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Early Christmas Cactus
Early Christmas Cactus
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Challenge: Foreground Bokeh (Basic Editing)
Camera: Kodak Z650
Location: My living room in Central Belgium
Date: Nov 8, 2007
Aperture: F 3.25
ISO: 400
Shutter: 1/158
Galleries: Macro, Floral
Date Uploaded: Nov 8, 2007

 A Christmas Cactus in our living room put before a black backdrop.

PP = Crop 1.25:1, Reduce noise, Noise Ninja, Levels, Curves, Border, Resize to 640X, USM @ 80%/2.0/10, Submit


Statistics
Place: 129 out of 170
Avg (all users): 4.8430
Avg (commenters): 6.0000
Avg (participants): 4.7018
Avg (non-participants): 4.9130
Views since voting: 667
Views during voting: 240
Votes: 172
Comments: 5
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AuthorThread
 11/27/2007 12:26:42 PM
Hi Gree,
Interesting image, What I think happened here was the right side of the image accounted for your 2,3,4 scores and the left side got you the higher 5,6,7 scores. What caused this i believe are two things, First your bokeh took control over the entire image & secondly the bokeh had the effect of creating two separate images. The right side of the image seems slightly out of focus and a bit blown-out causing a lose of detail in the flower and water dropletts. On the left side however you have a nice clean, sharp image nice detail in the pedals & water dropletts. The leaf just in front of the flower is nice and soft and it\'s placement compliments the image. I would have either cropped or repositioned and used just the upper left side of the image only. This would have given you a nice line coming down the right side of the image and making that second leaf your bokeh. I took the liberty of trying it and turned out to be a really nice image that I would have scored a 7 or maybe 8.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
11/20/2007 11:16:47 PM
Great DOF! Superb Image! :)
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 11/18/2007 03:39:59 PM
The big green leaf or stem in the middle is disturbing. The petal on the left is lovely.
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 11/17/2007 05:21:17 AM
The foregrounds gets in the way here. Rather than adding to the composition, I feel it detracts.
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 11/14/2007 11:12:03 AM
i feel the bokeh is the "subject" of this photo... rather than making the photo better...
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