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A Tree With Heart
A Tree With Heart
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Challenge: Heart II (Advanced Editing VII)
Camera: Pentax K10D
Lens: Pentax DA 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 AF
Location: My Front Yard, Statesboro, GA
Date: Nov 16, 2008
Aperture: F/4
ISO: 400
Shutter: 1/125
Galleries: Landscape, Nature
Date Uploaded: Nov 16, 2008

RAW to Jpeg Conversion in Adobe RAW 4.2, Quick Select Tool, Magic Wand, Multiple Layers using Deep Blue & Orange Filters, Blending Changes of Multiply/Overlay/Soft Light/Screen,Guassian Blur, Blur Tool, Resized, Adjusted Sharpening, USM, Saved for Web...

Statistics
Place: 71 out of 105
Avg (all users): 5.2857
Avg (commenters): 6.1667
Avg (participants): 5.1489
Avg (non-participants): 5.3421
Views since voting: 959
Views during voting: 285
Votes: 161
Comments: 8
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11/27/2008 01:29:58 PM
Hello from Critique Club my friend :)

It is always nice to critique a friend's work, because they can't harm you if I kill their photos LOL ... well, at least I would like to think so :P

Nice capture, good composition. You can see the heart clearly, and you did emphasize with color adjustment and desaturation. I say good work, and it should never get any 2's or 3's... some picky DPCers hit you with 4's, but what can I say.

If I were you, I would have another shot of this tree, with shallower DOF, and make the background more blurry.

Other than that, I think it's a good photo, not an award winner, but you got it man, you did get your shot :)

Leo
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
11/19/2008 07:31:26 AM
it does grow on me 9
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11/17/2008 02:10:34 PM
a creative find visually - the textures of the tree are so fantastic
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11/17/2008 01:00:55 PM
Nice dof, would prefer a little more of the right tree's trunk near the top.
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11/17/2008 12:37:23 PM
Nice catch, I like the color on the tree, the desaturation did not catch the light behind the leaves, so that is a little distracting, good idea and try.
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11/17/2008 12:03:21 PM
creative idea with the tree and the branch and the selective desat. somehow the picture lacks impact. May be because most of the space is grey? or because there is no real focus point?
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11/17/2008 02:22:32 AM
very clever I like the use of negative space
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11/17/2008 12:23:37 AM
I can see why you did the selective desaturation, but unfortunately you missed large chunks and in this venue you're going to get hammered for being sloppy. I think you're too close to your subject and that is limiting your framing and cropping options. You can see the heart fairly clearly from the thumbnail, but at full size I'm looking at the pretty bark patterns.
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