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Challenge: Clichés (Classic Editing)
Camera: Sony DSC-F717
Location: My Kitchen in Lexington, Ky
Date: Jan 30, 2003
Aperture: 8
ISO: 100
Shutter: 2 secs
Galleries: Still Life, Macro
Date Uploaded: Jan 30, 2003

 Taken in my kitchen. Brought home some flowers from the grocery and took pictures. Used overhead light and placed them in a paper bag for background. Used PSEII to crop, turn up levels, and sharpen. Used Neat Image to clean up some noise around the paper bag area.

Statistics
Place: 14 out of 246
Avg (all users): 6.5759
Avg (commenters): 7.0909
Avg (participants): 6.5086
Avg (non-participants): 6.6800
Views since voting: 1591
Votes: 191
Comments: 23
Favorites: 2 (view)

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 02/14/2003 05:33:45 AM
Greetings from the Critique Club
By Inspzil

Composition - Nicely arrange flowers for this shot. They didn't have anything more colorful? :) Brilliant colors, jumping off the page but not oversaturated. The green buds on the left side are my only complaint about the picture itself. I'm not so sure about the border but the image is a whole is very very strong except for the flower buds on the left. Not much else to say but well done!

Photography - If there was a camera just made for taking still shots with strong colors, you have it. Good crisp image.

Processing - Looks good. Color is strong but not too strong. I think cropping the buds on the left would've helped this picture possibly into a ribbon. Also good

Overall - Good good good good good pic. I don't know what else to say. Its hard for someone like me to be of much help on a pic like this. As I said many times before, crop the buds out of the left, and lose the border and you might've had yourself a ribbon. Very well taken pic. I can't believe you took the pic in a shopping bag to be honest though. Nice Job! - Bob
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
02/09/2003 08:51:30 PM
nice subject. good job.
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 02/09/2003 12:49:55 PM
This is a really great flower photo, but the bright red border is distracting. 9
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 02/08/2003 01:41:37 PM
your border is a little intrusive
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 02/08/2003 01:37:31 PM
Composition: I like the green thing in the bottom left, but I would be very tempted to crop it out and make the flowers more central.
Technical: Excellent focus and colour. I really like the border too, although it seems to have a different width on each edge?
Overall impression: Lacking slightly on the above for me personally but excellent technically. 8
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 02/07/2003 10:45:15 PM
weirdly UN-even thickness of inner border distracted me, and it's takes a whole lot of distracting to pull attention away from the purty flowers 8-1=7
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 02/06/2003 05:13:45 PM
Beuatiful colors and nice and crisp. My eye is drawn off the subject by the green bud on the left, to me this is distracting.
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 02/06/2003 12:50:44 PM
excellent color I like this one--10
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 02/06/2003 12:17:32 PM
very nice!
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 02/06/2003 09:37:36 AM
really nice
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 02/06/2003 01:19:29 AM
Excellent color and clarity. This photo is just beautiful. My only nit is the border, probably one of those love it or hate it things. I'm afraid I'm on the hate it side. - 7
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 02/05/2003 03:59:42 PM
Nice vivid colours. Looks a bit over sharpened.
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 02/05/2003 12:28:36 PM
Red frame's definitely got to go. Nice focus and colours
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 02/05/2003 11:57:16 AM
Beautiful! Maybe not cropped so closely on the right and bottom but beautiful just the same. The color saturation is amazing as is the DOF. Good job
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 02/05/2003 09:07:25 AM
wow.. an excellent job with the exposure on this shot for sure.. the colors are brilliant :) = 10 - setzler
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 02/05/2003 02:01:08 AM
Beautiful flowers, well lit and very sharp!
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 02/04/2003 11:28:16 PM
I love the vibrant colours!
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 02/04/2003 08:00:03 PM
wo, that is one pretty bunch of flower. Exquisit colours. Good job. Jacko. 9
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 02/04/2003 02:04:24 PM
This is such a beautiful photograph, and I hope you don't get me wrong, everything about the photograph is right. The only reason I am removing 1 point is the border. It's just wrong, and I hate saying it, but the border is so distracting and takes away so much from an otherwise perfect photo! 9 -Annida
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 02/04/2003 01:58:47 PM
In my opinion the brightly colored border detracts from the picture.
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 02/04/2003 12:34:05 PM
Beautiful shot. The colours are stunning.
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 02/04/2003 07:01:24 AM
The red border clashes a bit with the subject, but a very good picture inside.
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 02/03/2003 04:07:13 PM
Very nice....
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