Stone Steps (to a Stone House!)
by risenphoenixster

Comment by rdaily:
This is so pretty !!! Love the splash of greens the plants bring to it !!! Very Nice !!!

Stone Steps (to a Stone House!)
by risenphoenixster

Comment by Emerkaza:
Very, very pretty!

strawberry cascade.jpg
by risenphoenixster

Comment by dafletchr:
Lovely rich colors in this.

Stone Steps (to a Stone House!)
by risenphoenixster

Comment by sdstone00:
This is a really great image.

Stone Steps (to a Stone House!)
by risenphoenixster

Comment by fordchick460:
Georgeous! Love the angle & coloring is spectacular.

Stone Steps (to a Stone House!)
by risenphoenixster

Comment by Utopian:
Seems a bit over-processed but it's nice. Adds a bit of fairytale element. Congrats.

Stone Steps (to a Stone House!)
by risenphoenixster

Comment by mgarsteck:
soft touch is good on this.

strawberry cascade.jpg
by risenphoenixster

Comment by roz:
love the ripeness of it and the moisture .. i didnt know about the strawberries having all that going on at the same time ... looking at this photograph i can see it happening .. for some reason i love that little white flower poking out from the growth around it .. great shot .. :)

strawberry cascade.jpg
by risenphoenixster

Comment by Germaine:
I really like this shot -- it has a nice diagonal flow from upper right to lover left. IMNSHO, you might crop a little off of the right side to accentuate that. Also, maybe a little dodging at the lower right to give us a tiny bit more detail in the pot. It may be my monitor, but that is sort of a large black space when I view it. I really, really like the bright red strawberries. Normally I don't care for water drops, but here they really add to the shot.

strawberry cascade.jpg
by risenphoenixster

Comment by Lutchenko:
Looking at your settings I'm guessing that it was quite dark.
F6.3 accounts for your very shallow depth of field leading to the lack of background focus, whilst the slow shutter speed 1/20s is going to make hand holding quite a challenge, well for me anyway lol.
If you did need to shoot at these settings due to light etc I would be tempted to move further away from the subject and then crop tigher on the image in this way getting a bigger depth of field. (The closer you are to the subject for a given F nos the shallower the depth of field)

I'm going to make a guess now that based on the settings and the shot I reckon you were at full zoom and about 1m away from the subject. This would give you approx 8cm of depth of field.

Message edited by author 2009-06-09 03:34:48.