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Periwinkle dreams
Periwinkle dreams
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Challenge: Fantasy World (Advanced Editing IV)
Camera: Fujifilm FinePix S3000
Location: Longniddry Bents, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Date: Jun 19, 2005
Aperture: f2.8
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/60
Galleries: Nature, Animals
Date Uploaded: Jun 19, 2005

Cloned a bit of seaweed out at left.
Burned and added more blur to background.
Curves/levels/Hue sat/USM
Top layer quadtoned image.
Holes erased through it to let some colour through..especially yellow barnacles

Statistics
Place: 39 out of 151
Avg (all users): 5.7982
Avg (commenters): 7.0000
Avg (participants): 5.5114
Avg (non-participants): 5.9786
Views since voting: 839
Views during voting: 388
Votes: 228
Comments: 11
Favorites: 0


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 Comments Made During the Challenge
06/26/2005 10:14:46 PM
A good effort and an interesting subject, it just isn't as captivating as other photos in this challenge - 5
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06/26/2005 08:41:57 PM
An impressive entry.
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06/26/2005 09:06:01 AM
Depth of focus and tones are beautiful..great shot.
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06/25/2005 12:15:04 AM
8
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06/24/2005 01:06:39 PM
Decent attempt to create a fantasy from the natural worled. The muted color and grey tones add interest to the composition. Good use of the rule of thirds. The use of shallow depth of field here to highlight the rock is fine.

Some viewers will be confused because they will think this should be vinca minor which is a type of periwinkle ground cover commonly found in yards and gardens. This is not that. You might be to far "out of the box" for some folk's with your title.

On the technical side this image has a touch of a problem very common in my own images. It is related to focus where there is a lot of fine detail. It gives the image a kind of granulated out of focus look when the image is higher contrast such as this one. Wish there was a technique that I could suggest to fix that but it will contribute to a slightly lower score.
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06/22/2005 05:04:07 AM
crop left hand 1/3 ?
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06/21/2005 09:55:30 PM
Base Score 6
Great Color/Comp/Proc +2
Total Score 7

Nice shot...Very crisp and well composed...
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06/20/2005 04:00:31 PM
I like the rich tones of this photo
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06/20/2005 11:34:45 AM
oh - I love it - one could construct all sorts of stories around this image - Quick, get on the rock!
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06/20/2005 10:42:06 AM
This is a great shot. Good luck!
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06/20/2005 04:26:00 AM
I was thinking what does a periwinkle (shrub/flower) have to do with this picture, so I went and looked it up in the dictionary and found out that it was snails as well. So thanks for improving my knowledge with this photo. Intriguing rock textures with the snails add to the interest of the picture. If the right hand side of the rock didn't lead off the photo, this would score much higher. 6
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