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Evening Daisy
Evening Daisy
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Challenge: Flora III (Basic Editing)
Camera: Nikon Coolpix S210
Location: Granada Hills
Date: Mar 26, 2009
Aperture: automatic
ISO: 64
Shutter: automatic
Galleries: Sky, Floral
Date Uploaded: Mar 26, 2009

 NO EDITING DONE! Picture taken at a park by my house. Used natural light.

Statistics
Place: 245 out of 271
Avg (all users): 4.3248
Avg (commenters): 0.0000
Avg (participants): 4.2174
Avg (non-participants): 4.4091
Views since voting: 786
Views during voting: 217
Votes: 157
Comments: 3
Favorites: 0

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 04/17/2009 09:47:29 PM
checking this picture on my home (calibrated) monitor - It's dark but not as dark here and the colors are much brighter. Lighten it up. I wonder why you chose to cut off the petals in three sides. Since you decided to cut, maybe a closer crop would be even more dramatic.
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 04/17/2009 06:01:29 PM
You change your mind and start to do at least basic editing of your photos. If you are not a Photoshop fan like me, you can try to use Paint Shop Pro. I've a forum thread here were I mentioned some basic steps from my workflow, and got advice from pro's on how to improve it. Since I'm now dealing with eliminating noise, I can tell your picture is too noisy, and noisy pictures are risky even if the noise is intentional. Something else that I learnt recently is that overall voters will score down any oversaturated picture, and your picture looks oversaturated to me. At last but not least, I'd mention also that the photo is too dark.
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 04/17/2009 03:44:58 PM
So, I guess your own statement, no editing done, explains the score. While the colors are lovely and the composition isn't bad, the overall image on my monitor is quite dark. It's always risky to enter a dark photo, even if you intended it to be dark. You will lose points due to "poor voter monitor calibration syndrome". Take a look at this on some other monitors (PC and Mac) and see what you think. Personally I would have lightened it up, the center of the flower is completely black with only red dots to show the structure. Look at your bell curve - Not many people "loved" it, most people thought it was "ok" and a few people "hated" it. This is a contest for mass appeal, to score well you please the masses. After a while you will give up trying to please everyone and say to yourself "hell, I like it a lot, who cares about the score". Do you like this a lot?
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