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The Mother Flower
The Mother Flower
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Challenge: Free Study 2007-04 (Expert Editing*)
Camera: Sony DSLR-A100
Lens: Sony DT 18-70mm f/3.5-5.6 Aspherical ED Zoom Lens for Sony Alpha
Location: Corpus Christi Tx
Date: Apr 21, 2007
Aperture: f/6.3
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/640
Galleries: Floral, Self Portrait
Date Uploaded: Apr 22, 2007

 © Claire McAdams
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I am actually fairly surprised with how this came out. This is a combination of five photographs, me with the background, the two flowers I am holding and then mamma flower and then about 80% of the baby flowers scattered in the field thing. The field didn't have nearly as many yellow flowers where I was as I liked so I took another picture I took that day and put it underneith and selevtively erased where the flowers were so they would look randomw and a part of the scene. The bottom right hand corner also had barly any flowers at all so I used the same technique to transfer over some white flowers. Lighting and and spot editing I edited curves and cloned out skin imperfections and a bra strap. I also did alot of USM at a radius of 50 and about 5% several times throughout editing. I have no idea how this will do...all my other free study entries have done HORRIBLE when I thought they would do well so I am not going to get my hopes up. The flowers in the background are out of focus partly because the picture they came from was out of focus and I also applied gaussian blur to the background to make me and the flower pop out more but I am not sure if I like it...too late and too tired to try and go back and fix it. I don't really like my facial expression but this was the best one from the group.... I also wonder how many people are going to notice that I had been picking flowers and thats why I am scared of momma flower...

this was definately not my model or outfit of choice but i was driving and i could not resist the flowers on the side of the road and so i had to just go with using myself in what I was wearing

Statistics
Place: 140 out of 573
Avg (all users): 6.1130
Avg (commenters): 7.4615
Avg (participants): 5.9758
Avg (non-participants): 6.4340
Views since voting: 2014
Views during voting: 364
Votes: 177
Comments: 22
Favorites: 2 (view)

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 09/06/2007 10:31:54 PM
hey, that's a pretty good job. Good colours, funny idea. well done.
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 06/10/2007 06:08:49 PM
Wow nice job on putting this together. Funny. Great idea. It looks real.
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 05/12/2007 07:44:03 AM
Greetings from the Critique Club -

Let me first say congrats on getting out of your FS slump. Anything over a 6 in a FS is always great. Next let me say that I am impressed with your PS work. I figured the large flower was a secondary pic (pretty quick arent I?) but I never would have guessed any other major editing had been done. Your merging of all the parts and images is very clean.

Good story (unfortunataly I didnt get it in voting - though now it makes complete and total sense). Good composition and layout. Your stance is funny but not painfully posed. Colors are very nice, focus and details are good and you did a decent job on your background. The blur worked good to separate you fomr your background.

I dont really have a whole lot on the critical side. Maybe your border is a bit too thick, but thats just a personal preference.

Overall a very good use of expert editing ruleset, but even more so after reading your details. When you can use this ruleset without anyone being the wiser then you know you did real well.

Keep up the good work and good luck in future challenges!

Tim

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 05/08/2007 04:48:34 PM
wow love how this is put together! good editing. great colors! and you look fine lol. fun pic!
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 05/08/2007 04:52:13 AM
Wow, very very great concept. I like how it was executed as well - as others have said, great use of expert editing without going over the top.
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 05/08/2007 12:21:36 AM
Seems you received nice comments....wonder why this didn't finish around 6.5 or higher? Hmmm...
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
05/07/2007 10:33:50 PM
Good idea and execution. An "A" for originality.
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 05/07/2007 10:08:40 PM
Funny! 7
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 05/06/2007 05:43:47 PM
Very funny idea, and I like how you set it all up. Model pose is just right.
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 05/05/2007 07:03:29 PM
This is awesome, Great editing
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 05/05/2007 07:02:39 PM
Could be sharper but i lov the drama 8
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 05/04/2007 11:36:44 PM
Reminds me of "The Day of the Triffids" but in a nice way :)

I'm not voting in this challenge. The lighting on the sunflower and the person don't quite seem to match, almost but not quite.
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 05/04/2007 10:20:35 PM
It is a very interesting picture. Very well done!
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 05/04/2007 02:00:41 PM
Funny!
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 05/04/2007 08:45:46 AM
Very nice! You made me laugh! 9 for that.
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 05/03/2007 01:06:50 AM
very cool! love the creativity here!
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 05/02/2007 09:47:45 PM
Funny!
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 05/02/2007 01:50:15 AM
much fun!
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 05/01/2007 10:46:06 PM
Nice except for the faded stem at the bottom.
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 05/01/2007 09:59:01 PM
Great use of expert editing - so many of the obviously 'expert' edited shots look waaayyy too over worked - this is fabulous and very creative.
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 05/01/2007 08:43:37 PM
lol nice
 05/01/2007 12:33:24 AM
This is so weird. I like it though. I hope others do too.
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