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05/16/2003 09:06:12 AM |
Critique Club:
Hi Todd. This was one of my favourites in the postcard challenge and I was very astonished to see it way back at place 52. You postcard turned out beautifully and is exactly the kind of card I see in postcard stands everywhere.
The digital art aspect of your submission is the reason it was placed so far down the line. For some reason digital art doesn't come over too well with the majority of DPC voters, even if it is a fine work of art like this is.
Thank you for posting your original shot of the flowers as well as the steps you took in the post processing phase. This not only works as a kind of tutorial, but also shows me the amount of thought and fine tuning you put into your postcard.
To the photo itself, the color combinations are amazing (could also be a good secondary color challenge submission). Your choice of backfround, border and lettering couldn't have been better. This image is a pleasure to look at. Congratulations on an excellent submission which was unfortunately extremely underrated.
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05/13/2003 11:13:42 PM |
| Thanks Tarbini! Great idea using that glass background and sort of flattening the poppies a little... it makes the final image really look great! |
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05/13/2003 07:13:46 PM |
Thanks for the comments. I will still submit the "digital art" types of entries. I really liked this one. I do understand that it blurs "digital art" and photography.
However, The shot was taken during the challenge week and all rules were followed.
I arranged the poppies on a glass candle holder, sprinkled with water and took a few shots with different exposures and metering.
The PS7 steps I took are with the submission.
Chris- here is the original image:
//www.dpchallenge.com/image.php?IMAGE_ID=21428 |
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05/12/2003 10:31:27 PM |
| I also agree that this one should have done better. I'd love to see the original image. If the original is really an image of real poppies, this is amazing given the rules. |
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05/12/2003 08:20:39 PM |
| Have to agree with kiwiness. I've only looked at the thumbnails of most entries to this challenge, but this one sure stood out. Personally I can't understand this discrimination against digital art. |
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05/12/2003 03:33:38 AM |
| What's this doing way back here? This postcard is far too good for place 52! |
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05/11/2003 02:59:38 PM |
| Maybe the best color of the recent poppy photos...looks postcard-like for sure. |
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05/10/2003 12:43:58 PM |
| Lovely to look at - I really like the colors. It looks partially submerged in water or ice - what is it? Inventive but odd. |
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05/09/2003 03:31:43 PM |
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05/09/2003 09:45:30 AM |
| Some may see this as "digital art" rather than "photography," but I LOVE this! You make the poppy both engaging and mysterious! 10 |
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05/08/2003 11:23:42 PM |
| I really love how you did this. A beautiful botanic!! Good postcard! |
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05/08/2003 12:10:09 PM |
| Weird effect you got, but it's beautiful. It doesn't look like a phograph any more. You must have used a lot of filters or something? The result is really interesting. I'd buy this postcard! |
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05/08/2003 05:16:33 AM |
| Nice job with this one. NOT a landscape for once. I think this is really well done and a really unusual effect used for this. Great work -9 |
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05/07/2003 10:19:23 PM |
| Well composed. Border and lettering support the image well. |
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05/07/2003 08:27:45 PM |
| An absolutely stunning work! This as professional as anything I have seen on DPC in the past twelve months. Quit your day job...pursue this field. 10 JEM |
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05/07/2003 03:29:09 PM |
| The distortions to the image are kind of precious, in a way that annoys me slightly, and worse than that, in a way that's not very postcardy. It *is* pretty, though. If you'd just not messed with it I'd probably have marked it 10. |
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05/07/2003 01:39:31 PM |
| Is this a picture or a drawing? Whatever it is, it's really nice but I think this falls under digital art. |
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05/07/2003 10:38:18 AM |
| Very nice. My favourite flower. Good subject for a postcard. Well done. |
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05/06/2003 08:02:14 PM |
| Interesting effect. Nice colours too. Jacko. |
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05/05/2003 06:35:01 PM |
| Very nice. Did you create this effect, or is it a shot of an existing picture? I really like the border's color and text. |
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05/05/2003 08:35:27 AM |
| This is a rather nice work of art... Whatever post processing that has been done to it makes it look more like art than photography. I find this one difficult to judge as 'photography' because of that... it sorta crosses the line between photography and digital art for me... |
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05/05/2003 07:44:53 AM |
| This is a very good postcard, the color combinations are amazing - 9. |
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05/05/2003 12:35:03 AM |
| I'm not sure how you achieved this effect without an image altering filter, but this looks fabulous. Looks just like a post card, The colors are awesome together. well done. |
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