PM
Fun background and cheerful colors. The noise is a bit too noticeable and detail in the poppy is a bit lacking.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
08/24/2011 06:06:05 AM
Nice color. What is the background?
  Photographer found comment helpful.
08/24/2011 03:28:59 AM
colors and subject are sherpet's style, but the processing reduced image quality very much
  Photographer found comment helpful.


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