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Challenge: Backlighting IV (Basic Editing)
Camera: Canon EOS-5D
Lens: Canon EF 28-105mm f/3.5-4.5 II USM
Location: Huntington Beach, CA
Date: Nov 19, 2008
Aperture: 4.5
ISO: 1000
Shutter: 1/160
Date Uploaded: Nov 19, 2008

Slightly saturated, pretty much out of camera shot.

Shot this at a retirement party, before the commencement of the reception.

Statistics
Place: 186 out of 239
Avg (all users): 4.6442
Avg (commenters): 2.8333
Avg (participants): 4.4821
Avg (non-participants): 4.7290
Views since voting: 722
Views during voting: 242
Votes: 163
Comments: 8
Favorites: 0


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12/09/2008 02:46:38 AM
Hey there from the Critique Club

Camera Work/Technical: I like the crispness that you captured.

Lighting: No way is this one overexposed or too bright as some of your voters and commenters have suggested. I think that you captured exactly what you set out to capture.

Composition/Content: Nice composition, as well. The reds and greens are nicely saturated, and the petals do a wonderful job pulling my eye into the frame. The brightness pulls my eye directly to the central subjects, then the petals let me wander through the frame again.

My Opinion: I really, really like this image...I think. The current image sizes that DPC allows for the open challenges are far too small for today's technology, PERIOD. Add to that the fact that you sized this one even smaller than those poor requirements and you have a perfect formula for a poorly scoring image. I bet this one was spectacular on your screen, and I bet that it would look terrific in print as well. It is just hard to see on the size of the monitor that I use.

Thank you for the opportunity to provide a critique on your entry,
Eric
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 Comments Made During the Challenge
12/02/2008 06:35:19 PM
I think that the size of your photo is too small and that may have killed your idea, maybe you shouldn't have used so much aperture too. I like the red though. I'm kind of new here in the dpchallenge but i saw a guy saying something other day which i agree. "Always use the biggest size that dp allows, always."
  Photographer found comment helpful.
12/01/2008 10:31:50 AM
Too bright.
11/29/2008 01:50:31 PM
Garish and intense lighting. Ugly.
11/28/2008 07:37:53 PM
A little on the small side. Check out this tutorial on how to prepare your image:
//www.dpchallenge.com/tutorial.php?TUTORIAL_ID=26

The image is also quite overexposed. The challenge details also indicate that you should not include wine or drinking glasses in your entry.
11/28/2008 05:27:37 PM
I guess that I will have a hard time figuring out what you are trying to convey. over exposed background,no glassware was to be used. What is being worshipped, the rose
11/27/2008 11:55:04 PM
I don't really see what you were going for here.

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11/26/2008 03:17:03 AM
This is a little overexposed thus washing out a very interesting background


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