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A late afternoon walk along the canal at Frampton,Gloucester provided some glorious opportunities in the setting sunlight.
This teasel head was being lit from the side so I exposed for this.
I did some editing in Photoshop CS3 using levels and desaturated slightly, with a small use of sharpening.
Any comments welcome
| Brand: | NIKON CORPORATION |
| Camera: | Nikon D80  Check out Nikon Nation! |
| Lens: | 17.0-70.0 mm f/2.8-4.5 |
| Recording media: | JPEG (digital) |
| Date Taken: | 12 Mar 2012 - 8:37 PM |
| Focal Length: | 34mm |
| Lens Max Aperture: | f/3.6 |
| Aperture: | f/6.7 |
| Shutter Speed: | 1/125sec |
| Exposure Comp: | -1.0 |
| ISO: | 100 |
| Exposure Mode: | Manual |
| Metering Mode: | Center-weighted average |
| Flash: | No Flash |
| Title: | Spring Teasel |
| Username: | 
mikewatson |
| Uploaded: | 16 Mar 2012 - 8:00 AM |
| Tags: | Close-up / macro, Flowers & plants |
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Thankyou for the detailed information about what you did with the image, Mike.
It's a good subject and you have isolated it well.
I feel it is still too dark and that there is a lot of detail being lost because of this.
I am surprised that you desaturated it. A black and white image would have worked well, but I feel it needs that bit of colour that is naturally present, especially considering the white background.
I have done a modification where I brightened the teasel, adjusted levels, increased saturation, sharpened, cropped and added canvas to the left. I also used Colour Balance to remove some of the blue.
In my second modification I mirrored the image, and gave it more of a tilt.
I had a bit of fun with a third mod, giving it a background.
Pamela.
Thanks Pamela for the constructive comments, I will consider these on my next visit to try and improve the composition.
I really do enjoy my photography and am always striving to do better.
You need to get honest critique like this to go that extra mile.
Thanks again
Mike
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