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X Marks Entrance to the Secret Garden
X Marks Entrance to the Secret Garden
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Challenge: X Marks The Spot (Advanced Editing VII)
Camera: Pentax K10D
Lens: Pentax DA 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 AF
Location: My Back Yard, Statesboro, GA
Date: Sep 27, 2009
Aperture: F/5.6
ISO: 280
Shutter: 1/180
Galleries: Rural, Textures
Date Uploaded: Sep 27, 2009

 Duplicated Layer, Auto-Levels, Duplicated Layer, Convert to Black and White (as Infrared B&W, Cropped, Luminosity Blending, Used Quick Select Tool to lift the Wooden X from the background, Layer via Copy, Flattened Image, Cropped a second time, Resized, Duplicated Image, Auto-Sharpened, Luminosity Blending, Merged Down, USM, Duplicated Layer, High Pass Filter @ 10.0 with Overlay Blending @ 81% opacity, Merged Down, Quick Selected the Background to Blur the Grain with Gaussian Blur, Saved for Web...

Statistics
Place: 57 out of 79
Avg (all users): 5.1429
Avg (commenters): 4.8000
Avg (participants): 4.9167
Avg (non-participants): 5.2333
Views since voting: 605
Views during voting: 256
Votes: 126
Comments: 6
Favorites: 0

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 Comments Made During the Challenge
10/03/2009 05:00:33 PM
Like the colors in the background.
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 10/01/2009 09:35:58 PM
Nice sharp focus, wonderful bokeh, almost too simple of composition, though; it doesn't hold my interest long... but a 5 for good technicals.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 09/30/2009 04:39:58 PM
Not that interesting
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 09/29/2009 11:46:37 AM
A little basic but meets challenge.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 09/28/2009 09:24:02 PM
This is just meh to me Defniitely meets the challege though! But overall, its just too plain, maybe if the background wasn't so blurred out?
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 09/28/2009 09:13:35 PM
beautiful bokeh, but I'm not sure the x is interesting enough to carry the picture.
  Photographer found comment helpful.


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