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Challenge: Minimalism (Basic Editing III)
Camera: Sony DSC-V1
Location: Office in Hollywood, CA
Date: Apr 26, 2005
Aperture: 5.6
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/250
Galleries: Still Life, Floral
Date Uploaded: Apr 26, 2005

I fear that this is not a very original take on the challenge. However, I liked playing with a stark image, which is not my normal style.

I walked around the grounds near my office and picked a few flowers and brought them back to my office. The building across from me was just reroofed with some sort of white reflective material, creating an ideal bounceboard for diffuse lighting. I set up a large piece of white paper to make an cyclorama and shot about 30 different ways with different exposures and framing.

Adjustments made (in order) were cropping, noise reduction, curves, contrast, resizing, unsharp mask.

(dsc01925)

Statistics
Place: 50 out of 492
Avg (all users): 6.0546
Avg (commenters): 6.8800
Avg (participants): 5.8602
Avg (non-participants): 6.2556
Views since voting: 1440
Views during voting: 483
Votes: 366
Comments: 29
Favorites: 1 (view)


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05/04/2005 08:42:35 AM
From Critique Club:

beckttboots

Over all image impact is excellent, the use of negative space, and color make this a very interesting image. The lighting was well set and almost no shadows. The strong offset placement of the flower adds impact to the image. I feel this should have placed much higher than it did. The fact you used what you had on hand for lighting and background only make this a more impressive image.

As with any image, one could find fault with some part of it, if you look hard enough. I have only one thing to add, and that is you could have made the flower maybe just a tad darker, not much, just a bit. Having said that I still think this is a good strong image.

It would seem that I am in the minority, seeing how this placed in the challenge. That is what makes art, art. Just because this placed low in the challenge does not lessen the quality if the image.

Well done, keep up the good work
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
05/03/2005 07:01:01 PM
Im tired of flower pictures but you get points for knowing the name of the species.
05/02/2005 06:03:22 AM
good one
liked the softness
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05/01/2005 09:33:42 AM
There is some technical problem here I believe....the image is not clear. I also feel the photo lacks any voice that would push it beyond being a snap shot. Nothing makes it stand out amoung other images in challenge.
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04/30/2005 10:50:24 PM
pretty. cool name too.
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04/30/2005 07:30:02 PM
Very nice! Thumb nail doesn't do it justice. Washes it out a bit IMO. 9
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04/30/2005 02:32:37 AM
Very pretty.
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04/29/2005 11:11:33 PM
Excellent composition; only a slight vignetting on upper left (at least on my monitor). Delicate and simple. 8
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04/29/2005 10:26:19 PM
lovely soft feel to this shot
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04/29/2005 07:27:46 PM
Simply great, I love this one.
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04/29/2005 04:13:01 PM
this is great. There was another shot like this, and pretty much all the comments I gave to that person to try, you did. I love the high key look here. Well done, my favorite thus far, its going on my favorites as well. Good luck with the challenge. My first 10.
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04/29/2005 02:22:18 PM
SPOT ON very good comp. and lighting looks good almost no shadwos well done
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04/29/2005 12:43:41 PM
Very nice shot! This is one of my favorites that I have seen so far. I like the color a lot and find the composition to be quite nice. I wouldn’t change a thing.
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04/29/2005 10:30:47 AM
blacks barely in, whites ok, nice lines, nice color, nice comp,
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04/29/2005 09:52:36 AM
Veyr pretty; very white but very pretty. parts of the flower look like they may be slightly overexposed but an overall great shot. Captured theme. High score
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04/29/2005 03:21:05 AM
Excellent composition...very simple and beautiful. 8
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04/29/2005 02:26:05 AM
aw, love the colours in the flower, so serene and clean this .. :)
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04/29/2005 12:12:09 AM
beautiful shot
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04/28/2005 05:37:18 PM
beautiful flower! i love the color and you captured it so well. good job
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04/28/2005 04:53:22 PM
Nice, would make a great negative space photo. 9
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04/28/2005 02:34:06 PM
This works well
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04/28/2005 07:53:39 AM
well done. great lighting.nice background. very nice.
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04/27/2005 09:26:58 PM
love this shot
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04/27/2005 07:30:32 PM
Meets the challenge, however the appearance of the flower does not attract me.
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04/27/2005 03:24:10 PM
simple
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04/27/2005 02:03:40 PM
Beautifully captured and is definitely minimalism. If I have any complaint it's that it's too minimalist, but I can hardly fault you for that!
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04/27/2005 12:18:44 PM
Nice simple composition which works well to fit the challenge 9
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04/27/2005 10:51:44 AM
Good execution and colours. But there is no spark in it... Good luck!
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