An Egg That Was Never Found..
by Beautiful-Joe

Comment by bjoern:
Good composition, but it's lacking in focus.

An Egg That Was Never Found..
by Beautiful-Joe

Comment by xodiak:
If this were in focus it'd be a really good shot. Nice use of lighting.

An Egg That Was Never Found..
by Beautiful-Joe

Comment by bloodthirstyhounds:
I really like the reflection!
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An Egg That Was Never Found..
by Beautiful-Joe

Comment by essie:
I think this might have been better in focus. I like the idea though!

My First Entry
by Beautiful-Joe

Comment by jackal9:
Hey Joe...sounds like a Hendrix song...anyway, yeah tough challenge to start out on, but you did ok. I am assuming you used the "auto" exposure setting on your camera? hence the darker foreground as the camera attempts to compensate for the extreme brightness of the sun. Just a thought here but if you position yourself a little further to the right and get the tree there to partially block the sun the camera would have a bit easier time with the exposure, ideally you should switch to manual exposure and over expose it by a step or 3, lol. But overall not too bad for a first try and I kinda like the dirt road and small clearing in the frame. Good luck!! and have fun!!

Jack

My First Entry
by Beautiful-Joe

Comment by Louis:
Not a bad first entry in my opinion. I agree with the others about the foreground being slightly less exposed than it could be, but this setup is very difficult to shoot with perfect exposure, and especially more difficult to correct within Basic rules. You could have corrected the pink spot in Photoshop by adding a Hue/Saturation adjustment layer, then taking the saturation of the Magenta colour channel down to zero. That likely would have removed the spot, and it would be legal in basic. Great attitude Joe. You'll go far having this much fun and taking it for what it is, as you do. Congratulations and welcome!

An Egg That Was Never Found..
by Beautiful-Joe

Comment by Jaye27:
blurry, takes away from the photo.

An Egg That Was Never Found..
by Beautiful-Joe

Comment by BAMartin:
Unfortunately the egg is a little out of focus. This is a great idea, and after the challenge, I would encourage you to experiment with it some more.

An Egg That Was Never Found..
by Beautiful-Joe

Comment by FireMan21:
focus,focus,focus,focus!

My First Entry
by Beautiful-Joe

Comment by noraneko:
Welcome to DPC, great start! You picked a tough challenge to cut your teeth on :-) I notice your question about getting rid of the pink (sun flare). In basic editing, you can't clone anything out, so you chose right to keep it there. In advanced editing, it would be your artistic choice.