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Bleeding Hearts
Bleeding Hearts
Sammie


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Challenge: Complementary Colors III (Basic Editing III)
Camera: Canon EOS-30D
Lens: Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II
Location: Taos, New Mexico
Date: Apr 23, 2006
Aperture: F5.6
ISO: 500
Shutter: 1/500
Galleries: Nature, Floral
Date Uploaded: Apr 23, 2006

 Editing: Crop; Adjustment layers for levels, hue & saturation (red & magenta), curves; flatten image; noise removal; resize; save for web.

Took this in Taos on Sunday. There are all sorts of flowers blooming there - it is way ahead of La Jara where the grass is barely starting to turn green. I've always liked Bleeding Heart bushes and have never been able to get one to grow in our yard. I never noticed before how they have the liquid in the white area. I wonder if this is why they are called bleeding hearts or if the white thing is supposed to look like it's bleeding from the heart.

I used my new extension tube for the first time on my 50mm lens. I tried the 25 tube first but you had to get so close - changed to the 12 tube instead.

Statistics
Place: 146 out of 287
Avg (all users): 5.2016
Avg (commenters): 5.4167
Avg (participants): 5.1538
Avg (non-participants): 5.2222
Views since voting: 1035
Views during voting: 327
Votes: 258
Comments: 15
Favorites: 0

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 Comments Made During the Challenge
05/02/2006 07:16:09 PM
My favorite of the flower shots in this challenge. Beautiful.
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 05/02/2006 03:31:45 AM
Beautifully captured.
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 05/01/2006 09:12:36 PM
These really seem more pink than red.
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 05/01/2006 03:28:40 PM
Beautiful. Focus, colours and background blur are dead on.
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 04/30/2006 07:30:38 PM
interesting flowers
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 04/30/2006 09:19:22 AM
needs work but its ok
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 04/30/2006 08:58:16 AM
Pity about the distracting highlight at the bottom left background......otherwise a very good photo...great lighting.
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 04/29/2006 02:59:59 AM
Very nice, very detailed.
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 04/29/2006 02:24:33 AM
Nice shot. A little more depth of field (and excluding the leaves on the right) would have made this even better. The branch in the upper left is a little distracting. Perhaps shooting from a slightly different angle and/or not cropping so tight on the top and left? Good effort.
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 04/26/2006 11:29:14 PM
good shot
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 04/26/2006 06:18:02 PM
These seem a little pink for complementary colors. Nice shot, though and excellent crispness on the flowers.
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 04/26/2006 09:08:54 AM
Good Shot! great depth of field!
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 04/26/2006 06:49:06 AM
6 - Nice capture and composition, although for this Challenge, would like to have seen it 'complemented' by more green.
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 04/26/2006 05:34:47 AM
interesting flowers...nice capture
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 04/26/2006 01:11:21 AM
photo could use a little more saturation
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