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Challenge: Free Study 2012-04 (Advanced Editing VII)
Camera: Nikon D300
Lens: Tokina AF 100mm f/2.8 Macro AT-X M100 Pro D for Nikon
Location: Glendale, California, USA
Date: Apr 28, 2012
Aperture: 5.6
ISO: 200
Shutter: Various
Date Uploaded: Apr 30, 2012

 The first poppy to bloom in our garden, just begging to be the subject of my new macro lens. Many, many more to come, I certain. I'm not expecting much for scores on this.

Three exposure HDR with the aperture static in each. I'll need to play around more to figure out the sweet spot for focal length and depth of field. Combined and tone mapped in Photomatix, resized and USM in PS.

Statistics
Place: 266 out of 275
Avg (all users): 4.6341
Avg (commenters): 7.0000
Avg (participants): 4.6737
Avg (non-participants): 4.5000
Views since voting: 365
Views during voting: 190
Votes: 123
Comments: 3
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AuthorThread
 10/10/2012 11:20:45 AM
Beautiful!
 Comments Made During the Challenge
05/07/2012 11:06:00 AM
All you need here is some leaded borders to turn this into a very nice stained glass window. The rich, hot color is perfect for a summertime poppy. The thing that keeps me looking at this is not the luscious color or brilliant light, but the blurry smeary watercolor painterly lack of descriptive detail everywhere except the center of the flower. Fascinating combination of details, from the hot yellow lightening of light along the FG edge of that petal, to the watery green BG, to the smudged shadows, to the sharp detail of light on the flower center. This might be the most I've ever written in a comment, trying to explain my reaction to a comp. It's almost a shame to write words. Well done.
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 05/05/2012 10:21:07 PM
No central focus
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