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Day 14: Bug
Day 14: Bug
Rebecca


Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Camera: Nikon D80
Lens: Nikon AF Zoom-Nikkor 18-135mm f/3.5- 5.6G ED DX
Location: Lakewood, CO
Date: May 14, 2007
Galleries: Black and White, Transportation
Date Uploaded: May 14, 2007

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 Not much shooting today, trapped indoors this evening by thunderstorms. Shot this from the balcony out of desperation and ended up kinda liking it.

Convert to b/w with channel mixer
duplicate layer: soft light
flatten
curve to darken midtone
flatten
dodge/burn car
resized

dup layer of background, blend normal, really aggressive USM
dup layer of background, blend normal, gaussian blur
**played with fill % on both USM and blur layers until it looked "right"
smart sharpen background (normal sharpening)

flatten
save for web

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 05/15/2007 10:02:06 PM
I love the contrast of tones in this shot.....
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 05/15/2007 11:39:43 AM
Great contrast and a little glow effect works well here Just that peace of a roof on the foreground seems a bit distractive.
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 05/15/2007 07:39:50 AM
Almost glows.. I like that. LIke the well defined areas too.

Jack
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