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Pep Ventosa


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Challenge: Sound (Classic Editing)
Camera: Nikon Coolpix 995
Location: San Francisco
Date: May 31, 2003
Galleries: Nature, Animals
Date Uploaded: Jun 1, 2003

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Place: 77 out of 96
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 06/12/2003 02:08:18 PM
*Critique Club*
The lighting here is quite a bit too bright for me. I think it overpowers the flowers a bit.
I'm not sure if the lighting has anything to do with it, but the focus is also generally quite soft. I think in a close up shot like this, I'd prefer some sharp focus so that we can get a lot of detail out of it.
The background, even though blurred shows enough pattern to clash badly with the busy patterns in the flowers. I think that blurring backgrounds is very effective, but because of the strong pattern in your background, I think that it only adds to the busy-ness, rather than making the background non distracting.
The bee does blend in quite a bit with the flowers here, and I don't think that he's being particularily noisy. he's landed, and his wings are clearly not moving here. I do see how this COULD portray sound though, and when I think of bees, their buzz goes right along with.
Overall too busy for my personal taste.
~Heather~
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
06/08/2003 07:48:15 PM
Very busy image. It was hard to spot the central subject. Nice color and detail.
 06/08/2003 03:21:42 PM
You never hear this sound until it's too late. BZZT. And it's usually followed by a loud scream! Good capture - closer than I want to be to the bee.
 06/08/2003 12:21:49 PM
It's a little busy and I don't care for the frame. Nice bee though, abd a colourful shot. Lighting is a bit harsh too.
 06/06/2003 03:30:35 PM
very colorful... nice job.
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 06/04/2003 02:14:14 AM
I had to scroll my eyes over a great deal of bright and eye-catching colour before finding the bee, which doesn't help with the feel of 'sound'. A tighter focus on the bee or a less bright set of flowers or even some less bright lighting might have helped with this. The border is very distracting as is; either a solid one or none at all would have been preferable.
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 06/02/2003 04:33:50 AM
Your border is very distracting and the picture itself is very busy. The bee's wings aren't obviously moving so there's no sense of sound suggested.
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