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Emerging from the depths

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Posted by Philip Schwarz on August 24, 2009 at 11:22 AM
Emerging from the depths
A White Water Lily taken a few weeks ago at a local pond with my 200-500 mm lens.
Comments welcome.

Phil Schwarz
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Posted by Ramamohan Pai on August 24, 2009 at 12:05 PM
Philip, Nicely seen. I like the leading line (is that the stem?) and also the surface tension effect closer to the lily petals :cool:
Posted by Mike Klarich on August 24, 2009 at 2:29 PM
Very cool shot. Love it. :toast: You may want to clean up some possible light noise from about the level of the reflection down to the bottom of the image.
Posted by Philip Schwarz on August 24, 2009 at 6:07 PM
Ramamohan, Mike the faint line leading off to the right is indeed the stem of the plant. It shows up a lot better on the original.
Posted by Mike Klarich on August 25, 2009 at 4:18 PM
I thought it might be a posting problem. Sure wish the site would except higher resolution images. I could see the stem through the water, but around it there appeared to be some noise in the clear blue water. Sometimes you can get this to happen when global sharpening is added to an image. Still a great shot Philip!
Posted by Kerry Leibowitz on August 26, 2009 at 1:49 PM
Really nice, Phil. Good eye to spot this and great job technically keeping the water from going inky black without blowing the flower highlights. Flowering water lilies are very tough subjects to handle well and you did a great job here.