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Close-up Feather
Close-up Feather
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Challenge: National Geographic (Advanced Editing I)
Camera: Nikon Coolpix 990
Location: My home
Date: Jan 17, 2004
Aperture: 2.8
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1 second
Galleries: Emotive, Macro
Date Uploaded: Jan 15, 2004

A Peacock feather through eye piece of disecting scope at 4x at 15 power.

Statistics
Place: 122 out of 124
Avg (all users): 4.4095
Avg (commenters): 4.1818
Avg (participants): 4.2326
Avg (non-participants): 4.5323
Views since voting: 1174
Votes: 210
Comments: 14
Favorites: 0


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09/07/2007 02:03:46 PM
Very beautiful colors.
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02/01/2004 04:12:44 PM
Greetings from the Critique Club

Initial thoughts/My opinion
Great play of colour and texture/lines. Too artistic and not scientific enough to fit for NG IMO.

Content/Composition
What a colourful image! I like the bended lines and also how you arranged them along the diagonal. Having the upper right more blurred is nice too. The compositional problem I do have with the image is the fact that it is not clear at all what I am looking at. Even with the title I don't know what part of a feather and what bird's feathers I see. Thus having more in focus would have worked better IMO.

Camera work -technically
Focus is way too narrow, even the sharpest parts are not very clear. Light and exposure are fine.

Digital Processing - Technical
No issue here. Seems that not much digital work has been applied and it is also not necessary too.

Fits the challenge
Here I see the problem I and the voters had: it's more an artistic image and not one of the very clear and crisp NG-images one has in mind. Showing microscopic features do fit for NG but it should be more like "Aha, that's how things look in detail!" and not "What is it?".

Good luck for your upcoming submissions
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01/26/2004 05:33:02 PM
Wow, I thought this would do MUCH better! I gave you a 7. Nice macro! :)
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
01/23/2004 04:51:02 PM
This might have done nice in "pwl". I like the wild colors and the dof. There isn't enough information to know it's a feather, but it sure is a pretty abstract.
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01/23/2004 09:06:34 AM
I see the idea and I like the patterns. Personall (and I know this is a very personal observation) it would have been nice to see a greater depth of field.
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01/22/2004 09:05:23 PM
Too out of focus to tell what it is (the title helps...)
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01/20/2004 10:18:27 AM
DOF is too narrow to really appreciate this image, as most of it appears out of focus.
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01/20/2004 05:18:30 AM
unique - is it peacock?
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01/19/2004 06:20:36 PM
Maybe the DOF is just a bit too shallow for this shot, can't really tell what's going on here, no clear subject. I like the colors though.
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01/19/2004 06:03:56 PM
This is too close up for my taste, it has lost alot of the detail.
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01/19/2004 06:01:49 PM
an interesting abstract, but not sure you'd find it in NG
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01/19/2004 12:35:38 PM
Not enough detail to hold my interest.
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01/19/2004 12:17:14 PM
lost me on this one...not sure what it has to do with National Geographic
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01/19/2004 12:58:56 AM
I like it! The spectral highlights are like jewels in motion!
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