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Heart of the rose
Heart of the rose
Someamateur


Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Love IV (Advanced Editing VII)
Camera: Pentax *ist DL
Lens: Sigma 28-80mm f/3.5-5.6 Aspherical for Sigma (Black)
Location: Adelaide Hills, South Australia
Date: Feb 14, 2012
Aperture: 3.5
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/3 Seconds
Date Uploaded: Feb 14, 2012

Great fun taking this with some help from the wife. A bit cliche and will most likely lose marks against better rose photos. But I enjoyed it and I'm happy how it turned out.

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Place: 35 out of 53
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Views during voting: 219
Votes: 121
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02/25/2012 09:42:05 PM
Greetings from the Critique Club!

I like the angle you have on the rose here, it helps make the shot look much less cliched. Very shallow dof is always tricky to do well, especially as you aren't square onto the subject; you pretty much have to pick your battles. Most voters seem to like shallow dof so long as it's more to the front of an image.

I'm not so sure about the heart. It's at a third and it's white, so it competes with the redness of the rose and the other object at the heart of the rose. With a minor change in comp the white heart could have been at the rose's centre instead.

But the main thing is, you're happy with what you shot and entered and fwiw I find that to be the important thing. Too many people shoot just to please the voters, not themselves, then end up disappointed. So please stay true to your vision and continue to enter, learn, and have fun.

Feel free to PM me,

Susan
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02/15/2012 06:01:42 PM
shame the reds are blown out and the focus appears off to mem maybe the heart texture is the focus point and whats in the rose its very ahrd to tell, my guess a diamond?
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