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"Chief Red Cloud"
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Challenge: Two Colors (Advanced Editing VII)
Collection: Portfolio
Camera: Canon PowerShot S3 IS
Lens: Canon 250D 58mm Close Up Lens
Location: Oakland, California, USA
Date: Mar 6, 2011
Aperture: 3.51
ISO: 800
Shutter: 1/79
Galleries: Abstract, Blur
Date Uploaded: Mar 6, 2011

 Close-up of camellia bud and leaf seemed to me to closely resemble the classic profile of a Native American in Plains regalia.

Lousy light (overcast/rain) necessitated use of ultra-noisy high ISO setting and extra-aggressive noise reduction = more blur.

-Tripod, timer
-Manual mode
-FL 436mm (35mm EQ) plus close-up lens
-Clone out stray dirt specks and reflections
-A little local burning to tone-down bright spots
-Noise-reduction with PictureCooler
-RGB Curve
-Hue/Saturation layer to adjust green slightly
-Crop a little from bottom
-Resize
-USM at 16%/64 dia/TH = 0
-USM at 88%/1.3 dia/TH = 5
-SaveAs JPEG at quality 9/10 /= 298KB

Resized original:

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AuthorThread
 09/24/2012 02:05:21 AM
Definitely representative. I wonder how it would look in b&w?
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 03/14/2011 07:15:13 PM
This was mine brown!! :)
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
03/07/2011 07:00:48 AM
too soft and noisy.
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