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2 VERY good ways to say "I love you"
2 VERY good ways to say "I love you"
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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: My place, Marangaroo, Western Australia
Date: May 19, 2007
Aperture: f5.6
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/40 sec
Galleries: Emotive, Floral
Date Uploaded: May 20, 2007

 Yes, I'm a romantic. This is my wife's hand in front of black velvet.

Converted from ARW to TIF and transferred to PS. Desaturated by adjustment layer and layer mask, cloned out some distracting leaves, merged the visible layers, reduced saturation and lightness of the red channel a bit, cropped, noise ninja run twice, resized in several step downs, unsharp mask twice at 30%, added borders using canvas size, saved for web.

Statistics
Place: 386 out of 556
Avg (all users): 5.0913
Avg (commenters): 0.0000
Avg (participants): 4.9500
Avg (non-participants): 5.6000
Views since voting: 1025
Views during voting: 300
Votes: 230
Comments: 3
Favorites: 0

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Canon EOS-350D Rebel XT
Canon EF 28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM
 06/24/2007 07:34:28 AM
The idea behind this was an excellent one. I love the water on the flower petals, and feel just a tad more technical effect would have made this better. Emotionally I like it a lot.....
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Canon EOS-7D
Canon EF 24-105mm f/4.0 L IS
 05/31/2007 05:39:40 PM
Hi from the Critique Club

Fit: The image fits the topic.

Composition: Composition is good. We have our eye drawn nicely around the frame with points of interest along the way.

Technical: Here's where the 100+ 5's came IMO. While you have sharpened (twice) the image has a soft feel to it. DPC doesn't often like that. There also seems to be some noise in the black background, the hand may be a bit close to the velvet so the lights are showing that up a bit? I also think that have two saturated objects that aren't too linked may have caused confusion in some voters ie: what is the element I am supposed to be focused on?

Feel: I think the image is good but it lacks that something that makes me want to linger and examine it. More sharpness in the rose may have helped a lot.

PM me if you have any queries.
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Canon EOS-5D Mark II
Canon EF 24-105mm f/4.0 L IS
 05/28/2007 12:48:16 AM
I find this strange finishing this far down compared to some of the higher images. A good team finish 5+
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