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So yesterday morning i decided to take the camera on a quick whip around the garden, just basically trying to capture as many different images of this paradise before i leave on sunday, and may never return unfortunatly. So it was a clear, fresh morning and everything was a little damp with the morning dew, and i thought i would call Nico (our horse) over to try and get some images of his face infront of the clear blue sky. But after he teased me by taking a few sheepish steps towards me from across the field, then stopping for a quick graze, i decided that there was perhaps better things to be doing and i headed back inside. When i passed the plants in this image however, a rainbow of colour quickly flashed across the surface of the droplets, catching my eye. So i stood there... taking a step back, a step forward, playing with the reflection of light from different perspectives... and the pics i took in macro mode came out better than any other pictures i had taken, which still isn't amazing or anything, but hey 1.3mgpxls is all i have got for the moment, but my dad is in singapore at the moment, Capital of cheap electronic goodies so maybe he will bring me a little something back.

Yeah so this looked sweet for different reasons at different stages, i could have finished it off after cutting the foreground leaf out and overlaying a gradient effect, and blurring the background slightly, but then i wanted typography, and that needed blending with a bit of line work, which in turn needed a pixel stretch yadda yadda, and it ultimatly took the beauty in simplicity out of the piece i think. So not 100% happy with this, but then thats why i heed critique on these matters. Cheers-

Fa11.

// EDIT // Moved the first version of 'matindanslejardin' to scraps, as i thought it was taking to much attention away from what i originally tried to achieve with this image. You can view the original over manipulated version here : [link]

i think i prefer this.

Fa11.

Description
So yesterday morning i decided to take the camera on a quick whip around the garden, just basically trying to capture as many different images of this paradise before i leave on sunday, and may never return unfortunatly. So it was a clear, fresh morning and everything was a little damp with the morning dew, and i thought i would call Nico (our horse) over to try and get some images of his face infront of the clear blue sky. But after he teased me by taking a few sheepish steps towards me from across the field, then stopping for a quick graze, i decided that there was perhaps better things to be doing and i headed back inside. When i passed the plants in this image however, a rainbow of colour quickly flashed across the surface of the droplets, catching my eye. So i stood there... taking a step back, a step forward, playing with the reflection of light from different perspectives... and the pics i took in macro mode came out better than any other pictures i had taken, which still isn't amazing or anything, but hey 1.3mgpxls is all i have got for the moment, but my dad is in singapore at the moment, Capital of cheap electronic goodies so maybe he will bring me a little something back.

Yeah so this looked sweet for different reasons at different stages, i could have finished it off after cutting the foreground leaf out and overlaying a gradient effect, and blurring the background slightly, but then i wanted typography, and that needed blending with a bit of line work, which in turn needed a pixel stretch yadda yadda, and it ultimatly took the beauty in simplicity out of the piece i think. So not 100% happy with this, but then thats why i heed critique on these matters. Cheers-

Fa11.

// EDIT // Moved the first version of 'matindanslejardin' to scraps, as i thought it was taking to much attention away from what i originally tried to achieve with this image. You can view the original over manipulated version here : [link]

i think i prefer this.

Fa11.