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06/28/2007 12:44:35 AM |
HI from the Critique Club...
Couple of thoughts for you.
First: The color and exposure looks very good. Technically the depth of focus could be improved somewhat. Focus is very sharp on a portion of the petals but falls off quickly before and after that focal plane. This may have been intentional but I cant help but think that a greater depth of field would have improved the picture. To really help identify it explicitly as 'backside', having part of the green center in focus would have been beneficial. Stopping your lens down to f5.6 or f8 would have still allowed you to shoot a decent shutter speed, especially if you upped the ISO rating to 400.
Compositionally the main drawback is the out of focus twig on the LH side. Several commenters mentioned it and I'm sure it was a major factore in the scoring. Flowers have been shot and re-shot so many times it is hard to find a fresh angle. I'm not sure what to suggest compositionally except maybe a tighter crop.  ursula and  tuckersmom both do some great stuff with flowers.
Scoring was primarily affected by the OOF twig. Again, your colors are vivid and exposure looks great. But, DPC voters are sticklers for focus, depth of focus, and clean compositions. It met the challenge well, just needed some finetuning :)
Any questions? PM me. Keep on shooting and have fun!
Mark |
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06/24/2007 05:15:21 PM |
The OOF greenery detracts from the rest of the shot.
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06/23/2007 11:28:21 PM |
| The twig off to the right is distracting. |
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06/21/2007 10:46:51 PM |
| The out of focus part bothers me. nice colour though. |
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06/20/2007 03:05:40 AM |
| The large out-of-focus stem is too distracting. |
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06/19/2007 12:25:11 PM |
| Pretty colors. I wish there was more of the stem in focus. |
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06/18/2007 06:37:23 PM |
| another flower from the stem side...I like the detail in the petals & the FG blur makes in feel like a surveillance photo of this flower, not an inspired title, though |
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06/18/2007 04:21:58 PM |
| I like the composition and the contrast of colors on this. good focus |
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06/18/2007 10:14:48 AM |
| I like it, needs to be a little sharper in focus. You eyed it right, so its just technically off. 5 |
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06/18/2007 05:18:33 AM |
| nice back lighting and dof, good luck |
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