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Challenge: Selective Desaturation II (Advanced Editing V)
Camera: Sony DSLR-A100
Lens: Sony DT 18-70mm f/3.5-5.6 Aspherical ED
Location: front yard
Date: May 15, 2007
Galleries: Black and White, Floral
Date Uploaded: May 16, 2007
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Shot on manual setting. Set up was tripod, self timer, and a watering can sprinkling water on the tulips. In pp first cropped then created a background copy. Went to layers, hue/sat, and first did yellow, sat -100%. Next went to green, then blue, then red with setting at -100%. Decided that I wanted a bit more color so erased at 75% around parts of the tulip, which allowed a bit more color to come through without losing the desat idea. Flattened image and adjusted levels, shadows and highlights, and brightness and contrast. Dodged and burned parts of the tulip to bring out more shadow details as well as to bring out the drops of water more. Resized and sharpened at 34%, radius at .4. Also spot sharpened some of the veins in the tulip as well as the water at the base of each tulip. |
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07/01/2009 06:06:11 PM |
| Hi June. On your profile page this one caught my eye because the rain seems curved. I didn't see the desat right away. I like this for the relationships between the water, the tulips, & the light. |
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10/24/2007 12:27:24 PM |
| Wonderfu. Nice colors, composition, and water always seems to add something special to an image. |
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05/30/2007 07:22:48 AM |
| June - The lighting on this was so nicely done - i loved how the rain/ shower gave it that little extra pop! |
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05/28/2007 01:50:35 AM |
Wow, June. This is really great.
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05/23/2007 01:29:57 PM |
| This is neat, nice capture and work. |
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05/22/2007 11:22:46 AM |
| It was hard work going through the challenge entries to find two that I liked. Yours is one of the photos. 10. |
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05/21/2007 02:09:38 PM |
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05/21/2007 11:09:28 AM |
| looks like the rain came out a can; on the left are no drops. But otherwise well done |
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05/21/2007 09:26:14 AM |
| Good lighting and raindrops perhaps even shallower DOF for more blurred background may have helped? Good luck |
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05/21/2007 03:22:14 AM |
| the desaturation is almost not visible here |
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