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Camera: Sony Alpha a55
Lens: Sony SAL 30M28 AF Macro
Date: Jun 16, 2011
Aperture: 8.0
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/80
Date Uploaded: Sep 24, 2011

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Comments: 4
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A day lily bud, which always look like visitors from another planet, so I had layer blending fun until it looked 'right' to me. It lost a lot of low-key detail when I uploaded it.

When I look at something, I notice my mind filters out a lot--I pay attention to what interests me. But a camera just captures everything. It's only in editing that I can put attention on what interests me. I kept working on this until I saw all the parts that didn't interest me just fall away into the black. What's left is odd-looking. I do see lily buds opening as kind of visitors from another planet.

There are a lot of little sparkly bits on a lily petal that reflect the sun in a metallic hot-pixel kind of way. Sometimes I edit them out because they look like mistakes. Sometimes I leave them in, like on this one.

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09/29/2011 10:40:44 PM
This flower looks a little malevolent - all balled fists and gaping maw.

eta Mary saw the fists too. I just noticed her comment.

Message edited by author 2011-09-29 22:41:52.
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09/26/2011 10:11:19 PM
I'm seeing fists ;-) Know what you mean about the sparkly bits in daylily petals. Hard to capture them and have it enhance the image and yet I always like seeing them.
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09/26/2011 06:20:12 PM
Looks like a foam of the ocean, nice!
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09/25/2011 11:38:44 AM
Almost like something is transforming from the dark. COOL
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