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Red Velvet Rose
Red Velvet Rose
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Challenge: Free Study 2008-06 (Advanced Editing VII)
Camera: Pentax K10D
Lens: Pentax DA 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 AF
Location: My Front Yard, Statesboro, Georgia
Date: Jun 8, 2008
Aperture: F/8
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/350
Galleries: Nature, Floral
Date Uploaded: Jun 8, 2008

 Mulitple Layers (at least half a dozen) create a blending effect of a red velvet rose on black & white background, Layers include one each of Black & White conversions to Infrared, Portrait, Landscape, Newspaper, and Urban Snapshots, followed by blending formats that included Overlay, Soft Light, Pin Light, Screen, Multiply, and Luminosity, Magic Wand (to grab the bloom and enable selective desaturation of background elements,) Select Inverse, Stamp Visible, Multiple Opacity Changes, Layer Order, Warming Filter, Stamp Visible (again,) Burn Tool, Blur Tool, Smudge Tool (to remove the upper part of a stem (Big distraction for me,) Cropped, Adjust Sharpness, USM, Despeckle, Dust & Scratches, Reduced Noise, Resized, USM, Saved for Web...

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Olympus OM-D E-M1 Mark III
Olympus 45mm f/1.8 M.Zuiko Digital
 07/07/2008 10:43:17 PM
I like the desat of the pic. The rose pops so beautifully now away from the background.
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Canon EOS-5D Mark III
Canon EF 70-200mm f/4.0 L IS USM
 07/05/2008 02:41:15 PM
not really a fan of the red only saturation, maybe if you would have kept a little background color it woudl have helped, but i like the placement of the flower in the frame
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Olympus OM-D E-M1 Mark III
Canon EF 24-105mm f/4.0 L IS
 07/02/2008 11:04:44 AM
Nice detail, good comp, and the desat works here because red goes so very nicely with gray and black.
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Canon EOS-5D Mark III
Canon EF 24-105mm f/4.0 L IS
 07/02/2008 03:03:03 AM
Really like the desat in this... Nice composition. 6
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Nikon D300
Nikon AF-S DX Zoom Nikkor 17-55mm f/2.8G IF-ED
 07/01/2008 09:45:47 PM
great processing here
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Nikon D40X
Nikon AF-S Zoom-Nikkor 70-300mm f/4.5-5.6G IF-ED VR
 07/01/2008 07:35:03 PM
very nice
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Canon EOS-5D Mark III
Canon EF 17-40mm f/4.0 L USM
 07/01/2008 09:30:27 AM
Good selective desat...watch your edges though.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Nikon D7200
Nikon AF-S DX Nikkor 35mm f/1.8G
 07/01/2008 09:20:59 AM
Nice selective desat.
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Canon EOS-40D
Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 II
 07/01/2008 07:01:50 AM
Nice photo .. just one ?
Did you do layer mask and a gau's blurr in Photoshop on this one as I think the effect was a bit 'overdone' right along the edge of the flower.. but still nice..;)
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Nikon D800
Nikon AF-S NIKKOR 24-70mm f/2.8G ED
 07/01/2008 03:32:22 AM
it has a sense of forboding about it...not sure if the selective desat worked for this...6
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