| Photograph Information | Photographer's Comments | 
		
			| Challenge:  Product Shot II (Advanced Editing VII) Collection: Flowers and Bugs
 Camera:     Nikon D700
 Lens:       Sigma 100-300mm f/4.0 EX IF HSM for Nikon
 Location:   Springfield, VA
 Date:      Mar 21, 2010
 Aperture:   f/8
 ISO:        1000
 Shutter:    1/1600
 Galleries: Floral
 Date Uploaded:      Mar 21, 2010
 
 
 | And they are all those things ;-) 
 Shot this about half a dozen times from different angles and with different lenses till I got something that showed the early spring flowering aspect of them.
 
 I don't expect much from a flower shot in this kind of challenge, but I just couldn't make myself stay inside much at all this week.  Spring was calling, loudly.
 
 PP - tonemapped in qtpfsgui (pregamma 0.697, Mantiuk mthod, contrast mapping 0.1, saturation factor, 1.107, detail factor 1), vignetted (mostly blur) and merged with original at 20% transparency, cropped, burnt background some, white balance, shifted yellows a little oranger and increased saturation on them, resized, sharpened, blurred background some more, added border.
 | 
	
	| Author | Thread | 
| Comments Made During the Challenge  | 
		
			|  | 03/28/2010 06:18:10 PM | 
		| | Pretty shot of the flowers, nice focus selection | 
 | 
|  Photographer found comment helpful. | 
		
			|  | 03/26/2010 02:03:20 PM | 
		| | Really not sure what the product is. | 
 | 
|  Photographer found comment helpful. | 
		
			|  | 03/24/2010 07:45:38 PM | 
		| | The blur looks added in post - whether that's the case or not, it looks that way, and it can be a bit disconcerting.  I do like the idea of real daffodils in place used as the ad!  (Commenting only.) | 
 | 
|  Photographer found comment helpful. | 
		
			|  | 03/24/2010 07:11:50 PM | 
		|  | 
|  Photographer found comment helpful. | 
		
			|  | 03/22/2010 05:11:03 PM | 
		| | i would like to purchase a dozen of the blurry ones, please. | 
 | 
|  Photographer found comment helpful. | 
		
			|  | 03/22/2010 07:17:36 AM | 
		| | I like your composition. I think you are going to suffer with the voters because this isn't a studio-type setup, which is a pity. | 
 | 
|  Photographer found comment helpful. | 
		
			|  | 03/22/2010 02:57:32 AM | 
		| | A beautiful daffodil! Love it! | 
 | 
|  Photographer found comment helpful. | 
			Home -
			
Challenges -
			
Community -
			
League -
			
Photos -
			
Cameras -
			
Lenses -
			
Learn -
			
			
Help -
			
Terms of Use -
			
Privacy -
			
Top ^
		DPChallenge, and website content and design, Copyright © 2001-2025 Challenging Technologies, LLC.
		
All digital photo copyrights belong to the photographers and may not be used without permission.
		
Current Server Time: 10/31/2025 06:21:49 PM EDT.