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05/23/2005 06:41:06 AM |
Thanks Matthew/legalbeagle for taking the time for such an in-depth comment on this photo. VERY much appreciated!
I failed to mention I did use a ND grad (grey) filter to add some contrast to the sky...
Message edited by author 2005-05-23 10:45:17. |
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05/23/2005 05:21:54 AM |
I like this photo, but it is competing in a particularly strong field, and does not have the necessarty "wow" factor to avoid the middle ground. The middle ground for this challenge was a bit lower than usual, I think, because there are quite a lot of "wow" shots.
I would criticise the photo as follows. the gradation of colour in the background travels from yellow to blue, but the blue is not a strong blue: there is still a strong yellow cast. I might strengthen the blues in the top half of the image using colour balance controls, and possibly curves in certain channels.
The clouds are very subtle. I might have experimented with a polarising filter to punch out the whites in the cloud from the blue. As it is, the clouds are sufferring from the same yellow haze/colour cast.
Uniformity of the flowers is impressive - they are well matched and cast an interesting silhouette (if not immediately obvious as flowers). Drama might have been added if you could have caught a hihglight line tracing around the flowers to emphasise their shape and nature: possibly hard or impossible with this type of flower, but easier with flowers that have fluff on their leaves or petals (ie change of fauna being photographed - impractical to find different flowers on this timescale etc. I am sure, but availability/choice of subject will affect scoring dramatically). |
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05/23/2005 05:08:59 AM |
Thanks David.
Originally posted by Pug-H:
Well, I'm surprised that it didn't score higher. It's a silhouette for sure, with interesting negative space and nice gradation of colour in the sky. I gave it 7. |
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05/23/2005 05:02:32 AM |
| Well, I'm surprised that it didn't score higher. It's a silhouette for sure, with interesting negative space and nice gradation of colour in the sky. I gave it 7. |
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05/17/2005 11:46:01 AM |
| This would have been better taken while the sun was higher and maybe hidden behind one of the flowers. There isn't much contrast between the tops of the flowers and the dark sky. |
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