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Here is mine (just basic adjustments then crop + sharpen in PSE)
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Michel B
PSE6, 11,12,13.1 - LR 5.7 Windows 7 64 - OneOne Photo Perfect Suite - Canon 20D, Pana TZ6 - Fuji X100S
Most used add-ons: Elements+


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ACR for restoring clipped highlight... and a tad of painting to retouch pure white.
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Michel B
PSE6, 11,12,13.1 - LR 5.7 Windows 7 64 - OneOne Photo Perfect Suite - Canon 20D, Pana TZ6 - Fuji X100S
Most used add-ons: Elements+


Mes Galeries
Very nice, Michel. Thank you for playing.
Sunny
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Canon 40D; EF 100mm f/2.8 macro USM; EF 50mm f/1.4 USM; Tamron 17-50 f/2.8; EF-S 55-250mm IS.
Believe in your heart that something wonderful is about to happen.
sarch99 wrote: I like how Matt's preset highlighted the edges of the flowers, Chuck. I have the worst time taking pictures of red flowers......they always seem to blow out. This is a great improvement over the raw file.


Sunny, red flowers are the bane of digital camera sensors, and Canon seems to have more difficulty than some others. Advice I've seen is to use exposure compensation of -1.0 or even more to keep the reds from blowing out. That's not so good for the shadows (can lose details and experience more noise), but at least it keeps the reds in the ballpark. The recovery slider does work pretty well, though, if the other B and G components are still present.
Chuck
LR2/CS3/PSE6/Canon 450D, G10/Panasonic LX3
Thanks, Chuck. I'll try keep trying. :-)
Sunny
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Canon 40D; EF 100mm f/2.8 macro USM; EF 50mm f/1.4 USM; Tamron 17-50 f/2.8; EF-S 55-250mm IS.
Believe in your heart that something wonderful is about to happen.
Well here is my rendition of the statue. I first set the WB to Tungsten. Then used the gradient tool from the top down to some where below the middle, with the color picker to a neutral gray, then decreased exposure and Blacks, and increased fill light, then increased recovery for the highlights. Added some clarity and vibrance and just a little reduced saturation. Took the tone curve and picked strong contrast and then converted to gray scale and then Auto tone to my version of a sepia tone. Sharpend and used the vignetting tool quite extensively to try and cut off the busy corners. Framed in PSE-7 and here we are.

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Eddie :wave:
PS: I tried in Lightroom-2 using the clone or healing tool to remove the shadows on the statues face from his hand. No luck in Lightroom.
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Hi Edmond....welcome, and thanks for playing. You had quite the process to write down. It looks great!
Sunny
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Sunny's 12 OF 12
Canon 40D; EF 100mm f/2.8 macro USM; EF 50mm f/1.4 USM; Tamron 17-50 f/2.8; EF-S 55-250mm IS.
Believe in your heart that something wonderful is about to happen.
This image of the "ROSE" is beautiful to work on and a good learning tool. I did not change the color Temperature as I thought it was right on. I did a close crop and cloned out the green stem on the right side which IMHO was distracting. Worked my way down the develope module and very slightly increased saturation and a few other minor tweeks. I also sharpened and of course framed.

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Eddie :)
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HELLO EDMUND!!!! So glad to see you playing with us. You did a great job.
Great job on the rose, Edmund. That rose is one of my favorite flower pictures......
Sunny
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Canon 40D; EF 100mm f/2.8 macro USM; EF 50mm f/1.4 USM; Tamron 17-50 f/2.8; EF-S 55-250mm IS.
Believe in your heart that something wonderful is about to happen.
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