mmurphy

I spent many hours working on this image. There was a lot of effort

put into balancing the the exposure, eliminating noise, and general

clean-up. I'm happy with the result.

You managed to get good DoF, a nice quick shutter and caught a picture as nice as your subject's fish.  Great job!

I like this shot. I would appreciate comments and/or criticism.

Thank you.

This is a composite of four 20-second exposures. The building on the

left is the Meson Detector Building. The power poles in the center

are in the shape of the Greek letter Pi, hence their name: the Pi

poles. The small, pointy building to the right used to house the old

15-foot Bubble Chamber.

I took this image back in 1999 and scanned the negative in 2001 (not

coincidentally). I did the best I could with it back then - given the

low quality scanner used and my very novice editing skills. I've

since re-editied this shot with PS-CS4 and used a Noiseware plug-in to

minimize the scanner noise & film-grain effects. I'm pretty happy

with the result.

Noiseware plug-in applied

Here's a schematic view...

The lights are gone in this version - I agree it looks much better...

Alf & Roger,

Thanks for the kind words and good advice. I'll play some more with this orchid and see what comes of it.

I've been laid up at home for the past week following some medical

procedures. Sleep has been hard to come by, and while laying in a

chair and under the influence of painkillers I got an idea for a

picture. I'd just gotten the orchid and got the idea to set it in

front of my picture window at night. Last night, while free of meds,

I set the orchid in front of the window and turned off all the room

lights. The resulting light was ugly - streetlights - but it back-lit

the flowers as I'd wanted... This is more or less what I'd envisioned

that night: orchids glowing warmly from their hearts and achieved

without direct lighting. I'm sure there are better, simpler ways to

get this so any any advice would be appreciated.