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Herbstfreude, Up Close
Herbstfreude, Up Close
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Challenge: Pastels (Advanced Editing IV)
Camera: Canon EOS-20D
Lens: Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM
Location: Garden
Date: Sep 2, 2006
Aperture: f/2.8
ISO: 400
Shutter: 1/250
Galleries: Macro, Floral
Date Uploaded: Sep 3, 2006

 In Swedish, this is called "love herb", which I like much better than the English "orpine". So I went with the Latin name :-)

Not sure how this will do. It's very soft focus, and since the apeture was so wide, well... we'll see. I kind of like it anyway. Hope I don't grow to hate it during the challenge week :-)

Statistics
Place: 21 out of 203
Avg (all users): 6.3122
Avg (commenters): 7.0000
Avg (participants): 6.3973
Avg (non-participants): 6.2586
Views since voting: 1495
Views during voting: 331
Votes: 189
Comments: 21
Favorites: 3 (view)

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 09/16/2006 10:57:21 AM
Critique Club Review:

Color, saturation, brightness, contrast, and hue are all excellent.

Focus is good, and depth of field was used very well to create the desired effect.

A couple of things that I see are, there is a line, (spider web maybe?) that looks almost like a scratch, just above the lower left-most flower bud. Faint, and I didn't pick it up right away, but once seen keeps calling the eye back. The other is the open area at the middle right third of the frame. Again not bad, but to my eye a little too large and as such competes with the rest of the subject.

At first I thought I wish one or more of the flowers were open, but as I look at the photo it is fine the way it is. Maybe just a tiny bit more pink might be nice. There seems to be a lot of white. Not a lot more pink, just a very little bit.

Overall this is a really good picture, as reflected by your score, and one you should be proud of. Excellent job!
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 09/13/2006 01:23:17 PM
The DOF on this is stunning and dreamy. Excellent photo!
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 09/11/2006 03:52:17 PM
How PRETTY!!!!! Such a striking, 3-dimensional photo! Those soft colors are to DIE FOR!!! Excellent work, Amy!
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 09/11/2006 08:57:06 AM
Beautiful! I love the soft tones. Well done.
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 09/11/2006 01:47:06 AM
Beautiful colours and dof.........this is gorgeous Amy!!!!
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
09/10/2006 06:02:33 PM
It's like they are pushing up through a velvety green fog. Interesting and not the usual image. I like it.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 09/10/2006 04:12:54 PM
Beautiful floral.
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 09/10/2006 01:40:01 PM
Small depth of field and soft colors make this quite nice.
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 09/07/2006 02:57:33 PM
beautiful and so softly pastel!! I really like the narrow DOF!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 09/06/2006 09:41:24 PM
I like this - cool picture
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 09/06/2006 03:36:57 PM
Looks very much like the blossom of an onion or chive. Certainly is pastel.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 09/06/2006 12:05:07 PM
stunning colours
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 09/06/2006 05:37:20 AM
Very beautiful...real soft effect and lovely colors.
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 09/05/2006 08:46:42 PM
Dof is amazing and really sets off the buds!
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 09/05/2006 10:25:04 AM
bump
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 09/04/2006 07:20:31 PM
interesting in every way!
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 09/04/2006 10:34:15 AM
soft, very pretty
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 09/04/2006 07:08:38 AM
A stunning image here, and really love this one very mich.....
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 09/04/2006 04:20:51 AM
nice image
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 09/04/2006 02:48:02 AM
Awesome macro
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 09/04/2006 12:21:16 AM
just looking at the thumbnail made me want to look closer and I wasn't disappointed...this is superb for the challenge...soft, great colours, lovely pov 9
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