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Springtime in Skagit Valley
Springtime in Skagit Valley
robbieh


Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Free Study VIII (Advanced Editing IV)
Camera: Nikon D70
Location: Mt. Vernon, WA
Date: Apr 15, 2005
Aperture: 1:32
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/20s
Galleries: Landscape, Floral
Date Uploaded: Apr 15, 2005

 The day was quite stormy so it was fun trying to adjust to rapidly changing light and keeping the tulips sharp with the wind whipping around.

Statistics
Place: 51 out of 507
Avg (all users): 6.3125
Avg (commenters): 7.3000
Avg (participants): 6.2396
Avg (non-participants): 6.6042
Views since voting: 2247
Views during voting: 352
Votes: 240
Comments: 23
Favorites: 1 (view)

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 Comments Made During the Challenge
04/25/2005 07:01:36 PM
Can almost smell them.... nice shot for this challenge, like the colors and composition (draws you right into the photo). I counted 11,634 tulips. LOL - Nicely done!
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 04/25/2005 04:50:32 PM
Sums up spring very nicely
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 04/25/2005 12:29:37 PM
Amazing scene - great DOF and comp.
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 04/25/2005 09:26:54 AM
Excellent lighting. I love this area and visit it most years. This year was early. This works especially well because of the layers of color - yellow, red, white, deep blue, grey. I also like the exceptional depth of field. (Pun intended.)
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 04/24/2005 11:20:56 PM
Beautiful, just needs a slight unsharp mask to make this magnificent. looks like something from a magazine or calendar.
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 04/24/2005 02:50:01 PM
this is a true free study image, this had to be studied before it was taken, you did not just snap this candidly. this composition has it all. color, lines, perfectly exposed sky, main subject, lots of foreground that brings the eye to the subject, very impressive image. easily a 11+ but I can only score it a 10.
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 04/24/2005 11:40:04 AM
good composition
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 04/24/2005 10:34:40 AM
Lookin for ribbon!!!! 10
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 04/24/2005 07:31:46 AM
well done.
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 04/24/2005 07:18:50 AM
Making the most of your wide-angle I see here. I would crop out the one open-faced flower in the bottom left, just a nitpick but I find it a little bit distracting. The colors here are phenomenal and this is top of the line work. 9.
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 04/24/2005 06:18:48 AM
Nice perspective and color
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 04/23/2005 10:31:09 PM
Nice depth of field, brilliant colors.
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 04/23/2005 09:06:37 AM
Wow what intense colours.9
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 04/22/2005 04:49:59 PM
Beautiful photo.
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 04/22/2005 05:29:27 AM
beautiful shot and composition, but the colors look a bit drab and muddy.
 04/21/2005 03:59:20 PM
excellent composition and DOF. Perhaps, you could've made the sky a bit more dramatic by selective adjustment. Also, why did not you make it 640px vertical?
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 04/20/2005 05:25:38 PM
what a beautiful place to be. simply incredible. you have a nice image here, but it could stand to have a deeper dof. also, the hazy backdrop of the mountains and clouds seems to weigh heavy on the image. in a situation as this, you might consider shooting from a different perspective (either much higher or much, much lower) so that you can get the commanding detail without the distractions. all the same, nice work, and good luck!
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 04/20/2005 04:04:21 PM
How did you get the shadowed effect in the yellow flowers. This is gorgeous.
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 04/19/2005 01:27:53 PM
Nice colors, they maybe a tad dull, and layout 8
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 04/19/2005 01:02:09 PM
Ohmygoodness! How beautiful is THAT!!!! THIS is the type of picture that surely made them want to do a Spring Free Study! This is so amazing!!! 10
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 04/19/2005 05:48:10 AM
Foreground is very beautiful but the houses look out of place there and don´t really add anything to this picture IMHO. 5
 04/19/2005 03:57:35 AM
great use of color, busy foreground works well, nicely done
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 04/18/2005 09:03:16 PM
Gorgeous colors. Like the perspective of this photograph. Looks like miles and miles of tulips. As far as the eye can see.
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