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03/28/2003 09:19:13 PM |
Hey!
Hmm. I thought you might be suffering with a low end camera until I checked out your other shots which seem to be pretty good. I'm not sure why the quality on this one seems lacking. The focus is really soft, but it looks like you tried to sharpen it and made it worse. The lighting was pretty harsh which only exacerbates the problem.
It's a very pretty subject. I like the colors of the flower. The ground around it is rather ugly - you might try desaturating the color channels for the background and making it black and white to really downplay the bg more.
I'm not really fond of the cropping. The bottom and right side are just barely cropped and the top is severely chopped off. I would try a really close up that crops most of the petals and really focuses on the center of the flower or else try to get it all in. If you could rotate or have taken it more from the right then those 3 purple petals would make a really nice triangle.
Flower shots tend to do better in a more controlled environment (studio). You need softer, even lighting and a non distracting background. However, I think the quality issue is what really pulled the score down on this one. |
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03/22/2003 10:58:29 PM |
| Nice colors. Background would have been better out of focus while the flower could be in better focus - smaller f# if your camera can be set for aperture priority. |
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03/22/2003 09:58:23 PM |
| Beautiful flower I like the close up effect |
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03/19/2003 05:58:28 PM |
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03/18/2003 02:38:08 PM |
| Good image. Nice bright colors and image. |
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03/18/2003 02:22:15 PM |
| nice image, a little blurry though |
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03/17/2003 10:20:57 AM |
| I would like to see all of the flower. |
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03/17/2003 08:58:07 AM |
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