September 1997 - Beautiful NSW Waratah [Telopea speciosissima] at the Joseph Banks Native Plants Reserve, Kirrawee, Sydney, New South Wales

IMAGE INFO

- The Waratah [Telopea] is the official floral emblem of the state of New South Wales.

- Wiki link: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waratah

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SOURCE INFO

- Original image was captured with a SEAGULL DF-300 SLR camera (an authorized Chinese clone of the Minolta X-300 / X-370), using KODAK Gold 400 35 mm color film & fitted with a SIGMA 28-200mm f3.5-5.6 Compact SLR Aspherical Hyperzoom Macro lens.

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PROCESS INFO

- Digitized from the faded, grainy, original color negative film using a CANON Canoscan 8800F scanner.

- Significant enlargement with film grain/noise reduction & sharpness enhancement made with Topaz Gigapixel AI software.

- Image accent, colour balance & saturation siginificantly enhanced with Skylum Luminar Neo AI software.

- Final fine editing with Adobe Photoshop CS2 [Windows].

- Image size = 3188x4214px [13.4MP].

Done