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The dawning of spring
The dawning of spring
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Challenge: Pastels (Advanced Editing IV)
Camera: Canon EOS-350D Rebel XT
Lens: Sigma 70-300mm f/4-5.6 APO DG Macro for Canon
Location: Snells Beach, New Zealand
Date: Sep 2, 2006
Aperture: f/4
ISO: 400
Shutter: 1/3200
Galleries: Floral
Date Uploaded: Sep 2, 2006

 I wasn't going to shoot for this challenge but I was out of a walk and found these spring flowers that seemed to be the right colour.

Editing Steps:
crop
selective colour, white
levels
curves
saturation yellow & green
despeckle
resize
usm

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 09/16/2006 11:07:03 AM
Critique Club Review:

I think some of the comments you have already received have pointed out the things I see in this picture.

The large green area does compete. The softness of the foreground flowers push your eye to the green area. The green just comes on too strong. The brightness could go up a bit. The photo looks like it was taken on a dark cloudy day, or the camera under exposed the shot.

I do like the shallow depth of field in the back of the frame. It is detailed enough to tell us the flowers go on, maybe forever, yet push the eye back forward to the flowers in focus to keep the eye in the picture.

I might have trimmed of a couple of the buds, that stick up into the flower bloom area. There is one along the right third of the photo, right at the back of the sharp area that competes with the blooms.

Overall, this is a very nice picture.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
09/10/2006 07:49:30 PM
Love the DOF. Nice shot
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 09/10/2006 04:07:13 PM
Beautiful.
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 09/04/2006 09:46:51 PM
Nice colours but I think your composition could be stronger. My eyes immediately go to the bare spot on the left and the out of focus flowers in the front. Perhaps a better crop would help this.
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 09/04/2006 05:31:42 PM
I like your DOF.
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 09/04/2006 09:56:33 AM
a little dark for the pastel challenge, imho
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 09/04/2006 07:28:17 AM
nice image
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 09/04/2006 02:10:18 AM
Like the DOF
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