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Garden Drops
Garden Drops
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Challenge: Rain (Advanced Editing IV)
Camera: Fujifilm FinePix S7000
Location: Philadelphia, PA
Date: Aug 14, 2005
Aperture: f/ 8.0
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/16 sec.
Galleries: Macro, Floral
Date Uploaded: Aug 14, 2005

 Well....it rain for about an hour on Monday. While I was at work. I ran out and took a slew of shots. I using a new Monopod for the first or second time and well...ahem...not very good results. I was trying for the some Henri Cartier-Bresson jumping the puddle in the rain shot but...no dice. Interesting with movement of people and cars and even some discernible rain but overall...bleh. No worry, I thought, scattered thunderstorms about every day. Nothing.

Had to go the the studio and assimilate. Bought a garden bouquet on Saturday. Sprayed some water and later used an eye dropper on a pink spirder aster. Did about 50 shots with the bouquet in different positions and with different sized drops. I decided on this one. It is heavily cropped...may 2/3 of the original size or more. But I like the DOF colors the best and the randomness of the drops. It seems more like rain to me than the later ones with the big drops and reflections cause they looked placed. Enjoy....Of course, you know, it is problably going to $)%*( rain all day tomorrow! LOL! C'est la vie!

Post: Crop. Layer adjustments for levels, brightness/contrast, hue/saturation. USM. Cropped some more. Resize. USM.

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Place: 48 out of 228
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
08/20/2005 09:12:41 AM
Wow - very glad I came back to this the 3rd time. I missed a lot on the first two passes. Great reflections in the water droplets! Good focus, DOF, & color too. Very nice job. Bumping up again.
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 08/20/2005 01:33:58 AM
Excellent color. great macro, bumping up
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 08/19/2005 09:34:02 PM
Beautiful pic....love the colors....magnificent!!!!
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 08/19/2005 08:15:33 PM
Great macro. i think this looks like an indoor shot due to the lighting and there's nothing wrong with that. My image is also an indoor shot. Love the reflections on the drops. 6
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 08/19/2005 08:10:57 AM
Another wet plant/flower shot. The focus on the droplets is wonderful. I love the oof background colours, they are very complimentary to the sharp subject colours. Great job!
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 08/18/2005 05:54:08 PM
Very very good I was planning for something similar but vent in a another direction 9
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 08/18/2005 04:35:05 AM
Beautiful colors and nice reflection in the water drops, but i think the picture could use a little more contrast.
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 08/18/2005 02:36:00 AM
Unique colors, very nice
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 08/17/2005 11:20:01 PM
Fantastic!! Sharp, clear and great background. Wonderful color in the drops. 10
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 08/17/2005 09:45:56 PM
A great macro shot & the reflection in the drops is amazing! I wish the background wasn't so strong but it is repeated through the drops & seems to work well
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 08/16/2005 11:43:00 PM
The colors are excellent. I really like your image and hope you do well. Good luck!
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 08/16/2005 10:32:27 PM
Now, these droplets rock!
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 08/16/2005 07:14:56 PM
This is so cool. I've always wanted to try one of these shots. I hope you share your set up. The purple and orange color palette is nice.
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 08/15/2005 02:05:52 PM
This is a really cool picture. Good Luck!
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 08/15/2005 10:19:05 AM
lovely colors
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 08/15/2005 09:07:56 AM
amazing colors, i really like it
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 08/15/2005 08:46:26 AM
Wonderful colors and nice close-up!
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 08/15/2005 06:56:41 AM
nicely back light
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 08/15/2005 04:30:07 AM
nice dof and i like the reflections in the individual drops. very lively. 7
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 08/15/2005 01:37:06 AM
Nice macro. What psychadelic colors. WOW, man!!!
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