Critique Required Apple Leaf.

[Glen Roberts]

A few weeks ago I was bored and tried a couple of leaf shots. I struggled to get anything remotely interesting so they all got deleted except this one which I had a play with.

RAW file processed in Photoshop's raw thing (ACR???) with a bit of split toning then tweaked in CS3 till I was somewhere near happy with it.


Apple Leaf Split Tone by Shaggy 2070, on Flickr

 

[Hamish Gill]

I like that Glen
the purpley/sepiay split just works doesnt it!?

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... think you might need to clean your sensor though ...

 

[Glen Roberts]

I never noticed that Hamish.
Don't trust myself to do a sensor clean so I'll have to look a bit more carefully next time and use the clone tool in CS3.

 

[Darren Turner]

love that processing you achieved Glen really makes a different look to that simple leaf

as for sensor cleaning, i bought some opteka swabs that are correct size for sensor and they worked a treat only cheap to from amazon. I was scared but nowt to be scared off, i have done it a few times and has always got rid of dust bunnies so far.

Daz

 

[Chris Dodkin]

Wow - love the detail and the PP, and also the OOF backdrop

This is a super strong graphic image - would make a good art print I reckon

 

[Hamish Gill]

Im with Darren! face that fear head on!
I use (and wouldnt touch anything else) "visible dust" swabs!

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... its old school forum in this thread!

 

[Darren Turner]

Hamish do these visible dust swabs already have some sort of cleaning agent on them IE ready to use straight from packet ??

These optaeka ones i bought are individual sealed and are just about ever so lightly damp if that's the right word lol

 

[Pete Askew]

You usually need so fluid also with the Visible Dust ones. One drop of the appropriate one. The thing I like about the Visible Dust ones is the different sizes and also their smear removal fluid.

Nice shot Glen (even with the spots - what was that line in the Joni Mitchell song?!) and I like the toning.

 

[Beth Carter]

sweet shot! wonderful split toning and details.