Photographer’s Notes I was fooling around with my camera trying to capture the feeling a child has at Christmas. Do you remember the excitement? How everything seemed to sparkle? The rich colors … reds, greens, silver and gold? I shot a similar image with a different ball and different lighting for the “All I Want for Christmas” challenge; and it scored better than I thought it would.
I think this one is better, but there were a lot of Christmas Balls in the last challenge, too many and I fear voters may be tiring of them. Maybe the genre will hold up for … one … more … challenge!
Post Processing • Convert from RAW (PSCS4)
• Reduce Noise (Neat Image)
• Saturate (Hue/Saturation Layer)
• Remove Dust (Clone Layer)
• Crop
• Resize (Bicubic Sharper)
• Sharpen (USM)
• Selective Blur (Masked Gaussian Blur)
• Border Blur (Masked Gaussian Blur)
• Hairline Border (Stroke layer)
• Save for Web
Camera Data • Date: 2008-12-20
• Camera: Nikon D3
• Lens: 70-300 mm @ 300 mm
• ISO: 800
• Aperture: f/32
• Shutter: 4 Seconds
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