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Postby the foto fanatic on Fri Jun 03, 2005 3:06 pm

Nikkor 105mm micro; f22; 1/30sec lit by LS II (click for larger pic):
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Postby sirhc55 on Fri Jun 03, 2005 4:45 pm

When I clicked and looked at the larger pic it came to life - a very nice pic Trevor
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Postby the foto fanatic on Fri Jun 03, 2005 5:03 pm

sirhc55 wrote:When I clicked and looked at the larger pic it came to life - a very nice pic Trevor


Thank you Chris - I appreciate the compliment. :D
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Postby xerubus on Fri Jun 03, 2005 5:53 pm

great shot Trevor... great colours and contrast!

how are you finding the lens? are those colours tweaked in PS etc or straight from the shot?

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Postby the foto fanatic on Fri Jun 03, 2005 6:05 pm

xerubus wrote:great shot Trevor... great colours and contrast!

how are you finding the lens? are those colours tweaked in PS etc or straight from the shot?

cheers mate..


G'day Mark

The lens is great - very sharp and contasty. I find auto-focus for macro work to be a bit problematic. Manual focus seems to work best for me.

I have PPd this shot. I applied some Gaussian blur to the background.

With most pix from my camera, I find that I need to tweak saturation and sharpness. I hope I'm improving in that area.

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Postby ozimax on Fri Jun 03, 2005 7:52 pm

Thanks for the comment Chris, sure is even better as bigger image, wonderful shot Trevor with amazing colour, Max
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Postby Matt. K on Fri Jun 03, 2005 9:10 pm

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Nice shot...but screaming out for some PP in Photoshop. I would suggest selecting the iris using the pen tool with the image magnified to 200% and then inverting the selction and blurring the background. Then add a canvas texture to the background and maybe darken the background. This would make the iris pop.
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Postby mic on Fri Jun 03, 2005 11:51 pm

Nice Glass & nice flower

Well done Trev :wink:

That would be interesting what Matt has suggested, Hmmmmm :roll: :roll:
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Postby the foto fanatic on Sat Jun 04, 2005 11:44 am

Matt. K wrote:cricketfan
Nice shot...but screaming out for some PP in Photoshop. I would suggest selecting the iris using the pen tool with the image magnified to 200% and then inverting the selction and blurring the background. Then add a canvas texture to the background and maybe darken the background. This would make the iris pop.


Here it is :D

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Postby Killakoala on Sat Jun 04, 2005 12:01 pm

'Tis a beautiful flower. Nice rich colours and i like the new background too.
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Postby KerryPierce on Sat Jun 04, 2005 12:31 pm

I agree with Chris, looking at the larger image is so much nicer. Great looking shot. :D
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