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"Brighten the Corner Where You Are"
"Brighten the Corner Where You Are"
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Challenge: Yellow III (Advanced Editing IV)
Camera: Minolta DiMAGE 7i
Location: Home, Front Yard
Date: Mar 31, 2006
Aperture: F/3.5
ISO: ISO-100
Shutter: 1/90
Galleries: Nature, Macro
Date Uploaded: Mar 31, 2006

Magic Wand Tool to enhance focal point, Color Adjust, Brightness & Contrast

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04/16/2006 05:11:25 PM
Greetings from the Critique Club!

Wow, what beautiful flowers! Must be nice to have some to shoot, LOL, where I am it's still too cold, LOL :)

This is a lovely idea for yellow and the color is there but it seems a bit flat and dull for the light that seems to be available. An adjustment on curves or brightness/contrast could really help bring these colors out. Even a slight adjsutment on the saturation (yellow) would really help this.

Also the overall composition seems a bit off to me the balance isn't quite there, the bud on the right is throwing the whole line off of the flowers, if you bring the crop in just a bit and take out the one bud, leaving a line from bottom to top taking me in and out of the shot.

More focus on the full blooms also might help, having a shallow DOF can work with this shot if the focus is on the main bloom.

I really like the shot overall and the idea behind it, if you do rework this at all I would love to see the results.

Hope my comments help!

Deannda
Good Luck in future Challenges
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
04/08/2006 11:23:51 AM
Good composition, but a bit flat. Needs a bit of contrast. Play with it more because it has real good potential!!
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04/03/2006 02:33:42 PM
I think the focus would have been better on the bigger blooms rather then the buds..
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