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Which one works best..........or neither?

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R B

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Coming from Kodachrome11 I'm used to composing & cropping in the viewfinder & I find myself doing the same with the G2, I�m happy doing this. But to really change what I got in the camera to something else is new to me. The old me prefers the natural coloured leaf, but I find myself drawn to the novelty of the altered leaf.
Straight from camera
Photoshop touch up

regards rod

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Re: Which one works best........thats for you to say as the artist - Joe M 07:41:21 03/16/03 (2)
How do you want to present it to your viewers ? If it was shot for a seed catalog ,they need a natural botonist look. If you intend to show your photo art for people's walls, it's your call... here again is my take based on your leaf. I used levels in photoshop and unsharp mask,along with a diff crop.To take the spoke like stem out of the center and move offcenter to the left. I hate dead center subjects!
I moved to left because I saw Whitish stems more on that side in your original, and white or lighter areas have the effect of moving your viewers eyes off the print.By eliminating those white zones, it brings the viewer into the pic.I always crop out any white near edges of my pics for that reason in competitions!
As you know playing with photoshop is very addictive, and a vast array of effects are possible. It's knowing when to stop.
- I like that........................(nt) - R B 16:33:26 03/16/03 (0)
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  regards rod
- as the artist....this is one of my leaf art works - Joe M 07:56:59 03/16/03 (0)
  No longer a photo print on a canvas or textured printing paper this takes on a painterly quality.

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