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Challenge: Zen Photography (Advanced Editing IV)
Camera: Canon EOS-300D Rebel
Lens: Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6
Location: Home
Date: Jul 30, 2006
Aperture: 5.6
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/60th
Galleries: Nature, Still Life
Date Uploaded: Jul 30, 2006

 A thorn twig from my rose garden, couple of water droplets. background is my monitor.

Definately inspired by Bear_Music's Self Portrait III photo. His colors are much better. This cyan is probably not a good choice of a background. =/ Too late, 5 minutes left to submit!

Statistics
Place: 272 out of 329
Avg (all users): 4.9545
Avg (commenters): 5.4000
Avg (participants): 4.9192
Avg (non-participants): 4.9899
Views since voting: 531
Views during voting: 280
Votes: 198
Comments: 6
Favorites: 0

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 08/10/2006 01:28:08 AM
Greetings from the Critique Club

Hi Jason,

I agree with Enzo (hotpasta) below that this image does have a zen quality through it's simplicity. Not sure if all the voters agreed, but you don't seem to have bene too badly hit by the DNMC challenge crowd.

Regarding composition. Is it as I have said nice and simple. I think you would have done well to further simplify it by removing the OOF twig in the background, or at least making sure that it did not overlap with the thorns. Unfortunately this prevents the thorns from standing out in crisp focus, and really drawing the eye in. The background is not the best choice (as you yourself have indicated). I think a simple shot like this calls for a simple background, probably either black or white.

Regarding technical details. These are very good. Personally I would have liked to see a great depth of focus with more of the lower left twig in focus. The thorns and water-droplets definitely should 'pop' out in focus and contrast - which I don't think they do (although this may be a factor of the background).

I hope my comments help and Good Luck in future Challenges!

Cheers
Paul
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
08/01/2006 10:31:30 PM
do not look too long upon
the rose that is not there. 7
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 08/01/2006 09:55:35 PM
The DoF is good. I'm too sure about the bg green though, feels a bit sickly (just my opinion, mind, I think a desat may have lifted it somewhat) and the thorns lend an overall sense of threat, rather than Zen, to the image.
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 08/01/2006 06:43:16 PM
The DOF in the lower left is off putting, I think because you can also see the end of the stick and to me this image doesn't say Zen (MHO)
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 07/31/2006 06:26:15 AM
nice dof and colour...I like the composition...I guess the ZEN part is the simplicity and this shot has that element
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