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Gallery: Photo ArtPosted October 8, 201186 views7 comments

These two dragonflies landed facing each other on a small iron fence and I thought they looked like insect replicas of Raiders and Bengals linemen. This is in photo art because the red DF is a replacement for an out of focus one in the original frame.

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Comment posted by SandyRichardsBrown on October 8, 2011 at 11:05 PM

Love it!
Nice work with the replacement.. I can't tell at all.
Sure does look like a football face-off...HUT!

Sandy

Registered on November 24, 2003, 3937 Posts, 12909 Comments

Comment posted by Charlie Baugh on October 9, 2011 at 12:59 AM

The reason it worked so well is that the replacement was the same red DF and taken just seconds later, so I pasted in part of the fence and didn't have to do anything to the DF at all. It lined up with very slight nudging.

Charlie

Registered on April 18, 2011, 329 Posts, 1985 Comments

Comment posted by Pat Sampson on October 9, 2011 at 8:15 AM

Interesting tension in the image Charlie and I can't tell that the red one wasn't there to start with, so good processing from my standpoint.

pat

Registered on May 19, 2007, 953 Posts, 15989 Comments

Comment posted by Charlie Baugh on October 9, 2011 at 5:25 PM

Here is the original before pasting in a sharper red DF. The paste-in was very simple as I didn't cut out around the DF, but cut a rectangular portion from the sharper image and nudged the pasted-in image to fit the iron fence. There was some simple blending at the edges of the rectangular paste-in.

Registered on April 18, 2011, 329 Posts, 1985 Comments

Comment posted by Charlie Baugh on October 9, 2011 at 5:27 PM

Here is the original:

Registered on April 18, 2011, 329 Posts, 1985 Comments

Comment posted by David W. Kelly on October 10, 2011 at 9:54 AM

Looks like they are ready to fight or love? Nice image Charlie.

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Comment posted by denise ippolito on October 12, 2011 at 9:16 AM

Nice work in post processing,. I can't tell either. Love the orange DF.

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