Radially
By Brian Auer • April 17th, 2008
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This was shot using all natural light (it was in the shade on a very sunny day) and the camera was handheld with a 50mm lens. This plant caught my attention as I walked the canals of Venice, California — it was along the sidewalk behind the houses. The pattern was so very strong, and the colors so deep that I couldn’t pass it up. The water droplets on the plant were just icing on the cake.
- Unprocessed RAW
Straight out of the camera — untouched. - Processed RAW
I did a few basic adjustments to get the white balance correct and to bring up the contrast and saturation. Nothing very extreme though. - Dodge & Burn
Here, I used non-destructive dodging and burning techniques to really make the contrast stand out where I wanted it. - LAB Saturation
Using the technique I outlined previously for boosting saturation via LAB color mode, I strengthened the greens that are so inherently present. - High Pass Sharpen
I used a very subtle sharpening by running the high pass filter and setting the blend to overlay at 50% opacity.
As you can see, lots of little changes really add up from start to finish.
Brian Auer is a photography enthusiast from North Idaho. He's also the guy behind the Epic Edits Weblog. As a hobbyist photographer since 2003, his passion has been to constantly improve his photography skill set, to share his own knowledge with others, and to become an integral part of the photographic community.
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Hello Brian,
Great image first of all.
However, your caption says ’75mm’ but you also say it was shot with a 50mm lens….please explain. Did I miss something?
Thanks,
-Frank
Thanks Frank. I did shoot the image with a 50mm lens, but I post the focal length as 35mm equivalents. So with a 1.5X crop factor on my digital camera, that 50mm lens equates to a 75mm if it were on a full frame sensor.