Don't know if everyone will see the fire angel. But at least it will not DNMC. ;)
Compressed raw, opened in Capture. Sharpened, adjusted contrast, and saturation in raw conversion. Imported to CS2. Cloned out a few pepper imperfections and a couple of hot pixels. Sized to 615 on long side, then added a black border.
Applied smart sharpening and saved for web per DPC size requirements.
Original _DSC3470.NEF
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Jeez Louise! I should have taken pic of a bunch of matches! hehehehehh
Thanks lots to all who voted and commented on
my submission. I doubt anyone will read this far down in the results. ;) I guess nobody could visualize my flame angel. Also I forgot to set the F-stop to 5.6 or 8, so the faint pattern on the background stood out and looked like noise!
Duh! Slaps forehead!
Nice clarity on the peppers, though it looks a touch oversharpened along some of the edges judging by the haloing. The background is quite noisy, but nothing a pass through NI shouldn't be able to fix. It might also add a nice smooth gloss to the peppers.
Nice composition and use of colour. Really Really could have done with some noise removal - probably will cost this shot a lot in the score stakes. 7 from me.
WOW! Good use of complementary colors, composition works well for you here as well. My only nit pick is that it's a bit dark on the bottom peppers. Great shot that you should be proud of, 9 from me.
Bear? Just kidding. I know he likes to shoot peppers. Nicely composed. There are a few MINOR issues with the processing (halo, noisy background), but I like it. 7 for now (this is the first shot I'm seeing).
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