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Heavenly Blue
Heavenly Blue
JunieMoon


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Challenge: Pastels (Advanced Editing IV)
Camera: Sony DSLR-A100
Lens: Sony DT 18-70mm f/3.5-5.6 Aspherical ED Zoom Lens for Sony Alpha
Location: backyard
Date: Aug 30, 2006
Galleries: Floral
Date Uploaded: Aug 30, 2006

 Shot with aperture priority, multi metering, vivid color. Used 70mm focal length and exp. compensated +0.3 steps. Post processing - first layer, adjusted brightness, contrast and added a soft edge border. Second layer, working with background, desaturated, adjusted color balance to create a beige look, and added back pink tones to the old blossams. Third layer, worked with leaf and morning glory flower. Lightened leaf and adjusted color balance to a paler green, then adjusted color balance to antique slightly. Lightened flower and dodged a bit to enhance the white of the bloom. Burned the shadow of the stamen. Fourth layer, adjusted entire image with a lightening to pale out further and then added back some color to the flower to make appear a little less washed out. Resized and sharpened.

Statistics
Place: 22 out of 203
Avg (all users): 6.3046
Avg (commenters): 6.8571
Avg (participants): 6.2933
Avg (non-participants): 6.3115
Views since voting: 1713
Views during voting: 326
Votes: 197
Comments: 19
Favorites: 5 (view)

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AuthorThread
 03/20/2008 12:46:34 PM
The color son this are exceptionally well done. Beautiful photo and a brilliant capture.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 02/10/2007 07:26:52 PM
lovely colors
09/17/2006 02:39:04 PM
i love that blue!
Very other worldly and very fine detail on the petal
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 09/11/2006 08:57:45 AM
Beautiful image. Well done!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 Comments Made During the Challenge
09/10/2006 04:14:00 PM
Beautiful capture of light and pastel hue.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 09/09/2006 08:16:03 PM
I like the effect but I find the bits of the plant on the top and right to be distracting... I think this would have worked better had they been cloned out.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 09/07/2006 03:03:50 PM
Lovely morning glory (if it is). Very pleasant, sharp, coloured view.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 09/06/2006 10:03:22 PM
I like this shot a lot - very dreamy
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 09/06/2006 11:53:30 AM
Good picture but I think the vignetting is distracting and the photo would be better without it. The lighting is very nice.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 09/05/2006 08:33:40 PM
Beautiful lighting!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 09/05/2006 07:38:47 PM
Wow...doesn't even look real. Beautiful.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 09/04/2006 10:32:41 PM
This is really lovely! I love the flow of the blue petals. I can almost see it super imposed on a twirling dancer as her flowing skirt. The background is mildly distracting but the angle of the branch works. I like the softening effect you used on the edges.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 09/04/2006 06:43:47 PM
Yes! This pic is "heavenly"!
 09/04/2006 10:42:17 AM
This has a sweet ethereal quality. Morning glories are lovely but man, they'll take over a garden too.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 09/04/2006 10:21:54 AM
Great lighting of the flower
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 09/04/2006 05:25:53 AM
This is one of my personal Top 10.
 09/04/2006 04:31:01 AM
nice image
 09/04/2006 02:35:51 AM
lovely
 09/04/2006 02:09:34 AM
Best flower shot so far


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