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Backyard Blooms
Backyard Blooms
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Challenge: Pink II (Basic Editing)
Camera: Canon EOS-350D Rebel XT
Lens: Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 USM Macro
Location: backyard, Orlando, FL
Date: Aug 18, 2009
Aperture: f/2.8
ISO: 400
Shutter: 1/400
Galleries: Macro, Floral
Date Uploaded: Aug 18, 2009

 Shot RAW, in ACR raised color temp, boosted clarity, vibrance, saturation. In Photoshop, made curves and vibrance adjustments, resized, smart sharpened, rotated image 90 degrees, saved for Web.

Statistics
Place: 83 out of 161
Avg (all users): 5.1696
Avg (commenters): 6.0000
Avg (participants): 4.8036
Avg (non-participants): 5.3478
Views since voting: 808
Views during voting: 261
Votes: 171
Comments: 5
Favorites: 1 (view)

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 08/27/2009 04:33:49 AM
Hey there from the Critique Club

Camera Work/Technical: Awesome. I love the detail of the petals that fade into a very interesting, blurred background. The colors of the flower play very well against the browns and greens in the background. Well seen and well executed.

Lighting: Flawless. Whites on flowers are difficult to expose right. Nice work, especially considering the detail in the browns that you still captured.

Composition/Content: Wonderful composition, and I really like the flower that you chose to submit. I like the fact that there is a great deal of beauty left in the flower, but there are also signs of death and dying creeping in. Whether or not you meant to capture a statement, you did.

My Opinion: The voters absolutely missed this one. While I have not been through all the entries in this challenge, this has been my favorite flower capture of the challenge thus far. It is surely much better, in my opinion, than many that scored higher.

Thank you for the opportunity to provide a critique on your entry,
Eric
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
08/23/2009 10:05:06 PM
could have used a bit bigger DOF.
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 08/23/2009 02:24:28 AM
Pretty but such a shame you couldn't find a better specimen.
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 08/21/2009 10:07:23 AM
very pretty pic, I really like the aged petals on it.
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 08/19/2009 04:40:10 AM
I like it but I'm not sure of the browning on the petals, kinda think a few more brown petals on the lower edge would balance out better
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