Pyrotechnic Feathers in Chaos
by carisakD70

Comment by DefyTime:
Very interesting to look at...well done

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by carisakD70

Comment by dolphnz8:
What an adorable pose!!!! Great colorization and depth with this one!

Love the "Earl Grey" cat too! hehehe

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by carisakD70

Comment by ArpeggioAngel:
Love the soft tone of this photo. Great pose too smelling the flower. You did a great job of capturing the sparkle in her eyes!

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by carisakD70

Comment by FocusPoint:
Very nice photo :)

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by carisakD70

Comment by irishempress:
once again, GREAT eyes on this kid! i really like this pose better than the other i commented on. with her not looking directly into the camera, it seems very natural. i love this about this photo! what post processing did you use?

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by carisakD70

Comment by irishempress:
those eyes are just incredible!!! i love the tones of this sepia...they seem just right!

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by carisakD70

Comment by xianart:
hi carisa, thanks for the nice comment. what i did with the eyes in this one was:

select with magnetic lasso
feather 5 pixels
adjustment layer - slective colour
- adjust neutrals (is it, or is grey? the one with the little grey square)
- play with the cyan, magenta and yellow until you get the colour you want. this does only give one colour, so you don't get the variation of colour of a saturated area in a colour photograph, but it's a little more subtle than really bumping up the saturation.

single colour

RGB saturation

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by carisakD70

Comment by xianart:

Originally posted by carisakD70: Do I smell a lens baby? I really like this shot, the selective focus works for it IMHO

yup!

very nice use the same.

Message edited by author 2006-06-12 10:12:43.

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by carisakD70

Comment by eschelar:
I actually kinda like this crop... I just wish that the hand could have been somehow not centered... Can't think of how I would have cropped it differently though...

The focus is maybe a tiny bit off... I would have preferred it with the focus on the hand... The softness is just a tiny bit much.

Incidentally, this is one of my favorites from the series. Very soft and sweet.

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by carisakD70

Comment by jaxed:
Nice idea. It would be nice to see a wider crop to give a little more information to the veiwer. This is easier said than done, it is one of my biggest struggles when taking a picture ;)