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Life and Death - a Study in Contrast
Life and Death - a Study in Contrast
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Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Free Study VIII (Advanced Editing IV)
Camera: Canon PowerShot G3
Location: Phoenix, AZ
Date: Mar 29, 2005
Aperture: f/4.0
ISO: auto
Shutter: 1/512
Galleries: Floral
Date Uploaded: Apr 3, 2005

unsharpen mask
turn down red saturation (was overwhelming)
adjust levels towards black a little
resize
add border

Statistics
Place: 461 out of 507
Avg (all users): 4.7071
Avg (commenters): 4.7500
Avg (participants): 4.6211
Avg (non-participants): 5.0408
Views since voting: 877
Views during voting: 325
Votes: 239
Comments: 13
Favorites: 0


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 Comments Made During the Challenge
04/24/2005 10:23:49 PM
too bright in color..nice composition though 5
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04/24/2005 10:15:01 PM
The red and the green have too strong a contrast, and the flower loses detail in the light
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04/24/2005 09:31:44 PM
way too over saturated for my tastes
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04/24/2005 02:23:42 PM
digtal cameras are notorious for blowing out red highlights
this is a good example of such a blowout
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04/24/2005 02:08:09 AM
great color but a little too much sharpness
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04/22/2005 08:46:10 PM
There is something about magenta tinged reds that makes them almost impossible to reproduce both accurately and attractively either digitallly or on film.

The framing is done well. and I like the interior details of the live flower.

I'm afraid that I find the background chartreuse and the foreground magenta to clash mightily. And there edge between the two colors seems a little funky. While I understand the reason to include a live flower and a dead one, and I applaud your effort, I'm finding the visual effect to be a little gratuitously ugly.
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04/21/2005 09:56:31 PM
neat
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04/21/2005 07:50:51 PM
interesting photo. love the background and the wilted flower. but the centrasl flower has lost a lot of texture in processing
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04/20/2005 11:28:15 AM
Too much contrast if you ask me... Anyway, good image but hardly breathtaking either, gave it a 6.
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04/19/2005 05:27:15 PM
you probably know but the red is a little blown out.
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04/19/2005 01:08:47 PM
im not a fan of macro flowers shot but i admit this has something extra
nice one
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04/19/2005 12:39:56 PM
Very stark colors. There is a nice contrast between th red and green happening here.
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04/19/2005 12:08:49 PM
The red on the live flower seems a bit oversaturated to me, making the color seem unatural.
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