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Challenge: Backsides (Advanced Editing V)
Camera: Canon EOS-350D Rebel XT
Lens: Canon EF 70-200mm f/4.0L USM
Date: Jun 17, 2007
Aperture: f/8
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/80
Galleries: Floral
Date Uploaded: Jun 17, 2007

very basic, levels, curves, USM, hue/sat ... crop

Statistics
Place: 262 out of 381
Avg (all users): 5.1732
Avg (commenters): 5.4000
Avg (participants): 5.0800
Avg (non-participants): 5.3077
Views since voting: 757
Views during voting: 189
Votes: 127
Comments: 8
Favorites: 0


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06/27/2007 05:39:13 PM
The Technicals: Lighting is good. It's even and you controlled the highlight fairly well. The blacks are black. That said, the lighting is also not dramatic. In other words, it merely lights the subject instead of interacting with it. Focus is an issue. Your focus plane is on the stem of the plant. Probably the sharpest focus should be on the petals somewhere. Using a smaller aperture could have helped (then you would have to use a tripod, but no matter, the flower isn't moving, you could do a 2 second exposure if you wanted). Composition is fairly good. Not centered, but not particularly dynamic.

The feel: Straightforward. We see a picture of a flower which has been done fairly well, but it doesn't provide any "wow". We take it in quickly, then move on. There is no reason to linger.

The game: Flowers have to be done interestingly on DPC to survive. Look at ursula. She excels with flowers, so they can be done well, but she also does interesting things with them. You got a huge number of 5s which means the shot didn't lack in the technical dept too bad, but didn't do anything for people either. Work on some "wow".
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06/25/2007 09:33:09 AM
The color here is so nice! It looks great against the black background!
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
06/24/2007 05:10:09 PM
Nice colors but very flat lighting...
TC
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06/21/2007 06:36:16 PM
The flower is nice...i am focusing on the glare on the petals though.
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06/21/2007 07:31:58 AM
great colours , however my eye is really drawn to the folded petal on the left. Good luck
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06/19/2007 03:48:42 PM
very simple and elegant looking. I like the contrast between the orange and the green
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06/18/2007 09:49:23 AM
I think the DOF is a touch too shallow, I like the composition.
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06/18/2007 12:24:19 AM
Seems a lil blurry


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