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16-JUL-2006 CJ Burianek

16July06 The Rustling of a Cool Breeze - 12428

Japanese Maple in my backyard

Last Year's Photo

Photo a Day, 16 July 2006... I have this huge pile of Adobe books I keep telling myself I'll get through... some day... Just like I'll take my Photoshop Adobe Certified Expert Exam... some day... In a small accomplishment, I actually managed to complete the Adobe Classroom in a book for InDesign this afternoon... so decided to go out and NOT look for something to photograph. Instead I walked around with the camera at my eye and only looked at things through the camera. Doing this with the 100mm macro and a +4 Closeup lens made the world rather interesting... I especially loved the japanese maple tree leaves. Their color is sort of bla from the undersides a muddled mixure of greens and reds... so I simply changed the white balance in ACR to get the blues... I have some others including some photoshop variations on this on which I'll post later on but figured I should explain a bit...

Variations and Alternates:

ACR (changed white balance to get blues), some dodge/burn with masked layers, Framing, Resize, Sharpening - Photoshop CS2

Canon EOS 20D ,Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 Macro USM
1/80s f/5.6 at 100.0mm iso200 w/ +4 close up filter hide exif
Full EXIF Info
Date/Time16-Jul-2006 15:11:04
MakeCanon
ModelCanon EOS 20D
Flash UsedNo
Focal Length100 mm
Exposure Time1/80 sec
Aperturef/5.6
ISO Equivalent200
Exposure Bias-0.33
White Balance (-1)
Metering Modepartial (6)
JPEG Quality (6)
Exposure Programaperture priority (3)
Focus Distance

other sizes: small medium original auto
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lou_rozensteins17-Jul-2006 08:53
Very nice presentation. Voted.
Mom 17-Jul-2006 02:50
Very interesting effects and love the different shades of blue.
Bob B.17-Jul-2006 01:15
Nice image. Like the Blue also!
chrisse16-Jul-2006 20:55
Really "cool"-looking blue. Great photoshop-work CJ.
chrisse
Leo Charette16-Jul-2006 20:37
Connie, a lot of work on this and the color and form are beautiful. The 'out of framing' works well!
carol j. phipps16-Jul-2006 20:35
Exciting form and icy blue.
Naoki Hayashi's Photo Gallery16-Jul-2006 20:34
Amazing color & light.. Love the blue tone & transparency!! V.