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Challenge: Flowers (Advanced Editing IV)
Camera: Canon EOS-300D Rebel
Lens: Sigma 70-300mm f/4-5.6 APO Macro Super II for Canon
Location: My front yard
Date: Jul 1, 2006
Aperture: f5.6
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/400
Galleries: Nature, Floral
Date Uploaded: Jul 1, 2006

 Shot at 7:52am in my front yard, which faces east, so it was getting the morning sun, about 2 hours and 20 minutes after sunrise. I was shooting the flowers on my Magnolia tree, when this little creature happened along. I also like the lighting on the base of the flower.

In PS CS2:
crop
resize
levels (select white point on flower)
shadow/highlight (30,60,30,30,90,30)
burned some highlights on the flower
Neat Image
USM (85,1,4)

Statistics
Place: 239 out of 375
Avg (all users): 5.2525
Avg (commenters): 5.0000
Avg (participants): 5.1549
Avg (non-participants): 5.5000
Views since voting: 880
Views during voting: 265
Votes: 198
Comments: 9
Favorites: 1 (view)

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 07/18/2006 08:19:51 PM
Gorgeous colors and I love the composition. Very nice background as well!
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 07/10/2006 12:32:02 PM
OK, it's our buddy the magnolia again. You can see how the composition changed your score. This is nicely off centered and the petals don't look quite so mangled in the center.

If you used a flash on this, I think I can see a slight blue cast to the picture. The reds of the morning sun are nice though and you chose a good time of the day to shoot. The background is nicely blurred although I would have tried to do something about the horizontal line to the left. It distracts and doesn't help the feel of the picture at all. Either remove whatever it was in composition, or clone it out in processing.

You did nicely to keep the bright petal from blowing completely. The little fly is a nice secondary subject as well.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
07/05/2006 05:06:50 PM
Great photo. Colors are really nice. Great job!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 07/05/2006 12:33:32 PM
I like the light a lot. I think though that it would benefit if the DOF were a little deeper. Just a little though.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 07/04/2006 06:01:21 AM
Good arrangment but the vacant area keeps drawing me in.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 07/04/2006 04:46:29 AM
Sorry, feels really messy to me, no one thing takes me into the picture
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 07/03/2006 10:22:54 PM
interesting flower. nice addition with the fly/wasp (whatever the heck it is! LOL) it emphasises the size of the flower well.
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 07/03/2006 12:22:14 PM
nice light
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 07/03/2006 01:57:10 AM
Good Job!
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