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Incognito in a world of colour
Incognito in a world of colour
dhare


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Challenge: Selective Desaturation (Advanced Editing II)
Camera: Nikon D70
Location: Home Aqaurium
Date: Jun 19, 2004
Aperture: F/4.5
ISO: 1600
Shutter: 1/125 sec
Galleries: Animals, Water
Date Uploaded: Jun 19, 2004

 His name is Fang.

Photographed in my aquarium, and then applied selective desat. I think it turned out well, looks kinda cool.

It's always hard to shoot fish in the aquarium, so I bumped up the ISO to 1600, so I could get a fast enough shutter speed (he's always moving), took the noise out with neatimage.. and it still looks sharp. I also spot edited some micro bubbles out.

He inhabits the aquarium with another clown fish, 4 green chromis, a cleaner shrimp, a yellow tang and some corals.

Shot with 18-70mm F/3.5-4.5 G

Statistics
Place: 16 out of 227
Avg (all users): 6.2723
Avg (commenters): 7.1364
Avg (participants): 6.1803
Avg (non-participants): 6.4125
Views since voting: 1945
Votes: 202
Comments: 27
Favorites: 7 (view)

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 Comments Made During the Challenge
06/27/2004 10:39:35 PM
I love clown fish...what a great photo..I have never had much luck with aquriam photography...its a great photo, good luck.
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 06/27/2004 12:52:06 PM
One of my favorite photos of this challenge. Good luck (9)
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 06/26/2004 02:27:07 AM
Alsmost looks 3-D. That's not lense bokeh is it? The blurring looks like it was photoshoped. Cool shot none the less.
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 06/26/2004 12:15:10 AM
Great shot maybe the subject is a little to central but still a real eye grabber.
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 06/25/2004 10:17:09 AM
Very nicely done.
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 06/25/2004 07:57:01 AM
nemo......
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 06/24/2004 08:23:18 PM
Nice NEMO photo!
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 06/24/2004 12:48:50 PM
Love the floating effect this image has created. Nicely done.
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 06/24/2004 11:07:04 AM
I really like this but maybe a tighter cropping (so that the subject, the fish, were a bigger part of the image and the background was less) would have scored higher.
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 06/24/2004 08:54:53 AM
Looks good
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 06/23/2004 08:23:49 PM
Nice and sharp! You've found Nemo! Composition is a tad boring though being smack dab in the center, almost looks copy/paste. Perhaps offsetting the fish or having its tankmates (assuming there are other fish in there) in the frame as well would make it more interesting. Capturing the fish in midturn or feeding also helps to make the fish look more natural instead of a static image.
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 06/23/2004 02:38:37 AM
Great work on the selective desaturation. The focus and vividness of the fish are great. Maybe some cropping to make the fish a larger part of the composition may have been nice, but that's just my own preference.
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 06/23/2004 01:15:29 AM
Sweet. Perfect depth of field, wonderful contrast, and just an awesome focus on the fish. Rated 9.
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 06/22/2004 06:06:15 PM
The centered composition isn't working for me. The fish, although nice and colorful, appears to be floating in space. totally detached from its surroundings. The background looks flat--almost as if it's a black & white image propped up well behind the fish.
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 06/22/2004 03:29:44 PM
I love the level of detail you managed in your desat, but I wish the background was a bit more focused. The fish looks like he is floating in front of the background, rather than swimming through it.
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 06/22/2004 02:51:26 PM
Nice colors.
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 06/22/2004 12:48:05 PM
lol, i almost sumitted a similar pic, but couln't get a good enough shot on the nemo-fish. great idea! :-) and love the title.
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 06/22/2004 11:53:05 AM
Fun, technically very good. Slight improvement maybe by putting the fish off-center, to give the impression of a complete ocean he's swimming into.
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 06/22/2004 07:41:20 AM
NEMO!
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 06/21/2004 06:05:56 PM
One of very few great shots in this challenge, outstanding work, .:10:.
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 06/21/2004 10:41:02 AM
Great picture - Looks like he's suspended in air - great clarity and Contrast
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 06/21/2004 09:32:24 AM
This is great! i love the centred composition of the fish (nemo?), and it really stands out beautfully from the blurred background. THIS is what selective desat is for, and it's been used to wonderful effect. only thing i would add that isn't praise, is that it looks like it's hanging in air, not water. don't know what it is, but it's almost TOO perfect... maybe the lighting is a little flat? dunno, i still love it to bits. 9.
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 06/21/2004 06:41:29 AM
Found Nemo yet? LOL good one. I would have put the fish a bit off center though.
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 06/21/2004 06:21:28 AM
Yay, I've found Nemo!!

Very nice pic
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 06/21/2004 05:58:25 AM
I guess you found Nemo...
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 06/21/2004 03:21:50 AM
way to go, 9
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 06/21/2004 01:59:33 AM
Excellent. Wouldn't change a thing
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