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I like the backlighting to highlight the banding. Looks like a face in profile, too.

That is way cool! ... and a little creepy, too, since it's kind of alienish in shape.

Indeed! Very Preditor like

Next Lesson: context
everything has an effect, nothing stands alone, even if it seems like its in nothing...



notice how choice of background affects the appearance
[and no, that is not a hole in the jade, its a pocket of clear (water) jade in the gray ice jade]

Bonus Example: Don't forget to keep things clean...
especially since your working with small stuff. and if your like me, you use the sun, and so, thats the light you get at the time you can get it.
so its a lot of fun to work and work, and not "chimp" your shots, and get it all done... relax, have a steak, a mikes lemonade... go to edit in post production and voila!

looks like a pixie with a mean streak and the worlds smallest sharpie pen went at it...

Double Bonus Whoo hoo: White balance, context, evoking, composition, selection, scale, framing, etc...

The original...


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evoking alien or foreign landscape... with sky behind..


Druzy valley, where the wee folk frolic..


Look, its mount druzy... few have scaled its millimeter peaks...

Fun lessons.