Strawberry Creek on the UC Berkeley Campus, composited with a macro shot of Isaac's Canon A80 with its flip-out LCD screen and added telephoto lens to sustitute for a video camcorder.
Exposure stat field entries are for the creek photo.
-Handheld, super-macro mode for LCD shot: f/3.51 • 1/25 sec • ISO 400 • FL = 36mm (35mm EQ)
-Handheld, manual mode for creek shot: FL = 156mm (35mm EQ)
-Noise-reduction with PictureCooler for LCD shot
-RGB Curve to each shot
-Make masks for LCD screen and background
-Paste creek shot into screen area -- scale and re-position
-Paste creek shot into background area
-Duplicate creek layer
-Apply Gaussian Blur at 8 pixels to creek copy
-Do a little local touch-up: clone, dodge, and burn
-Save composite image to TIFF
-Resize
-Crop a little from the right
-USM at 66%/0.6 dia/TH = 5 (applied twice)
-SaveAs JPEG at quality 10/10 = 265KB
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