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This shot was taken at Moraine View State Park, about 20 minutes away from my
house in Bloomington. The rain for the day had finally subsided, so Sara and
I dropped the top and went for a drive. I was hoping to catch some lingering
drops of rain water on the leaves, but I was a little late for that. Nonetheless,
there was still some remaining water on the leaves, which married with the sun
to provide a special level of contrast.
I prefer the black-and-white shot. I left the color shot for you to compare. I
did the split shot on a whim.
I used Photoshop to produce the black-and-white shot. A simple click of
the de-saturation feature, and I was mostly done. I made a very slight
adjustment to the shot's contrast in order to bring out the outline of the leaf.
The color version had absolutely no editing done to it. The split shot was a
simple process of limiting my edits to half of the image.
Take a closer look at the black-and-white shot, and see if you notice that optical illusion
that I did. To me, it looks like half of the leaf is top-side-up, and the other half is top-
side-down. If you then alternate your viewing between the color and black-and-white
version, the image seems to "right" itself. I found that it helps to also look at the
other two leaves. Am I the only one who sees this?
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Camera: Olympus E-10
Mode: Program, Macro
Metering: Division
Shutter Speed: 1/80 sec
Aperture: f2.4
ISO: 80
Focal Length: 17mm
Contrast and Sharpness were set to normal.
Original File Size: 2240 x 1680, 2,361K at 1/2.7 Compression
The camera was fitted with a Sunpak UV filter.
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