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Challenge: Flowers II (Advanced Editing VII)
Collection: Portfolio
Camera: Canon PowerShot S3 IS
Location: Oakland, California, USA
Date: Jul 8, 2009
Aperture: 4.51
ISO: 80
Shutter: 1/501
Galleries: Emotive, Floral
Date Uploaded: Jul 8, 2009

 These flowers were flapping in the breeze in the neighbor's driveway, that's a red-leaved cherry-plum tree in the background.

-Handheld, Manual mode
-Slight adjustment with Blue/Yellow Curve
-Resize
-Crop a little from bottom and left
-Create mask: SelectAll > Border=16 > SelectInverse > ContractSelection=16 > Feather=16 (applied 3 times) > SelectInverse > SaveSelection
-Touch up mask to include edges of leaf, stem, and petals
-Blue/Yellow Curve applied through mask
-Green Curve Curve applied through mask
-RGB Curve applied through mask
-USM at 66%/0.6 dia/TH = 5 (applied twice)
-SaveAs JPEG (baseline optimized) at quality 10/10 = 198KB

File name: AAngel_IMG_2927-DPC.jpg

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Votes: 137
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 08/04/2009 11:09:24 PM
Greetings from Ernie of the Critique Club!

Subject: The flower definately meets the challenge description and is the obvious subject of the photo. It is well presented.

Composition: Nicely placed in the frame. I am not sure if a different view of the flower (from a different angle) would have improved this or not.

Technicals: Given your many contributions to this site I am sure that you are aware your highlights are overexposed in this image.

Improvements: The lighting appears to be harsh sunlight. I would suggest paying close attention to your camera's histogram to check for overexposure and compensating as needed, as well as either using fill flash or a portable light tent/scrim to cut down on the harsh sunlight. I think without the overexposure on the white petals this would have easily been in the mid 5's.

I look forward to seeing more of your entries in the near future. :)

Ernie
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 07/20/2009 09:48:52 AM
Lovely poppy - well done !
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
07/16/2009 12:29:08 AM
The petals almost look like paper - so fragile...nice shot
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 07/15/2009 02:12:39 PM
Vivid & crisp but the white is a little blown out.
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 07/13/2009 02:12:26 PM
The highlights are blown out and the perspective is very ordinary. Background is too dark. 4.
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 07/13/2009 07:45:14 AM
A lovely flower and good composition, but the whites are blown in spots....light seems too bright.
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