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Tropical banana leaf
Tropical banana leaf
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Challenge: Flora (Classic Editing)
Camera: Canon PowerShot S30
Location: Outside
Date: Apr 18, 2003
Aperture: F/4
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/320 sec.
Galleries: Nature, Macro
Date Uploaded: Apr 20, 2003

For lack of better entry and since I just ran out of time and ideas here's my entry for the flora challenge. It's a macro of a banana leaf being lit by the sun. There are many imperfections in the leaf I wish I could fix.

Rotated and cropped in Photoshop.

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04/30/2003 03:52:05 PM
CC: A fantastic subject choice. Great framing to get this close. Wonderful lighting. Need to find a better/ less scrappy looking leaf though. This has wonderful potential if you can find the perfect subject with the same lighting. Also, I wonder if framing the spine not quite on the main diagonal would be more effective so that the shot has a 1/3rd one side/ 2/3rds the other side arrangement, rather than perfectly split the way you currently have it. Great ideas.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
04/26/2003 07:48:52 AM
Cool. I like the little touch of the brown blemishes. It would be boring without them. The colours and textures are nice. Overall it's a little bit boring though.
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04/25/2003 10:50:55 PM
This is truly an unbelievable shot - great concept, focus - however, I am torn because I want to say it would be better without the imperfections in the leaf itself - but I believe it actually adds to the photo to showing it is real and natural. Great job and good luck in the challenge:)
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04/25/2003 09:57:16 AM
Choice capture, that green with the light shining through looks amazing! The angle you chose is very effective.
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04/25/2003 04:36:51 AM
This would've been really cool if you could've gotten an umblemished one, for the sake of being photogenic. The textures and colors are all well portrayed in this picture.
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04/24/2003 10:12:21 AM
Nice, but the leaf imperfections spoil its symmetry.
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04/24/2003 12:47:18 AM
a really cool idea.. great techinical work too....but the damage to the leaf really takes away from it
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04/23/2003 07:41:53 PM
i like the strong diagonal.. .the backlighting highlights the detail nicely... - setzler
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04/22/2003 12:59:39 PM
I like the texture of this photograph
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04/22/2003 11:00:06 AM
This is really a nice shot. The light, and color are wonderful as is the composition. I have one small negative remark. It's the dings in the leaf. In photography a flaw that is natural, -normal or small --- becomes HUGE. It's right where the eye lands.
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04/22/2003 07:23:29 AM
Very nice lines. Super colour. Jacko. 8
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04/22/2003 03:02:17 AM
Beautiful lines and great lighting for this image. Nice detail and sharpness, too. The brown spots (although) natural are pretty distracting since they are in such contrast in many ways to the leaf.
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04/21/2003 09:18:02 PM
I love the detail in this photo... very nice macro. Good composition, and I'm glad you didn't pick a perfect leaf as those little blemishes add to the photo. Very nicely done.
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04/21/2003 04:37:19 PM
This is a wondrful macro, but I feel that it would be much stronger if you had found a perfect leaf. The little flaws etract from it a lot , at least for me. 6
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04/21/2003 11:15:26 AM
Nice capture.
04/21/2003 07:10:49 AM
Backlighting helps this leaf come to life. Nice use of line and texture, too.
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