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May, week three:
While driving around the local countryside I noticed some longhorn cattle. Since this is Virginia, it caught my attention. I quick snapped a few shots, although I was really wishing for a longer lens that would allow me a close-up portrait.

Here I tried fiddling with the complex black and white conversion parameters in PSE-CS3. I don't know if I made the best choices, but it was a good learning experience. I'm a little fascinated with assymetric borders at the moment, as you may notice. I think I need to add "rural" as another goal for my project. Otherwise, the only thing this picture fits is wildlife. Sort of fits landscape, too.

Image details:
Date and location: 5/26/7 at 15:41 EDT, Hwy 22 outside Charlottesville, VA
Equipment: Canon 30D, 17-85mm IS lens, Hoya SMC UV filter
Settings: 83mm, handheld with IS, ISO 100, f/8.0, 1/200 sec, shot in raw
Processing: cataloged in Aperture v1.5.3 -> export as .jpg to PSE-CS3 -> black and white (100, 0, 40, 110, 110, 110) -> levels (20, 1.15, 255) -> contrast +10 -> crop -> resize -> USM (150%, 0.5, 0) -> border + text -> save as .jpg
Photo-a-week goals addressed: #1 (b+w), #17 (wildlife), #18 (rural)