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Challenge: Burst of Color (Advanced Editing IV)
Camera: Olympus D-600L
Location: side of the street
Date: Jan 7, 2006
Galleries: Food and Drink
Date Uploaded: Jan 7, 2006

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Statistics
Place: 236 out of 244
Avg (all users): 3.8957
Avg (commenters): 5.1667
Avg (participants): 3.7963
Avg (non-participants): 3.9836
Views since voting: 1572
Views during voting: 287
Votes: 230
Comments: 8
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01/19/2006 02:31:28 AM
::: Critique Club ::: ladyhawk22

First Impression - the most important one: Good composition, but it looks overexposed....causing the colors to be muted.

Composition: Composition for this image is good! The pumpkin is well placed and I like the leaves as a background.

Subject: The pumpkin was a nice choice in subject, especially as the colors would compliment the leaves well. A fresher pumpkin might go over a tad better, but I wouldn't call it a bad choice by any means!

Technical (Colour, focus, and light): The colors in this photo suffer a bit because of overexposure. For this challenge especially, the colors really need to pop off the screen in order to catch the voter's attention. Try reducing the exposure to get more accurate colors. Adding a little bit of saturation to the pumpkin would be a good move too. Focus looks alright, though it might be interesting to use a shallower depth of field (smaller aperture) to blur the leaves in the background a bit.

To grow its vote?: I think the overexposure is what hurt this image the most. A little bit of overexposure can sometimes be fixed using a Levels adjustment and/or adjusting the Contrast/Brightness.

Summary: Good composition on this photo! With a little more attention to the exposure settings it would come out really nicely.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
01/15/2006 01:27:15 AM
Just a little overexposed.
01/14/2006 04:03:28 PM
Nice... I love rotting vegetables. (Maybe a little contrasty?)
01/14/2006 04:34:55 AM
Good idea, but the pumpkin really does't stand out from the background.
01/13/2006 01:10:36 AM
Nice composition and textures in this shot. However, it seems the WB or color saturation is a tad off IMHO.
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01/12/2006 11:29:13 AM
instead of a different color, it's a more saturated color that stands out. I like that.
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01/12/2006 05:39:43 AM
Classy image.....
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01/10/2006 04:54:28 PM
The leaves are kind of "busy" - it may have been better to use a shallower depth of field to get part of the pumpkin sharp and let the leaves blur a little.
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