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Mercury Rain
Photo Information
Copyright: Prasan Kapoor (kingdome) Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 122 W: 3 N: 79] (358)
Genre: Places
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2007-06-23
Categories: Nature
Camera: Canon PowerShot S3 IS
Exposure: f/3.5, 2 seconds
Photo Version: Final Version, Original Version, Workshop
Date Submitted: 2007-08-10 15:21
Viewed: 848
Points: 46
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note
Just after rain shot of a leaf soaked in nature's own and pure nectar.

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This image has been touched up a bit using Corel PhotoPaint.
Prominent areas where I thought a little work was needed were:

Color balance: Masked everything other than the leaf in focus and increased the gamma by a degree or two.
Saturation: Increased it by a degree or two again to add richness to colors.
Sharpness: Added a few degrees of adaptive sharpness and reduced a bit of noise.
Size: Cropped a little from below so that image is a little more neat and balanced.
Focus: Masked the leaf and then used Gaussian blur to increase tidiness.

Also for better presentation I have added a frame which has been given a glassy look using wet mode as i found it most suitable considering the color scheme of the image.

Hope I did justice to the actual shot and thanks to Alper (twin) for timely and needed advice :D
Cheers!
Jens, chocolate29, PierreFrigon, MLINES, eyesthetix, feh2006, shabsslg, touristdidi, hderin, mugush has marked this note useful
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Like a cristal bol
Well seen very nice photo
RuudBlok

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  • Jens Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 558 W: 52 N: 1139] (4661)
  • [2007-08-11 1:32]

Hey Prasan
This is a excellent work, great colors, and a realy good COMP and sharpness, well done and TFS.
Jens.

../PL.

Hello There

Superb capture here and very suitable title, Lovely crisp image and very good framing too.

TFS regards Helen

Namaste Prasan,
I love shots with drops, glittering like jewels, very well done, thanks and greetings
Sabine - wishnugaruda

Very crystal looking. Excellent.
Excellent sharpness and details.
Well done
Pierre

Hi Prasan,

That is a very nice macro shot. I love the sharpness of the water drop and colors. TFS.

Kiran.

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  • c_rapp Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 955 W: 20 N: 1282] (7282)
  • [2007-08-13 15:43]

Beautiful capture! Good work done too. TFS
Christan

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  • twin Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 423 W: 122 N: 200] (7348)
  • [2007-08-14 10:43]

hi Prasan,
this one is much better. by trying more you will be much better...
thanks...

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  • MLINES Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 1314 W: 96 N: 1026] (8508)
  • [2007-08-15 16:38]

Hi Prasan. Welcome to TL.Very good macro of the water droplets on the leaf. Good natural look about this. TFS. Murray.

Hola Prasan...!
Bonita idea y colores!
Gracias por tu comentario, hasta otra,
Mical :)

Welcome in TL
I like this picture very much
the composition,the colours,
the idea
and the good timing
but I think it´s a little bit unsharp isn´t it?
but well done
Toba

Hi Prasan,
a fascinating effect here.
Focus is very good in the subject area - the narrow DOF has worked very well.
Very good work!

Just a personal thought: I'm sure it will also look interesting with some PP- more saturation (for more rich greens) and with perhaps a slight contrast boost - I could do a WS to show you what I mean - that is if you want..
But otherwise it's a good shot the way it is.

Best regards, Daniel

hi Prasan,
Excellent images, super comp and sharpness. Very nice effect with the droplets. Super!
Regards
Flemming

Hi Prasan! I like the big droplet as the subject. You can use smart-sharpen to make your images sharper, if your using Photoshop. You can also saturate it to make it more interesting.
TFS,
Freddie :)

Hi Prasan, this is a great macro! And nice waterdroplets.
Well achieved, nice colours, and very sharp.
Good use of dof.

Well done! Yan :)
ps: many thx for the crit on "Rideau Falls" :)

Nice image. I like the way the water avoids the leaf.

Pedro

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  • dbp Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 680 W: 9 N: 97] (4079)
  • [2007-10-05 0:12]
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hi Prasan
nice shot with great pov
interesting reflections
tfs
David

I lik the little worlds inside the drops!

Hi Prasan,

I missed your photographs. Why you are not share news ?

Warm regards :)

Haluk Derinöz

Hi Prasan,
what a nice macro shot, I likes a lot these reflections and textures,
thank you and best wishes,
Elena

wonderful work.. very nice composition.. DOF is mind blowing.. wanted to post workshop but saw workshop done by "eyesthetix"(Daniel)He did excellent job..
I have seen all picture you have posted so far,i am glad you post picture along with informative note(which helped me a lot to find out what exactly your point of view was)
thanks for sharing
love
mugush

Hello Prasan,

You have an eye for beauty and for detail! Wonderful subject and composition. I am sure if I look hard enough I could figure out what the image is in the large drop of rain?

Take care,
Bettina Marie =0)

Excellent close-up!
The details are very well captured, and the refraction in the drop adds to the beauty...
Well composed presentation, and the macro work is well done!
Ana

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