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Cloudy Sunset
Cloudy Sunset
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Challenge: Soft Focus II (Basic Editing III)
Camera: Fujifilm FinePix S5500 Zoom
Location: Street
Date: Aug 19, 2006
Aperture: 2.8
ISO: 64
Shutter: 1/15
Galleries: Landscape, Nature
Date Uploaded: Aug 17, 2006

Photographed with Soft Focus Filter.
Cropped
Reduced Size
Adjusted Exposure
Gaussian Blur
Enriched color
Added Border

Statistics
Place: 235 out of 252
Avg (all users): 3.8458
Avg (commenters): 3.0769
Avg (participants): 3.4714
Avg (non-participants): 4.0127
Views since voting: 656
Views during voting: 316
Votes: 227
Comments: 16
Favorites: 0


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09/04/2006 09:14:25 PM
Critique Club Review:

Too soft a focus I'm afraid. I see potential here, the colors are very interesting, almost abstract. The branch of the palm, especially in soft focus, doesn't frame the photo, it almost cuts the abstract colors in two, like a dagger to the heart of your picture. Unfortunately there is also too many angles and objects sticking up along the structures in the lower left. Had you found a horizion a bit smoother, like rolling dunes, or buildings with fewer angles and vegetation, this picture could concentrate more on the play of the colors, which is what I think you may have been aiming for.
 Comments Made During the Challenge
08/28/2006 12:54:17 AM
Out of focus
08/26/2006 09:34:49 AM
too out of focus my friend ;o)
08/25/2006 12:20:54 AM
Soft focus is designed to leave important details clearly evident, but to soften context and unimportant details. You've gone too far, IMO, to really meet the challenge.
08/24/2006 06:59:32 PM
IMHO I like the colours you have in this shot and it looks like the silhoutte would be nice but for me, this is too blurred and not what I would call soft focus
08/24/2006 09:00:04 AM
colors seem over processed and it doesn't look like soft focus to me ... looks more like a blurry picture
08/24/2006 03:34:53 AM
Great color, perhaps a little too soft?
08/23/2006 09:37:43 PM
This looks out-of-focus and not soft-focus.
08/23/2006 08:08:16 PM
Is this "soft focus" or blurry? Colors are nice.
08/23/2006 05:53:44 PM
soft focus don´t mean the lack of focus! There is no soft focus or focus here.
08/23/2006 12:25:49 PM
I am not a fan of the border at all it is much to distracting from an already bold colored image. For me the sunset is not the best subject for soft focus. 4
  Photographer found comment helpful.
08/23/2006 10:56:24 AM
to much of a haze to be soft
  Photographer found comment helpful.
08/23/2006 10:50:13 AM
Reminds me...gotta clean my glasses.
08/23/2006 09:27:32 AM
To me, this is just blurred and not soft focus. I don't really see a subject with a diffused type glow, which would define it for me. I'd probably remove that vivid bright blur frame as well. The simple white one would suffice, or maybe none at all. I'm sure the sunset is beautiful in focus. Hope this is helpful. ;~D
  Photographer found comment helpful.
08/23/2006 09:13:46 AM
Wow, absolutely horrible. This could be a candidate for the brownie. 1
  Photographer found comment helpful.
08/23/2006 08:10:50 AM
Nice colors, but seems more blurred than soft.
  Photographer found comment helpful.


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