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	Mother & Child ~flowers~ Aimee C. Eisaman

Dale Hardin

I like this a lot Aimee. It's reminiscence of a young cub peaking out from the protective cover of a mother lion. Lovely soft treatment with wonderful color matching of the background. The background lighting is a very nice touch.

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July 30, 2010

Jeff E Jensen

Two thumbs up for this one Aimee!

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July 30, 2010

Peter W. Marks

Wow Aimee, I do believe I have finally got through to our ancient friend and he is now seeing 'stories' in images. He will be writing poetry next!
very nice image and I for one would like to know how you set this up and what pp you used. Will you share please?

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July 30, 2010

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This is a beauty Aimee. I love the tones and the BG color is perfect. Just great the way it is and ready to print and hang.

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July 30, 2010

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Beautiful, Aimee. I too, love the BG tones and lighting.

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July 31, 2010

- Rita K. Connell

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I believe you have a winner here...this is a awesome picture very well put together. your lighting on both of them is very nice. you get two more thumbs up from me.

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July 31, 2010

Aimee C. Eisaman

Thanks my Phellos! I'm very happy with this one and think it's going to end up my favorite from the photo walk. I'll show ya all the original and say that I did add a texture to it and did use a Florabella filter to get the intial look of richness I wanted. I did some selective blurring, some burning of highlights and added a vignette, also applied a high pass filter to key areas on the flowers.

I'm so sorry I'm not able to give step by step directions to how I do things. When ending I have no logical process of work. I just open the image and what jumps out at me first is what I work on then once that is done I'm inspired by something else in the image. I almost never know what the end result of a photo will be until I get there. I know Dale will work diligently for weeks even to devise a process to get a certain look from images....I really applaud him for that. Not an easy task! :~)

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August 01, 2010

Dale Hardin

Aimee, I work that way also and then try to remember what the heck I did!! Labeling the layers has helped me retain a bit from time to time.

The bottom line is that you had a very good image with excellent DOF and good composition to start with. So not only did you achieve photographic excellence when taking the shot but placed the frosting on the cake with out standing creativity during the post processing. Your skill is growing in leaps and bounds.

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August 01, 2010

Aimee C. Eisaman

O Dale thank you for making me feel better! LOL I have been working lately on getting better exposure and DOF in camera! :~)

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August 01, 2010

Peter W. Marks

And all the above beautifully explains why I never get winners. What can't be photogrsphed in five minutes I pass by and what takes over ten minutes of head-scratching in Photoshop merely confirms I should have taken longer to make the image in the first place!
But I do take longer chosing the bon mot in my writing. :0)

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August 01, 2010

- Ellen H. Robertson

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This is beautiful. Love the treatment and the texture.

I would have been extremely happy with the original and you took it to a magical place.

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August 01, 2010

Carla Capra Anderson

WOW, Aimee!
I'm slightly familiar with some of the techniques you've used; blur, burn, high pass. The others well, swoosh flying over my head, lol. A beautiful transition and wonderful editing!!
Carla

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August 02, 2010

Teresa H. Hunt

Aimee this image is stunning! Your original is beautiful!

I am seriously going to have to talk you into giving me an editing lesson! LOL!

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August 02, 2010

Aimee C. Eisaman

Peter....I get aggrivated if I can't spend some time on photographing one thing. The photowalk was nice, but I had to leave what I was working on all the time because the group was moving on. I guess we all have our ways!!! :~) Thanks!

Thank you Ellen I had wanted to enter this as my photowalk contest entry, but I already put the butterflies in and for some reason the site won't let me change it even though they have a button for that. :~)

:~) Carla....I'm certain that you know more than you think after seen the work you do. Don't worry one day you'll be working on an image and light bulbs will come on....happens to me all the time. O...so that's what that button does! LOL Thanks!

Teresa you want lessons from someone that can't remember how I did it! LOL You crack me up! :~) Thank you though you make me smile!

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August 02, 2010

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Wonderful! Now for sure you need to print and hang it. Congratulations on a very good finalist.

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September 15, 2010

- Ellen H. Robertson

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Knew this one had to be here, we will see another prize for this one.

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September 15, 2010

Dale Hardin

Congratulations Aimee. A forgone conclusion.

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September 15, 2010

Aimee C. Eisaman

Yeah I guess I do need to have this printed now! Wonderful what kind of paper....I'm thinking metallic might look nice! Thanks all! :~)

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September 15, 2010

Jeff E Jensen

Congrats Aimee!

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September 15, 2010

Teresa H. Hunt

Oh yes, this would look fantastic on metallic paper.

Congrats on your Finalist!!

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September 15, 2010

mjkellyphotos.com - Michael Kelly

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I would go with it on a mat type paper. Perhaps a watercolor rag. Definitely not a glossy for these great tones.

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September 15, 2010

Carla Capra Anderson

Congratulations on your finalist!
;) CC

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September 15, 2010

Jeff E Jensen

This would look really good as a canvas gallery wrap as well.

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September 16, 2010

Aimee C. Eisaman

Thanks for the ideas on printing. Well it's between metallic and matte. I'd love to do a canvas wrap, but I'd lose the comp because it's so close the to edges. :~)

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September 16, 2010

- Nancyj E. Hovey

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C O N G R A T U L A T I O N S
on your very deserving FINALIST! 8o)

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September 16, 2010

Jeff E Jensen

C O N G R A T U L A T I O N S ! ! !