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Girl & Boy Hydrangea
Girl & Boy Hydrangea
Jude


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Challenge: Opposites (Basic Editing I)
Camera: Sony DSC-F505V
Location: In my back yard
Date: May 8, 2004
Date Uploaded: May 8, 2004

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Place: 268 out of 286
Avg (all users): 3.8026
Avg (commenters): 3.4231
Avg (participants): 3.5802
Avg (non-participants): 3.9663
Views since voting: 877
Votes: 309
Comments: 26
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05/18/2004 01:32:21 PM
I am not down grading your photo for it because it is a nicely done one but do yourself a favor and remove the date stamp for your contest photos. You may have done it on purpose but no need to. Good work.
05/18/2004 10:24:14 AM
nice date.
05/18/2004 08:59:14 AM
DATE STAMP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
05/17/2004 08:00:08 PM
The date stamp needs to go
05/17/2004 10:23:10 AM
If I were you I would take out the dating stamp of images.
For the image it self then the subject is fine. Maybe thighter croping from below would have been better and maybe from the sides too.
05/17/2004 04:18:07 AM
I like the colors of this one. I would like to see it from a more creative angle though, and I know you're tired of hearing it by now but it'd be a lot better if you'd either turned off the camera date or cropped it out... nice job though!
05/16/2004 08:42:39 AM
take the date off.......... please
05/16/2004 01:51:11 AM
Nice colors nice idea - if you assume blue is opposite pink. Get rid of the date...
05/15/2004 08:59:41 PM
I understand the rules, but please turn off your date next time. It really distracts from the pic. Also, get down a little more on level with the flowers, so the shot is straight on instead of from above
05/14/2004 05:01:57 PM
im sorry, but this just doesnt represent opposites. i understand what you were trying to do by comparing boy & girl, but it could have used a litle more thought. right now your just comparinf pink to blue, and those two arent really opposites.
05/14/2004 04:19:32 PM
Flower hues are nice, but do not contrast (e.g., red vs. green or blue vs. orange). Blue petals seems out of focus. Greens are very dark, perhaps too dark, and could have contrasted well with the reddish bunch of flowers.
05/14/2004 01:36:39 PM
a bit out of focus, would have played with the depth of field to blur out the background to make the flowers stand out more
05/14/2004 12:39:56 PM
Ouch. Gotta get rid of the time/date stamp. too many distraction in this image as well. The pots, the fence, the shadows. the colors could be a bit more saturated also.
05/13/2004 03:50:12 PM
Not really opposite in colour, shape, type or composition. In fact the only thing you've done opposite is leave the date on your picture which is the opposite of what most people would do. (2) coz at least its in focus.
05/13/2004 02:43:43 PM
Sorry but I think this is a little lacking in creativity
05/13/2004 01:05:47 PM
They are the same though! Colors can be changed by adding certain minerals. Nice flowers though.
05/13/2004 03:48:25 AM
The colours are very nice. This feels more like a snapshot to me than a staged photo.
05/13/2004 01:15:46 AM
The focus seems a little 'soft'. The background detracts from the overall feeling of the picture.
05/13/2004 12:54:12 AM
good. remove timestamp
05/13/2004 12:02:28 AM
I don't find this interesting. Not enough of the flowers. Maybe coming in closer and filling the frame with the flowers would help. Oh yeah, and turning off the date stamp. 4
05/12/2004 09:55:04 PM
great use of your time/date stamp. next time you should turn it off it takes away from a nice image!
05/12/2004 07:31:11 PM
Hi -I think you could of improved this shot in two ways.
Move the two large blooms closer and more focus...tripod.
Also this is a little dark, maybe boost the whites some.
Good luck in the challenge.
05/12/2004 01:07:36 PM
A couple of pieces of advice for submitting shots to DP Challenge (to get a score above 5) - it took me a while to learn this informaiont as well:
1) never submit somethign with the date -at the very least crop the date out.
2) if you're going to shoot flowers (personally, I like flowers) go right in really close and get some sort of interesting angle (there's one of a spider sitting right inside a flower petal that is cool in this challenge - as an example - I gave that one a 10).
3) People in the DPChallenge forums are always complaining about flower shots. They say flowers are boring and have been done way too many times. Personally, I like a flower shot if it's interesting - if it has something I"ve never seen before (like the spider in the petal). You may find you get lower scores just for shooting a flower.
Good luck in future challenges - I hate seeing people get discouraged by negative comments. However, I know it can be difficult to see a low score and wonder why.
For some interesting flower shots... visit www.comstock.com and search for flowers. There are some innovative ones in there that show interesting compositions.
05/12/2004 10:16:07 AM
This looks a bit underexposed. I guess nobody can question that this was taken within the challenge dates!
05/12/2004 02:01:20 AM
i like the date stamp ... you'll never be DQ'd because of that . the focus can be improved a notch. likewise the framing.
05/12/2004 12:32:28 AM
turn the date off your camera! 4


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