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Challenge: Life IV (Basic Editing)
Camera: Samsung L210
Date: Dec 6, 2010
Aperture: 2.8
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/45
Date Uploaded: Dec 6, 2010

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Statistics
Place: 60 out of 65
Avg (all users): 2.9540
Avg (commenters): 2.8333
Avg (participants): 2.8667
Avg (non-participants): 2.9722
Views since voting: 667
Views during voting: 283
Votes: 174
Comments: 14
Favorites: 0


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12/14/2010 10:24:46 PM
the focus work here needs some improvement.
12/14/2010 07:56:27 PM
Could have done so much better
12/13/2010 04:46:58 PM
Perhaps, life is what happens when we're focussed on something else. Like your style.
12/13/2010 10:36:30 AM
The flower has a lovely form, and the implied diagonal of dark negative space shapes are good, but the very bright light presents a difficult techincal challenge. Having black shadows with no detail at the same time as white flowers blown out with no detail tells us that the dynaimc range here exceeds what a digital or file camera can capture in a single shot. This requires either combining multiple images at different exposures (to compress the exposure range -read up on HDR, which can't be done in basic edit rules), or using manual settings to eliminate even more of the dark range, or on camera filters to help with that, or setting up something to shade the flowers, or using a dark cloth or different positioning or picking the rose (to remove the white flowers from view and isolate the rose) - anything to compress the dynamic range. Reducing exposure might have helped reduce that harsh color band on the petal edge (saturated red can be overexposed even when the camera's light meter thinks things are ok), and could have improved the white flowers if kept in the image. Looks like autofocus got hold of the leaf behind the rose (which may have some motion blur too), leaving the rose itself a blurry mess. Would have been much stronger with the main flower in focus. Consider using manual focus and a tripod and faster shutter speed, or whatever other technical control your camera allows for you to select where focus will happen and produce an image with exposure and sharpness worthy of your subject. Would predict a low score but a good learning opportunity.
12/13/2010 10:18:34 AM
good colour but not in focus
12/13/2010 03:29:28 AM
I think the lack of focus and saturation hurts this shot. The lighting appears harsh. A tripod and a softer light source would help this.
12/10/2010 04:12:01 PM
Now if you had entered this into the motion blur challenge, it would have still gotten creamed by most voters, but at least I would have given you a high vote for entering a focus blur shot into the motion blur challenge.
12/10/2010 01:01:21 PM
To me it seems all out of focus
12/10/2010 06:13:27 AM
Poor focus I'm afraid...
12/09/2010 09:06:04 PM
not voting
12/08/2010 09:18:23 PM
wrong focus (on leaf to left of center rose), center rose is overexposed, baby's breath is blown out, crop of roses at left is less than pleasing. I suggest (if you can) to experiment with rose bouquets - you see the beauty, and with some practice you can capture it well.
12/08/2010 02:01:02 PM
Holy wow! This is seriously out of focus.. You seem to have focused about six inches behind your intended subject..

Back up and crop the image some, it'll look much better!
12/08/2010 12:58:13 AM
pity the rose is not in focus it looks as if you are too close for the camera to focus 5
12/08/2010 12:27:07 AM
totally out of focus... :(


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