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23-JUL-2008 © Earl Misanchuk, M4 Multimedia

Nature's optical miracle

A drop of rainwater in a lupin leaf acts as both a magnifying glass and a mirror (note the sky). I deliberately underexposed
by 3.5 EV so that the shutter speed was enough to counter the slight breeze that made the leaf quiver,
while retaining appropriate depth of field. In Photoshop, I corrected the exposure, saved as a DNG file,
then imported that into Photomatix to create a pseudo HDR which was subsequently tonemapped. QED.
For before and after images, look here.


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