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Unexpected Landing


	Unexpected Landing February 2009-finalist Title: Unexpected Landing Entered: 2/8/2009 Category: Digital Darkroom This Photo as you can see is highly manipulated and was meant to look creative and very unusual. The hot spots are intentional!!!! If you view this photo with a BG of black the lighting looks great but if you view this photo against a white BG, this makes the lighting look more like hot spots. Tammy L. Newcomb

Rod Partington

Awesome image,Tammy! I love the way you reflected the butterfly colors in the eyes. Very cool post production work here.

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February 07, 2009

Tammy L. Newcomb

Thank you Rod P. and I looked at your gallery and you sure have some wonderful photos and I enjoyed looking at them...

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February 07, 2009

Stan Kwasniowski

Tammy, wow, awesome image, regardless of how it was done. I saw a similar one about 5 years ago on here and it was first prize, hope you do.

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February 07, 2009

Tammy L. Newcomb

Hey Thanks Stan and I am thrilled to see all positive responses so far....

Regardless, I am very excited about my creation and vision that went into this photo. It took me about an hour to pull this one off since I had to hand color the butterfly piece by piece which took a very steady hand and a lot of patients. BTW: I did not place the butterfly on my son's nose, that is just where the butterfly landed and stayed without moving when this little beauty escaped from her butterfly net and we were chasing her around the house...LOL....

Right now, I am liking Corel better than Adobe....

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February 07, 2009

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You were at the right place, right time...and very cool effects. Excellent work, Tammy!

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February 07, 2009

Aimee C. Eisaman

Awesome DD work girl! I'm very impressed! Love that amber color and the reflection in his eye! Bravo! :~)

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February 08, 2009

Tammy L. Newcomb

Ken & Aimee: thank you both for you support and the time you took to offer your comments. I was not sure how you all would respond but happy to see that everyone came here with positive comments.

Ken thanks for your help and I took your advice via my personal e-mail and did make some changes.

I have another copy of this photo done differently if any one is interested in looking at the changes. The photos are under my album called new arrivals.

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February 08, 2009

Tammy L. Newcomb

Ya know, when you view this photo against the black background, the hot spots (that are intentionl) do not distract and are not that noticable but if you view the photo against the white back ground the hot spots (as some may call them) are very noticable....Hmmmmm!!!!

Oh well, I entered the contest with the original and if it does not make EP then I will tweak with the photo some more until I get it right.

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February 08, 2009

Dawn M. Schneider

what a fantastic piece of art. I like everything you did to it and it is very creative, nicely done my friend

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February 08, 2009

Tammy L. Newcomb

Awh......You came back to comment again. Thank you so much for taking time to leave such a wonderful and postive comment...You are such a dear friend. BTW: I finally got time to go and comment on some of your photos but not all of them. Your gallery is looking great.

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February 08, 2009

Sharon

Awesome work!! It's amazing & I love it!!

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February 10, 2009

Tammy L. Newcomb

Thank you Sharon K. and I am honored to have your opinion since your work has been amazing.

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February 11, 2009

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