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Red Tulips
Red Tulips
Azrifel


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Challenge: Flora (Classic Editing)
Camera: Fujifilm FinePix S602Z
Location: Wognum
Date: Apr 20, 2003
Aperture: F2.8
ISO: 160
Shutter: 1/680s
Galleries: Nature, Still Life
Date Uploaded: Apr 20, 2003

Drove around the whole morning to get some good tulip shots so that I can beat Kiwiness for this challenge. I have some nice colorful landscapes, but because of the sunny weather all the flowers have such powerful colors that they don't look that well. It is also hard to find a good background for the fields, just a field of tulips is too empty imo.
This field is near where I live, I could get on the land easily and did a few closeups. Up close looked the best so I selected this one. Clean, simple, powerful.

Rotated to the left, cropped a bit of the bottom, resampled, unsharp mask.

Camera: Aperture priority handheld, soft, 6mp.

Lets see what Kiwi comes up with, I advised him to go to Holland this weekend for the tulips. He will probably beat me. :)

Statistics
Place: 35 out of 139
Avg (all users): 6.1838
Avg (commenters): 7.2941
Avg (participants): 6.1959
Avg (non-participants): 6.1538
Views since voting: 1235
Votes: 136
Comments: 19
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04/30/2003 12:00:39 AM
He he! Well Az I didn't enter anything for the flora challenge cos I knew you were out after me :-) Good score anyway, you sure live in the right part of the world for tulips!
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
04/27/2003 03:42:17 PM
Tulips are my very favorite flower - these look incredible! Nice job!
04/27/2003 07:54:22 AM
Nice field of red. The composition of this is very effective. The leaves transition into the red blooms in a very pleasant way. I'm going to give it 10.
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04/26/2003 01:50:37 AM
great composition 10
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04/25/2003 04:40:55 AM
An ocean of red tulips! This is a choice pic and the perspective you have chosen really works here.
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04/24/2003 02:28:22 PM
Great shot, but the leavs in the cneter seem to be more in focus than the Tulip itself. Or perhaps the red is a bit intense and washes out the focus. Who cares, it's a great picture.
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04/24/2003 12:00:46 PM
Nice image. Would have cropped the background beyond the tulip field off; it's a bit distracting. 7 Journey
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04/23/2003 07:03:01 AM
The point of view here works fantastically as the tulips fade to a red blurry line! Nice DOF too. The colors seem a little too "pushed" and unnatural, but your concept works well.
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04/23/2003 01:47:12 AM
Showing them going on for quite some time is an effective tool for this photo showing quantity. Good work.
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04/22/2003 04:24:55 PM
excellent work... the red and green contrast nicely and I really like the way this field of tulips 'levels' off across the top of the frame :) - setzler
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04/22/2003 11:44:42 AM
I can't help it but that one taller flower is distracting me. Otherwise this is a great shot!
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04/22/2003 07:39:27 AM
I had to look hard to find anything negative here....this is just such a good shot. The horizion is not straight and that is a bit of a bother. Other then that one small remark....this is so good. Lush red.
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04/21/2003 11:10:02 PM
What an amazing sight to see! I wish there was these kind of fields in Australia! Very impressive.
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04/21/2003 08:19:34 PM
The reds are always the brightest.
04/21/2003 07:08:05 PM
the green is wonderful, but the red is a little saturated. i like the forground diagonal lines and think that the mid to background levelness adds to the pic.
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04/21/2003 05:41:18 PM
Repetitiveness makes this photo... at first I was thinking it was too centered but when I looked at the whole photo I kind of like it that way... Nice colors and good use of DOF.
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04/21/2003 05:25:14 PM
Very nice shot, although it does not look like a real natural setting.. maybe you are in holland?
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04/21/2003 07:28:22 AM
Pretty
04/20/2003 09:00:09 PM
I am curious where you shot your tulips... they are gorgeous.


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