Image was a layer of ice in a wheelbarrow with leaves on the bottom. Used shutter and aperture priority. Used 3.2 megapixel setting and fine grain. Focus was center weighted. Auto white balance. 9mm focal length. Post processing - adjusted color balance, hue, saturation. Also added more contrast. Burned in many of the details of the ice and the leaves. Applied neat image to filter and sharpen image. Also used paintbrush on a number of spots that were all over the image. Resized, used unsharp mask and burned a little more.
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This is a really cool shot that could have been better technically, as mentioned in the comments below. However, here, your choice of subject is quite good.
A bit bright/ overexposed. Try to pull down the curve in curves in Photoshop to get better contrast. Concept is good, you get the idea of natural diamond cutting.
excellent choice of subject for this challenge. the white blowouts are bothersome... if this was outside on a sunny day, you could have prevented the blowouts by blocking the sun with a chunk of cardboard or something similar. also, a polarizer would have helped cut through some of the ice to let the colors beneath show through.
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