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This just showed it's head in our garden, so thought I'd better snap it's neck....
That's nice.
I'm not going to say much more because these black & white-with-a-bit-of-colour images are really beginning to irritate me. Every man, woman, and their dog, cat, fish, and clean pair of underwear seem to do them! But that's just me... this one works because it has a purpose and a focus. Producer & Editor @ GadgetGuy.com.au
Contributor for fine magazines such as PC Authority and Popular Science.
...well I am the only man who doesnt do them...and that because I dont know how
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Any quick links to how to do this in Photoshop CS? BTW nice pic of the hibiscus...only critique would be the shaow line across it...
Magnetic lassoo the flower. Select inverse. Image>Adjustment>Desturate. Or something like that.
Seeing how Leigh likes them so much, I think a few more are in order.  D3, D300, 14-24/2.8, 24-70/2.8, 85/1.4, 80-400VR, 18-200VR, 105/2.8 VR macro, Sigma 150/2.8 macro
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I don't know how, and so far have refused to learn... one less annoyance for Leigh 
I too dont know how to do this!!! Definately works in this photo, may have to give it a go sometime! (maybe). Nikon D80, Nikkor VR 80-400mm, Nikkor 18-135mm (kit lense), 90mm 2.8 macro, Tamron 2x AF TC
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I'm with you 110% on this Leigh, That extra 10% is because I don't really agree that this one has any more purpose than the others. And one can include in that the red garment in Schindler's List. Cheers, Last edited by Sheetshooter on Fri Nov 04, 2005 8:41 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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Walter "Photography was not a bastard left by science on the doorstep of art, but a legitimate child of the Western pictorial tradition." - Galassi
I'm not necessarily a fan of this type of photo, but I don't understand why Leigh and Walter are dismissing this technique as having no purpoise. Surely it's as much a way of leading the viewer's eye to what is considered to be the main subject in a photo, just as much as leading lines or blurring the background.
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Phillip **Nikon D7000**
I don't dismiss the technique as having no purpose.
Often with these images, there's no focus or reason for the whole technique to be occurring and the artist or Photoshopper (sorry, Adobe... user who uses Adobe Photoshop) is simply doing it to make the image stand out, and usually it fails because the image has no reason to use this technique. Producer & Editor @ GadgetGuy.com.au
Contributor for fine magazines such as PC Authority and Popular Science.
If you have a busy background, you can make the subject stand out just as much by desaturating it as you do by using shallow D.O.F. I think that's a good enough reason. __________
Phillip **Nikon D7000**
I think this image has a definate purpose, what cc@t is trying to depict is that the colourful flower represents a small glimmer of hope in what is generally a bleak world (represented by the colourless background). What is says is that, with hope, we can all look forward to a future where we are all one with the universe.
I don't understand why no-one else saw this, pretty obvious to me. 'Tis better to have loved and lust than never to have lust at all.
Next time you're in the garden can you get me some of that weed of yours also, please Stu?
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Walter "Photography was not a bastard left by science on the doorstep of art, but a legitimate child of the Western pictorial tradition." - Galassi
Must have been the Triffid in Gerard's Garden http://dslrusers.net/viewtopic.php?p=131989#131989 'Tis better to have loved and lust than never to have lust at all.
smac hit the nail right on the head - that was the EXACT look I was trying to portray...but with the added - all hope is failing fast and this forum is the only path to redemption!!!!
Oh sh#t - we're in trouble! 
Personally, the pic is a bit "pink" for me..... I think the full colour version would look nice though.
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