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Around the Yard - Painted Sunflower

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sparky63 Kayak Maniac Registered: January 2005 Location: upstate NY, USA Posts: 386	My wife's dwarf sunflowers are just coming into bloom. This image looked a little soft to me, so I applied the 'Brush Strokes - Accented Edges' filter to "rescue" it. I'm fairly happy with the result. What do you think?
	· Date: Mon September 8, 2008 · Views: 2640 · Filesize: 206.5kb · Dimensions: 800 x 640 ·
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	Keywords: sunflower Photoshop filter
	Photographer: Michael Boldt
	Critique requested?: yes
	Lens Used: 50mm 1.8
	Camera Used: Canon 300D

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Queen Josephine

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Tue September 9, 2008 8:56pm

I like it, but that probably won't surprise anyone since I am a fan of the part art/part photo type shots. Sunflower shots are always strike me as such happy shots too. Did you use layers, or work on the original?

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sparky63

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Registered: January 2005
Location: upstate NY, USA
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Wed September 10, 2008 8:51pm

Thanks for the comments, QJ. I agree that sunflower shots always seem happy.

Usually I use layers (my original degree was in CAD/CAM), but this time I worked directly on the original. I'm curious ... why do you ask?

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Stephen Schwartz

Registered: April 2005
Location: Vancouver, B.C.
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Thu September 11, 2008 12:09am

What effect did you use on the background and in the center?

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sparky63

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Registered: January 2005
Location: upstate NY, USA
Posts: 386

Thu September 11, 2008 7:43pm

I liked the composition, but didn't get quite enough DOF ... a couple of the petals were OOF. So, I decided to apply an "artistic" filter to it and started playing around in PS. After a bunch of failed trial-and-error (I'm a master of the cntl-z command

), I applied the 'Brush Strokes - Accented Edges' filter with default settings and the resulting image is pretty much what you see. I sharpened it bit after reducing the image size for web publishing. Otherwise, straight 'Accented Edges'.

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Mike

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