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Thank you my friend for the nice words.

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Maggie for stopping by and inserting the email conyent.

Mary, I have the same thoughts as you do about the colors but I'll see if I can fit the yellow in the bgnd net time.

Dear Biswajit, thank you for the comment.

Spencer, thank you.

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Stan, Spencer and George for the fine compliments.

Spencer, thanks for the visit and thanks for the nice words. Spencer, I have a room where I keep my pets.I have a few reptiles here and they just roam freely around the room. Thanks again,

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Dpwnload and look at this on your monitor, let us see if you can see all shades, k?

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Don't get distracted by the edit, it's VERY close to your own and you have already done an excellent job of capturing this. Your flash work is right on the mark and your colors are rich and plentyfull. I just like a bit more of the ambiant light that's all.

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By creeping in the shadow! This is very beautiful bird Dave and your caoture has made real justice to it's colors. The composition is very efective for me to put the focus on the bird and the afternoon sun looks pretty good in the background. Was this a raw file, clip shadows around the neck?

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"This is for fun and I, for one, do not intend to make anyone feel obliged to do anything they have no time for." LOL, It's for friends like you who come up with questions. I know of at least three other friends who are VERY new to PS. Therefore it is not much use explaining how to avoid much of the noise resulted from sharpening if they don't know about layer work!

"I must contact Audrey Reid as she commented on this photo when I loaded it on another site. She said something has gone wrong on this as the flower was not sharp."

Welcome to the world of macro where DOF could be paper thin! I looked at 100% crop and the focus on the petals are just fine, specially for an out of the camera file.The center of the flower however, is just a bit out of focus. Also yellow is a high luminusity color and light can go through, specially when over exposed and hence, give it a softer look. But I do think, you could have put your plain of focus closer to the tip of the stamens(manual focus) and that would have given you an even softer leaf in the background. How tall werer the stamens? Also, remember, you have a bigger DOF with a P+S camera than a DSLR.

I think I'm going to stop this discussion about sharpening here and do it some place else and start form the basics. Also, some friends are very new to Photoshop and I think it's going to be helpful to do it in a way so that they get to find their ways around the program as well. It's going to take some effort from every one who likes to be involved and we are going to discover layer work as well. So, if I can get involved in this then we should have a start date and do it.

Totally with Andrew and you just can't take your eyes off the eyes!

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You do beautiful work and this one is no exception. You have achieved a striking combination with the yelows/orange, purples and the greens, very nicely executed.

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for your time amd kind comments. Your encouraging remarks are uplifting.

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You are right about your discovery. Sharpening is really an increase in local edge contrast. If you don't have mant sharp edges but have textures instead, then you may want to change your sharpening technique. By the same difinition Mary, more contrasty photos give an impression of more sharpness. AND, as you know, sharpening DOES NOT improve a missed upportunity for a sharp focus at capture time but it does give you that impression.

If you have a photo that you want to see if it could be sharpened, I'd be glad to have a go at it and maybe others would like to try it as well.

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"Just as an aside: I have been reading that there is a possibility of recovering RAW from in camera jpegs. Well....... another matter to consider."

CS3 is supposed to tackel that issue but don't expect a miracle. Just how much is compressed JEPG file can take you back to an original high content raw file, is to be seen.

It seems like you already know what you have here, a very umique photo! You got all detail of a bird or something like that, captured nicely. You have the eye, the beak and flapping wings, all sculptured in ice and I'm sure, you positioned yourself to make it all come together, beavo!

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Really fine capture Mary, you are doing such nice work. The focus, color and framing are all just right on this. And yes, I see you are using a different backdrop now! You may want to exagerate that hint of a catchlight though.

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What have you done here my friend! Excellent, one of the best firework photos around and DIFFERENT! I will have to comeback here for rating though. Bravo Alin, I'm so glad to see this shot in your portfolio!

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This is called a Day Gecko here in the States where I am. Would it be consider a hawaiian Day Gecko?

Whatever the name is, you are right, it's a very interesting reptle, VERY beautiful and extremely fast. is this in the wild?

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Alin, Fred, Pascal and Shawn for your time and kind remarks. I appreciate you stopping by.

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Thank you so much for the detailed comment my friend. You know, I had just shot this the other day and wasn't sure. So I E-mailed it to Maggie, MM meehan, and this is exactly what she said about all what you have just mentioned about the eye, the skin and the background, Great minds must think alike!!

About a yellow backround instead of purple, well, I'll try that too sometimes soon.

Thanks again,

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That was fast! Thank you my friend for the comment, much appreciated. Yes, I particularly like this one too.

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