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Chasing Lavender
Chasing Lavender
Edwardho94


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Challenge: HDR V (Advanced Editing VII)
Location: Aix en Provence
Date: Aug 13, 2014
Aperture: 5.6
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/1000
Date Uploaded: Aug 13, 2014

Took this photo while siiting down one afternoon on a lavender field. Used exposure merging to create a HDR file and advance editing to balance the contrast between the sky and the ground.

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Place: 37 out of 55
Avg (all users): 5.5730
Avg (commenters): 6.1250
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Avg (non-participants): 5.8364
Views since voting: 217
Views during voting: 204
Votes: 89
Comments: 9
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08/30/2014 10:30:37 AM
Greetings From Critique Club

There are two ways to approach this image critically: as a composition, and based on how you dealt with the HDR requirement of the challenge.

Speaking compositionally, The image is startlingly static considering how much convergence is used, because convergence is usually very dynamic. If you hold your thumb up over the feet, you'll notice the image becomes much more dynamic. Not the image you wanted to make, obviously, but nevertheless a more dynamic one. And in DPC, "dynamic" is worth points. The feet, apparently, anchor the image in a rather mundane way. Which may be your point, of course.

Looking at it as an HDRI image, it's a little awkward. There's a huge disconnect between the rendering of the sky and the rendering of the field, so much that they look like they belong to two different images. And, as a niggling point, the tallest sunflower on the left is showing total shadow, whilst none of the others do, so that's an inconsistency that works against the whole. In general, it's a bit harsh and crunchy of an image.

I did *like* the image, it made me smile, but in the end it finished smack in the middle of the field, which is where I'd have expected it to end up.
 Comments Made During the Challenge
08/21/2014 05:34:52 PM
way too dark on my screen and my screen is calibrated properly :) beautiful sky!
08/21/2014 02:56:42 PM
like the idea and composition, feels a bit over done bit too much contrast ?
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08/21/2014 08:38:56 AM
Nice pov
  Photographer found comment helpful.
08/21/2014 01:03:09 AM
Very saturated
  Photographer found comment helpful.
08/19/2014 06:22:39 AM
Interesting POV and lines. Can I borrow this field for the Purple challenge>
  Photographer found comment helpful.
08/16/2014 02:14:55 PM
Underexposed throughout. Distracting feet. I see the untapped potential of the scene.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
08/16/2014 12:28:56 PM
well thought out image nice composition and colouring
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08/16/2014 06:14:39 AM
Feels like everything is dark.
  Photographer found comment helpful.


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