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Butchart Gardens


Butchart Gardens
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Copyright: Robert Harrison (seneca77) Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 298 W: 89 N: 369] (2097)
Genre: Places
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2007-08-08
Categories: Nature
Camera: Canon EOS 300D, 18-55mm/f3.5-5.6
Exposure: f/5.6, 1/125 seconds
Photo Version: Original Version
Date Submitted: 2007-09-20 18:25
Viewed: 1529
Points: 8
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note
Looking down on the Sunken Gardens within Victoria's famous Butchart Gardens. Over 50 acres of flowers, shrubbery and trees provide a veritable feast for the photographer. In the three hours I spent there, I think I shot about three hundred images.

Hopefully the sky doesn't look too fake - I exposed for the main scene and the sky got blown out. In Photoshop I selected the sky with the marquee tool, ending just below the bottom-most portion of the sky. I added a selective color layer and selected white as the color. I also checked "absolute" in the dialog box. I then adjusted the cyan and magenta sliders until I got a reasonable looking blue sky. I then used the gradient tool (with black as the foreground color and white as the background color) and drew up slightly on the blue sky to give it a bit of a transition from light to dark.

Sharpened slightly and re-sized.
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I like the shot - it looks somewhat similar to Minter Gardens also in B.C.

  • Great 
  • hasan42 (122)
  • [2007-09-20 20:05]

This is a beautiful garden! It would be diffiult for me to leave this place, if I ever had a chance to get there. Thank you for sharing.

Hello Robert

Beautiful visual, charmed with this beautiful garden, a beautiful postcard of this place.
Wonderful composition, she would be a triumphal entrance here for the Spring in Brazil.
Congratulations for the look and his good taste.

sergio
:)

Hi Bob,
Great shot of the park and the walking people. Beautiful colours, nice compo. Congrats and tfs. Best regards, László

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