one of my favourites in this topic...still didn't figure out what it is...

Thanks, Dana. You have to guess, it's easy...

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Colourful. love it.

Thelma,you beatnick.
You woul 'dig' those colors;-)
Philippe,I also like what you have done here.
Computer certainly came to mind for me.

I take all my photo in raw using adobergb98 600 ppi.
i open my raw image in cs3 and just adjust recovery
if there any overburn area, until red almost dissapear
dont go over 50% if you must play as little with exposure to compensate (as it will be fix later with level.dont fiddle with other as contrast it will be corrected later
then i open it in cs3.
first i do a level adjustment.
then a select all, go to filter adjust
sharpen - unsharp mask
amount 344% radius .04 pixels treshold 14 pixels
after go to filter noise - reduce noise
strengh 5 preserve detail 33% reduce color noise 60%
sharpen detail 22%.
then the usuall crooping and size adjustement for publication.
it work in 99% of the case if the take was 80% good at the start.
sometime you may have to vary the radius and treshold in unsharp mask
it doesnt correct movement blur,
that is my personnal recipe hope it work for you as it does for me

Mario, thank you for the detailed comment.

I used PS CS, so I don't have exactly the same possibilities, like the noise filter (I use Noise Ninja and it does make the pics a little blurry).

Also, I use the unsharp mask differently. In most cases: amount 125, radius 1.2, treshold 1.

Philippe
try my unsharp mask data
yours radius is a little to high for the treshold
of 1 to take effect in a positive ways,
hope to hear from you again
Mario

I'll try. Thanks, Mario.

Belle prise de vue, appropriée au thême et qui l'aborde de manière original. Peut-être le sorte de coussin coloré en trop (tu me comprends !!) et un fond, malgré le traitement, trop présent. J'aime la maîtrise de la lumière qui nous amêne a un rendu de la matière réaliste. A la prochaine.

Merci pour le commentaire, Eric. Pour le coussin, j'ai pensé à l'enlever, mais je me suis dit que ça mettait une touche de couleur...

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love it. belongs in reflections too! :~)

:-)))))
(et je suppose que sa mère l'attache dans la poussette pour ne pas qu'il s'envole entre les immeubles ?)

Je serais curieux de voir à quoi ressemble spidermom...

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great picture! love the colors and idea. Well done.

Love the humour, idea.

...and it's a real fish!

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Waat?! You mean the swimming pool has REAL fish in it? What will the world come to next? :~)

A real fish... from the sea!

:o)))

love it.

Thanks, Lolly. The only infrared I ever made...

I've never seen a coloured IR image, but knew it could be done... However, philippe, there is something else I've noticed now that I look at it further. When looking at it as the smaller version within the Comments page, the foliage to the right of the yellow dress looks like another person, in black of course! Tell me what you think? Perhaps that was intentional, or just a happy accident...really surreal!

I'm not sure I see the same thing... In any case, it's an accident (how disappointing!)

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Everything about this is awesome!

Thank you, Carl! It seems every Japanese is a photographer!

This is really funny.Looks like she is tired of waiting for men!