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Nature's Hands
Nature's Hands
pcody


Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Selective Desaturation (Advanced Editing II)
Camera: Sigma SD9
Location: Lake George
Date: Jun 19, 2004
Aperture: 5.6
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/180
Date Uploaded: Jun 20, 2004

 Taken at a park.
Rotate, mirror and crop
Duplicate layer grayscaled. Erased the leaves on the tree. Merged. Copy. Undo the merge. Deleted the greyscale. Paste the copy.
Original layer. Selective desat on blue, magenta, red and cyan.
Blend mode.. akkk.. I forgot, but probably color.
Merge
Dodge and burn on the end of the wood.
Sharpen
Resize
34mm
I almost didn't process this one at all. Then I really looked at it and the wood started looking like a pair of hands. Hope someone else sees them.

Statistics
Place: 191 out of 227
Avg (all users): 4.6453
Avg (commenters): 4.3333
Avg (participants): 4.5556
Avg (non-participants): 4.7922
Views since voting: 685
Votes: 203
Comments: 9
Favorites: 0

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 Comments Made During the Challenge
06/27/2004 07:45:37 PM
Very nice, cool idea. Lovely.
Like the tree off center.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 06/27/2004 07:39:48 AM
interesting rock formation....to get the message across that they are nature's hands i think you should have just kept the sapling green...the rest of the vegetation is distracting
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 06/25/2004 05:03:36 PM
I think I would've just left the lone plant in color and turn everything else in black and white. Glare on the water is a bit distracting also.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 06/25/2004 01:01:18 AM
Threre are waaaaaaay too many things that missed desaturation. I would have left one or two similar items left color - not this much. The picture has excellent contrast. You certainly started with a great picture - if it had one item or a small set of items standing out I would have voted it fairly high.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 06/24/2004 08:24:22 PM
I Like It... Even in semi-barren areas things can prosper
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 06/24/2004 07:41:22 PM
Too much color to be effective for this challenge, IMHO.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 06/24/2004 07:42:35 AM
I like this photo, but I think I would have like it more if just the tree leaves were green.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 06/21/2004 01:53:04 AM
Too much in color, the point of this challenge (in my opinion) was to highlight something.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 06/21/2004 01:17:32 AM
nice feel
  Photographer found comment helpful.


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