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Challenge: Flowers II (Advanced Editing VII)
Camera: Canon EOS-40D
Lens: Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 II
Location: TX
Date: Jul 12, 2009
Aperture: 9.0
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/30
Galleries: Nature, Floral
Date Uploaded: Jul 12, 2009

Bright sun of 104ยบ TX Sunday!

Natural light, trying to stay somewhat in the shadow of the larger flowers.


Statistics
Place: 214 out of 255
Avg (all users): 5.0296
Avg (commenters): 5.3333
Avg (participants): 5.0465
Avg (non-participants): 5.0000
Views since voting: 629
Views during voting: 212
Votes: 135
Comments: 4
Favorites: 0


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07/23/2009 04:22:34 PM
Greetings from the Critique Club!

First, I generally try to play "guess the score" - I'd have put this at about a 5.6 or so. So I'm a bit befuddled by your score. I suspect it has to do with the flower at the top, but I'll get to why I kinda like that in a second.

Definitely meets the challenge; good focus, good depth of field, nice use of the natural light, and good detail, particularly the little hair thingies. The flower at the top, to me, shows what is to come, and I like it there. The OOF nature of that bloom, however, is probably not pleasing to many, and considered "distracting" by some. The overall composition is a little plain, but it does provide some intrigue as I think there's some detail of the plant's leaf in the bokeh....

Is this a close view of a geranium? (I've been trying to figure out what it is, and I really don't know flowers very well.)

At any rate, not sure if this has been helpful or not, but hopefully it's been at least a little entertaining. :-)
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
07/16/2009 12:59:06 AM
Nice detail on the pods
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07/13/2009 02:53:31 PM
Nice detail.
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07/13/2009 12:59:15 PM
The flower at the top is a bit distracting but this is a good thought for the challenge. Maybe a bit more colour to make it jump out at you.
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