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Challenge: Gold (Advanced Editing IV)
Camera: Canon EOS-30D
Lens: Tamron SP AF 28-75mm f/2.8 XR Di for Canon
Location: Home
Date: Jul 18, 2006
Aperture: F/5.6
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/160
Galleries: Nature, Astrophotography
Date Uploaded: Jul 19, 2006

 well, I'm predicting a mid 5, but I really like this image and think I did a pretty good PS job, not to mention camera stuff. Was a nice experiment.

The moon was a printed cut out hanging from ceiling with a strobe and makeshift snoot directly behind it, I painted a fake butterfly gold and taped it to the back of my ring finger with a thin wire, did some healing to get rid of any traces. I used layers and extracted both the hand and the butterfly and did their color balance, hue/saturation, contrast and sharpening separately. Burned the hand a bit (lol, that\'ll always sound funny to me) and put a blue photo filter over the moon.

Was a pretty cool process, I know, elementary, but it\'s fun to be learning and to have gotten this pic pretty close to what was in my head while staying within the advanced editing rules. Now I\'ll just have to figure out how to add glitter and swirly dust w/o the rules (and maybe gold glowing light from the butterfly or something)...

Ok, here's playing around with sparkly stuff:


Here's the original:


Statistics
Place: 15 out of 296
Avg (all users): 6.4631
Avg (commenters): 7.9231
Avg (participants): 6.3689
Avg (non-participants): 6.6049
Views since voting: 3253
Views during voting: 431
Votes: 203
Comments: 24
Favorites: 11 (view)

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 08/02/2006 11:36:23 PM
You're really on a tear with your images. You'll be getting a ribbon any day now! Another fine work!
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 08/01/2006 09:29:55 PM
Originally posted by levyj413:
...I wondered whether this was from scalvert.


ROFL! I just read this after I posted. Trust me, my hand's not as pretty. ;-)
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 08/01/2006 09:09:10 PM
Brilliant idea and an outstanding setup. The lighting and expressiveness of the hand are exquisite. Well executed, and worth a fave.
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 07/31/2006 11:08:41 AM
Congrats, see what shooting the moon will get ya.
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 07/31/2006 03:34:10 AM
I love this image it was MY 10!! VERY WELL DONE!!
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 07/31/2006 02:12:27 AM
WTG Amanda!
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 07/31/2006 01:34:49 AM
Congratulations on your top 20 study with this lunar beauty.
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 07/31/2006 01:20:41 AM
Congratulations on a top 20 finish,very clever work and processed well,looks like a top 10 the way you are comming thru the ranks with this image.
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 07/31/2006 12:53:31 AM
Congrats on a great shot! I gave it a 7. The biggest compliment I could give is that I wondered whether this was from scalvert.

Thanks for sharing your thought process and post-processing steps, too.
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 07/31/2006 12:15:45 AM
WOW! Very creative. I didn't vote this one, but would have scored ya a 10! Nice work.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
07/30/2006 12:58:45 PM
Technically perfect. My pick for one of the top ten
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 07/29/2006 01:50:21 PM
Very well done. I believe it's flying - nice hand position and great lighting.
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 07/26/2006 11:57:38 PM
Marking as a fav, need to know how you did this! In my top 10!
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 07/24/2006 09:05:39 PM
wow very nice lighting and subject choice...
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 07/24/2006 07:06:30 PM
Very creative idea
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 07/24/2006 06:37:50 PM
Very nice. 10
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 07/24/2006 03:37:50 PM
Fantastic composition!!!!!!!!!!!
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 07/24/2006 02:12:34 PM
Very cool shot. 9
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 07/24/2006 11:29:40 AM
Interesting photo!
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 07/24/2006 07:24:06 AM
Very well executed and rates high on being different.8.
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 07/24/2006 05:26:36 AM
Nice idea! 9
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 07/24/2006 01:02:48 AM
beautiful, this reminds me of the cowboy bebop movie with elusive golden butterflies...:)
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 07/24/2006 12:49:43 AM
Great Job!
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 07/24/2006 12:35:07 AM
beautifully done...not sure what the gold thingy is...insect or leaf???
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