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Picking Flowers for Mommy
Picking Flowers for Mommy
christie3


Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Family (Advanced Editing IV)
Camera: Canon EOS-300D Rebel
Lens: Sigma 28-80mm f/3.5-5.6 Aspherical for Canon (Black)
Location: Colton, OR
Date: Jul 10, 2005
Aperture: 7.1
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/160
Galleries: Candid, Black and White
Date Uploaded: Jul 10, 2005

 My two littlest sisters out picking flowers in our backyard/field behind our house. (It's really too big and overgrown to call a "yard," but w/e...)
Not expecting it to do too well, but I've been trying to submit to at least one challenge a week lately, and sports just didn't inspire me.

PP:
cropped, converted to b&w, upped contrast a tad, added unsharp mask.

Statistics
Place: 19 out of 159
Avg (all users): 6.0909
Avg (commenters): 7.2500
Avg (participants): 5.7614
Avg (non-participants): 6.2667
Views since voting: 2072
Views during voting: 367
Votes: 253
Comments: 38
Favorites: 5 (view)

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 04/06/2007 11:51:30 PM
Great shot in black and white, I agree with previous comment on the 60's feel, very Woodstock for me, I LOVE IT. Great capture!!!
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 09/09/2006 10:00:10 PM
Great DOF. This goes to show that the foreground doesn't always have to be in sharp focus. Good choice with B & W as well.
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 07/23/2006 03:42:22 AM
very alice in wonderland type of image
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 10/04/2005 11:43:32 PM
This is such an awesome shot. Gives me like a 60's feel with their dresses and long down hair. I just love it. I would love to have this on my wall.
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 07/31/2005 12:29:44 AM
Thanks for the comment and ideas!

Message edited by author 2006-07-15 15:14:02.
 07/31/2005 12:25:17 AM
Nice yard, when I grow up and have a home I'm going to plan dandelions everywhere because I like them. I hope they spread to my neighbours lawn and then they get mad. I will then paint my house in a rainbow of different colors but put hidden messages in it only I can find and chuckle to myself about.
Oh yes, your picture...
Ever try a tritone? I can see this as a nice goldeny or even pinkish one, it would give it more of an edge over normal black and white. I also would like to see the little girls not so center, if they were more to the side then they would have better impact and pop out more against such a huge field of lovely overgrowness.
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 07/18/2005 12:58:47 AM
Congratulations on your top twenty finish with this sweet and tender image.
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 07/18/2005 12:24:39 AM
OMG wow I never thought I'd get 19th place...I am sooo so happy, thanks so much everyone! :)
 Comments Made During the Challenge
07/17/2005 01:32:19 AM
I'm OK with B&W for a flowery field, but I think I'd increase the contrast a little in the darker midtones.
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 07/16/2005 05:09:10 PM
Just a bit more negative space at top, and a little less from bottom... still a great 9
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 07/15/2005 07:09:31 AM
oh wow... this is gorgeous.... should be in an art gallery... well done... 9
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 07/14/2005 03:19:16 PM
Good b&w and lovely image. Not sure though if the blurred forground makes it better.
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 07/14/2005 12:07:54 PM
liked t have seen this in colour nice picture
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 07/13/2005 10:48:08 PM
Great compositon. Black and white was a good choice. Very sweet.
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 07/13/2005 10:58:13 AM
black and white is great, but if is was color it would bring out more hapiness i think
still a good shot.
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 07/13/2005 03:09:49 AM
9
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 07/13/2005 01:21:45 AM
this ought to be in color
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 07/12/2005 08:17:46 PM
I love the idea and composition of this one.....I am a huge fan of black and white, but wonder how this one would have looked in color?
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 07/12/2005 02:53:34 PM
Ah, a classic Hallmark Card picture :) Good focus and choice of centering.
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 07/12/2005 02:50:59 PM
Nice shot, but it doesnt say family to me. If the challenge would have been sisterhood I would have voted it high.
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 07/12/2005 02:12:30 PM
Fit to challenge criteria: 2 /2
Contrast/Colors: 2/2
Photo Quality: 2/2
Composition: 2/2
My subjective affinity: 1/2
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 07/12/2005 01:51:14 PM
This is great. I love it.
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 07/12/2005 01:06:07 AM
Beautiful. That is all I can say. I love it!!!
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 07/11/2005 07:58:49 PM
Excellent use of DOF.
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 07/11/2005 05:18:33 PM
10 love it
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 07/11/2005 04:31:07 PM
perfect DOF, and great sense of movement
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 07/11/2005 02:43:33 PM
Nice photo of two children in the field. I think the bottom could have been cropped closer to get rid of the OOF portion. Other than your title there is nothing that connects this, for me anyway, to family. Just two kids in a field. It is not even clear, without close scutiny, that either one is picking flowers let alone picking flowers for mommy. Perhaps if mommy was in the shot it would help.
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 07/11/2005 01:37:11 PM
for some reason I think this would do better in a panoramic landscape format. Anyhow, this is one of my top picks in this challenge. good luck
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 07/11/2005 12:52:21 PM
Lovely idea. I wish the girls were seperated a bit so both were shown fully. Also I would suggest cropping the bottom (OOF) portion of the image.
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 07/11/2005 12:27:57 PM
I love the fact that it's not in colour. also the fact that the blurred flowers lead your eyes to the girls and they in turn lead you to the end of the picture. nicely done
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 07/11/2005 10:52:35 AM
Very sweet! I would like to see this in color. Nice capture!
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 07/11/2005 09:20:55 AM
bit less forground and more background I think and it they where just a bit more to the left then it would have been perfect.
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 07/11/2005 07:01:58 AM
Beautiful. b/w treatment is great here.
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 07/11/2005 03:59:55 AM
Nice shot. Well done, but I would have liked to see it in color, I think. 8
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 07/11/2005 03:07:45 AM
I like the idea -but would have like to see at least part of the faces on this little ones.
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 07/11/2005 01:31:51 AM
This is a classic! Great leading lines with the focus, and It HAD BETTER be framed in your house! JK! Wonderful!
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 07/11/2005 01:27:01 AM
perfect!!
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 07/11/2005 01:07:37 AM
Nice! I wish it wre not cropped so thin. Maybe lose a tad of the foreground for my taste.
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