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Yellow Rose
Yellow Rose
tonyv


Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Single Light Source II (Advanced Editing IV*)
Camera: Canon EOS-300D Rebel
Lens: Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II
Location: Cape Town
Date: May 25, 2006
Aperture: f/16
ISO: 100
Shutter: 20 sec
Galleries: Still Life, Floral
Date Uploaded: May 29, 2006

 Yes I know it is YET Another Flower. I have seen these before and thought I would try it myself.

Setup:
* borrowed a rose from my daughter
* dark room with a desk lamp as light source
* covered desk lamp with translucent plastic packets to soften the light
* black poster board on the wall about two feet behind the rose
* lots of patience because of the long exposures

Postprocessing:
* Sharpened first because I wanted to try contrast masking
* Contrast mask (duplicate top pixel layer, desaturate, invert, overlay mode, Gaussian blur, adjust opacity)
* Spot edit layer to remove a couple of small imperfections on the rose
* very little dodge & burn using a soft light mode adjustment layer
* aggressive levels adjustment layer because there were almost no highlights ... I did not want to chance the yellow blowing out
* hue / saturation adjustment layer to push the yellow slightly, but masked to exclude the leaves
* adjustment layer in multiply mode to darken but masked to exclude the leaves (they aren't leaves ... are they?)
* resize image
* save for web
* upload

Guesstimated Score: 5.5 to 5.8

Statistics
Place: 53 out of 238
Avg (all users): 6.0820
Avg (commenters): 7.1429
Avg (participants): 5.9733
Avg (non-participants): 6.1271
Views since voting: 1106
Views during voting: 331
Votes: 256
Comments: 16
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AuthorThread
 06/09/2006 12:37:31 AM
Tony, hello from the Critique Club:

First of all, congratulations on a good finish with this image. You scored higher than your prediction :)

First impression: It's a beautiful rose. The stem in the background is rather distracting (as the images load top to bottom, you get to see the stem first, before seeing the rose).

Focus: Right on. No problems here.

Exposure: Again, seems just right for this image.

Lighting: Looks to be quite good, although the rose does not look yellow, but orange, and that might be due to the desk lamp light (incandescent?). A different white balance might work better in this situation. Your contrast masking probably changed the whole thing a fair bit.

Composition: Quite good again, the stem in back is not needed IMO, and the bottom leaf looks to be cut off ever so slightly. Hard to tell if not cutting it off would change the image much or not. The flower looks rather leathery, not delicate at all. The orange on black with hints of green is beautiful.

Overall: A solid, well done entry, with a good score.

Hope this helps!

~Ursula
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
06/06/2006 08:02:57 PM
I'd check the white balance in post editing, it seems that your yellows are overbearing.
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 06/06/2006 01:43:16 AM
Very nice!
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 06/05/2006 10:24:39 PM
Does the light source keep the color correct? Nice frame and background.
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 06/05/2006 07:14:47 PM
very nice...
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 06/05/2006 04:54:27 AM
Now thats impressive, great work, 10
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 06/05/2006 04:32:43 AM
best of my second places
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 06/03/2006 10:41:27 PM
Another magical flower shot......I love this and give you a "10".....
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 06/03/2006 09:50:07 PM
Very nice lighting. The yellow and green look a bit off to me probably due to the type of lighting you used or white balance. If that was intentional then just forget I just said that. :) Either way it gets a 7.
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 06/03/2006 04:08:09 PM
good light source...7
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 06/03/2006 12:29:25 PM
The lighting tends to contradict your title as the rose looks a bit orange toned. Nice sharp focus. Good composition
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 06/02/2006 02:57:54 PM
I really like the lighting
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 06/01/2006 12:46:45 AM
I love the detail in this shot, nice job
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 05/31/2006 06:58:57 PM
very nice... maybe since this is advanced editing, you could have played around with getting rid of the back leaf and cropping the pic lower so as to not cut off the bottom leaf.... fantastic photo! 8
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 05/31/2006 04:38:25 PM
Nice, but would have loved to see more yellow come out. I like the texture on the leaves, they kind of look fuzzy.
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 05/31/2006 03:15:25 PM
Beautiful!
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