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Nighttime shooting lends a unique perspective.
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@Macromondays: Usually I post a weekly picture in the swedish flickr group ”Fotosöndag” (Photosunday). Last week I found out, that there also is a group on mondays. Since I love taking pictures (especially with a given theme you have to think about for one week) and I also would like to explore macro photography more than I have done so far, there was no doubt about to join ”macromondays”. This weeks theme ”abstract” is perfekt for macros. My personal challenge was to find an everyday object with any kind of structure or pattern that is interesting enough for a abstract macro picture. I chose a comb (very everyday…) and my children’s Lego Duplo plate.
The original for this shot was a photo of a water lily taken at Longwood Gardens near Philadelphia. I then made a reflection of the lily using the Flood filter in Photoshop. I then used the Liquid filter (fun, but is slow without a lot of RAM) to decontruct the reflection a bit. Some areas became transparent during the process (you could see the background grid), so I selected those areas and then used the Clone tool to fill them in. I then used the blur tool a bit to soften some edges in the reflection. It sounds more complicated than it is. Copyright 2007 www.jeffwignall.com. There are some free Photoshop tutorials on my site. And there is an article on the Flood filter on my blog: www.jeffwignall.blogs.com.
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