Cranesbill 2

Rating: 8
2 Ratings since 2008-06-11 19:44

Description
Second one of this flower.Taken in my garden with a Canon 400d and 55-250IS lens at 250mm,tripod mounted.Shot in raw and converted with Canons Digital Photo Professional raw program.

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flower - perennial - cranesbill

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Some rights reserved. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License.

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azeem wrote on 2008-06-11 19:44 GMT:

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hello davels

very nice photo

i have 3 questions please

first the background blur did u do it by photoshop or is it done by the lens?

the frame around the photo is it made by photoshop or some other program?

the colors look very real did you change them with photoshop?

thank you

davles wrote on 2008-06-12 15:31 GMT:

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Hi Azeem,thanks for your comment.

To answer your questions:

1. The background blur is entirely natural,the Canon 55-250mm produces excellent bokeh.
The camera was is AV mode and the settings were aperture f16 shutter speed 1/160 second using evaluative metering.
2.The frame was done in photoshop,it is very easy to do and takes about 20 seconds to create.If you would like to know how it is done just ask and I will do my best to explain the method.

3.The colors were produced by the camera,I shoot raw and have used a picture style that I created myself with Canons picture style editor software that is available as a free down load from Canons website.The style I created was based on the neutral picture style that is already on the Canon 400d.

So that is basically it, all done by the camera and subsequent raw conversion, with the final resizing and border done in photoshop.

davles wrote on 2008-06-13 17:20 GMT:

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To make the frame you have to begin by going to the tool bar in photoshop and locate the two squares near the bottom of the palette.The uppermost square should be set as white and the lower square should be set as black.A quick way to do this is to hit D and then X on the keyboard[do not hit too hard or you may break it.]

On your chosen image go to Select> select all and this will put a line of marching ants around the image.

Then go to Edit>Stroke and the stroke dialogue box should appear,enter an an amount of between 2-5 pixels where it says width and where it says location, choose inside.Click OK and when this is done go to select >deselect.You should now have a white key line around your image.

The next thing you have to do is go to Image>Canvas Size and check the box where it says relative, and where width and height are indicated enter a value of between 100-150 pixels and click OK.You should now have a black frame that looks like the one around my image.

You may have to use pixel values that differ from the ones that I have suggested because the the values are image size dependent.On a small image for web use it may be necessary to use smaller pixel values and conversely for an large print then you may need to increase the pixel values.

It was more complicated for me to type these instructions than it is do carry out the procedure and I am sure you can work it out.Have fun.

Regards,Les.

azeem wrote on 2008-06-13 21:15 GMT:

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i am sure you had a lot of laughs thinking about me following your instruction about entering a value between 100-150 pixels

the border was larger than the original 10 mega pixels image

but thanks for the detailed info i got the same result you got but after putting a value of 2 pixels in the canvas size

davles wrote on 2008-06-14 01:26 GMT:

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No I did not have a laugh about you entering the wrong pixel values,but when I was typing out the instructions I was reminded of the time that I entered 150 inches instead of pixels and clicked OK.My computer then gave up and completely froze

Les.

falcon wrote on 2008-06-16 11:45 GMT:

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Lovely shot, nice and clear
Kay