Autumn Leaves

© Phillip D. Minnis

Autumn Leaves

Uploaded: March 27, 2006 21:18:42

Description

This is a collage of five leaves, all picked from our Manchurian Pear Tree on the same day.

After each leaf was picked, I held it in front of the lens, set the camera onto 'Macro' and then pointed it directly to the sun. Each image was then adjusted, identically, using Photoshop Elements 3 - saturation was set to +15 and then the lighting levels were adjusted until I felt the image looked its best. All of the images were cropped to a size of 2200 x1500 pixels. They were then placed side by side on a blank canvas in Paintshop Pro Version 9, a 5 pixel black border was added, and then the image was resized to permit uploading.

Comments

Janine Russell level-deluxe March 28, 2006

Phillip, great colors, detail, exposure and lighting. #416450

Jessica Jenney March 28, 2006

Great work Phillip!!! #2583333

Linda McLellan March 28, 2006

excellent! #2584814

Karen Chappell April 25, 2006

Congratulations on making finalist!! #2687469

Stephanie Laird level-classic April 25, 2006

Congratulations Phillip! Wonderful Image! #2689200

Jessica Jenney April 25, 2006

Congratulations on this lovely finalist, Phillip! You put alot of work into it! #2689800

Evy Johansen level-classic April 25, 2006

Congratulations on your beautiful finalist, Phillip!!! #2691363

Rudi Neumaier April 26, 2006

I really love your idea! congratulations on your finalist. #2691389

Monika Sapek April 26, 2006

Wonderful idea! Many congratulations on your finalist, Phillip!
Monika
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Corinne M. Thompson April 27, 2006

Very creative and I commend you on all you did to achieve this...Congrats on your finalist! #2697955

Carolyn J. Connolly June 04, 2006

FABULOUS montage, Phillip, and a MOST deserved Finalist!! I LOVE the colours, lighting, details, AND presentation!! CONGRATULATIONS!! :o) #2852734

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