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Homage to Three Worlds
Homage to Three Worlds
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Challenge: Fish (Advanced Editing VII)
Camera: Pentax K-R
Location: My backyard koi pond
Date: Apr 17, 2015
Aperture: 5.6
ISO: 400
Shutter: 1/400
Date Uploaded: Apr 20, 2015

 Pentax K-R with Vivitar Series 1 28-90mm 1:2.8-3.5
Focal length ~50mm
Shutter 1/400
F/5.6
ISO 400
Editing (Apple Aperture): crop, increase black point, increase definition, increase vibrancy

Taken with MC Escher's Three Worlds in mind. Pollen on the water was a bummer, but I couldn't figure out how to edit it out in a way that is not super tedious. So I kept it in :/

Also wish I had gotten the focus better. I'm still learning how to clear up fuzzy focus in post.


Statistics
Place: 42 out of 54
Avg (all users): 4.6596
Avg (commenters): 6.0000
Avg (participants): 5.0000
Avg (non-participants): 4.4576
Views since voting: 365
Views during voting: 182
Votes: 94
Comments: 5
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 07/15/2015 12:52:24 PM
*Hello from Sid and the Critique Club*

I must admit, whilst obviously, I've heard of MC Escher I had not heard of his three worlds so I had to google it, delightful. A competent image that meets the challenge and should have scored better, It certainly doesn’t deserve all those sub fours.

I really don't think you have a problem with the focus, you have to accept that you are shooting through water which inevitably is not going to give you the same sharpness as air. At least you have managed to avoid the common problem in this situation of focussing on the waters surface which certainly would have rendered the fish soft. If you manage to come up with the magic formula in post-processing that will render unsharp images sharp then I will be delighted to hear from you.

As you rightly point out the 'pollen' on the waters surface is distracting and would benefit from removal and it may be this alone that has resulted in its lower than deserved score. I know its removal would have been tedious but I think it would have been worthwhile. Perhaps a quicker approach would have been to select these with colour range and simply subdue them thus making them much less conspicuous.

I like the dynamic shape and the dorsal fin just breaking the surface, I like its vivid colouring, I like the distorted reflections from the ripples, the reflections themselves are not too bad either, shame there weren't the leaves to complete your homage but a very good attempt I would say.

Happy fishingâ€Â¦ Sid
 05/15/2015 11:29:47 AM
Such super colours. I would have had to give this a good dose of the oil painting filter and get a DQ but it would be worth it

 Comments Made During the Challenge
04/26/2015 07:24:45 PM
gorgeous, almost crunchy.
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 04/26/2015 03:13:41 PM
Fab colours and love the ripples- they seem to frame the fish.
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 04/23/2015 03:00:30 PM
Beautiful Koi!

Commenting only because my phone won't allow voting
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