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Challenge: Flora (Classic Editing)
Collection: Outdoors
Camera: Canon EOS-10D
Location: Bardoni Park
Date: Apr 18, 2003
Galleries: Nature, Macro
Date Uploaded: Apr 20, 2003

 In a field in Washington, DC. Canon EF 50mm Macro Lens. Overcast sky.

Statistics
Place: 10 out of 139
Avg (all users): 6.6115
Avg (commenters): 7.5455
Avg (participants): 6.4851
Avg (non-participants): 6.9474
Views since voting: 1932
Votes: 139
Comments: 41
Favorites: 2 (view)

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 05/03/2003 05:06:19 PM
Damn. this is really good
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 04/29/2003 09:30:39 AM
Hey mag. Great shot. I love it!!! The colors are extreme. Love the focus and lighting.
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 04/28/2003 04:04:47 PM
Great photo mag :) I love the color, very vibrant and well managed.
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 04/28/2003 07:50:14 AM
thanks to all :) ..
 04/27/2003 09:21:22 PM
this is a stunning photo, mag, and one of the very few 10's i gave. shoulda been a ribbon winner.
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 04/27/2003 08:04:55 PM
That's a great picture, magnetic. Congrats. To be honest, i smelled a good Canon here - thought it was by the new Dutch user with his 1D. The dof you can get with the 10D, D60, and 1D is just incredible.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
04/27/2003 07:27:14 PM
The most unique tulips photo I've seen so far in this challenge (and I have just over 30 minutes to vote on about 50 photos...). I love the way you used selective focus to make that one flower stand out from all the rest. 10 from me!
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 04/27/2003 07:11:02 PM
good color mixture
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 04/27/2003 04:46:04 PM
Wonderful picture, but the focal point I believe is in the wrong point. I would have preffered to see it on the red flower as that is generally where the eyes go to first to that position. There seem to be too much space between the foreground purple flower and the red flower. Love the colors though! Has this been retouched?
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 04/27/2003 02:50:09 AM
Selective focus and color really make this pop! Wonderful.
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 04/26/2003 04:28:51 PM
Very nice color. We have a tulip festival here in Holland,MI. Was that where this was taken? I like how you have the one in the front in focus, and the background nicely blurred. the angle and framing/cropping are great. I like how the front one is in the bottom left and the flowers get more frequesnt the farther into the photo they go. Great color! ~Heather~
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 04/26/2003 01:49:55 AM
very nice - fab colours 10
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 04/25/2003 12:55:34 PM
Very colorful. I like the arrangement and the single "black" tulip in focus. Very nice work. Easy 9. Rob the Swash
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 04/25/2003 05:02:06 AM
Man you really brought those colors out well! This is a beautiful pic and the shallow DOF works particularly well here, choice!
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 04/25/2003 12:34:01 AM
The colors on this are great. I like the way you lead with the one blue one in the very front, but why not the yellow one? The blue one just seems a little small, not that I hate blue or anything. Good luck!
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 04/24/2003 11:54:46 AM
Gorgeous, gorgeous, gorgeous! I love the two front flowers, purple and its complimentary yellow. That purple tulip is so alive. Dof is superb. And so are the colors, they are warm, rich, and lively and none of them clash. 10 Journey
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 04/24/2003 10:09:50 AM
What a perfect choice to have just the one purple tulip in focus!! It is a beauty.
I love the colors. I especially like the lighting on the purple tulip. Perfectly done.
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 04/24/2003 04:02:16 AM
Pretty colours. Nice shot.
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 04/22/2003 08:09:35 PM
Nice color. Great subject seperation. You stayed with the theme and definition of flora, and not some store bought prop or studio photo. Nice shot!
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 04/22/2003 07:35:37 PM
The colors are beautiful, but I really would rather see more of them in focus. The purple one up front is real fine.
 04/22/2003 07:17:46 PM
interesting composition. i like the color, even though ive not seen purple tulips before. i wouldn't have thougt about having just one in focus. thanks for the headsup. very nice
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 04/22/2003 05:17:05 PM
I would have preferred the purple flower in focus be more toward the middle of the photo.
 04/22/2003 04:25:59 PM
phenomenal focus and use of shallow depth of field... this flower is pristinely sharp :) - setzler
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 04/22/2003 12:17:36 PM
I really like the colours you've managed to capture here, but I would have prefered the in focus flower just a tad bit higher in the frame.
 04/22/2003 10:34:58 AM
This is the best tulip shot of the contest, imo. Beautiful color scheme, perfect exposure, good choice on where to place your focus and balance it with a short dof. The overall image really conveys the feeling of being in a field of tulips in Holland. Congrats! 10
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 04/22/2003 07:18:08 AM
The colors here look like a Kodak or Fuji commercial. Fantastic. I do think the focus is a little soft, maybe more dof for something like this. The background here is something we want to see more of. Great color.
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 04/22/2003 07:14:14 AM
Wouldn't it be more eye-catching if the subject is the centre, the red one in the middle is a big eye sore. nice composition and colours.
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 04/22/2003 06:56:45 AM
I think maybe it would have been better if the focus point was a little higher in the picture. As it is, my eye has to hunt for it. Very pretty though. Love the colors.
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 04/22/2003 03:25:42 AM
Nice Photo, but my instinct tells me it would have been better to have the center red tulip in focus instead of the purple in the foreground?? Still a very nice photo with excellent colors. Good Job
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 04/22/2003 03:16:44 AM
Very nice use of shallow DOF. Really brings attention to the front flower. Excellent. 9 Jacko.
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 04/22/2003 02:45:13 AM
A beautiful spring shot. Excellent use of color.
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 04/21/2003 11:13:25 PM
I like the varity in color for this tulip entry. This works well with the lighting and compositionl
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 04/21/2003 05:57:28 PM
gorgeous! the DOF is wonderful and the colors are amazing. this is a winner!
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 04/21/2003 05:32:00 PM
LOVE how the one in the left hand corner is the only flower in focus, this makes the photo more interesting then everything being in focus... I wish you would have gotten down a little more but this is still a cool photo. Very colorful and pretty... nice job... I wouls have maybe cropped some off the top to the top of the second red tulip but still a very nice photo!
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 04/21/2003 05:29:42 PM
Lovely, was looking for more natural shots for this challenge, though. 8 based on quality of photo.
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 04/21/2003 01:12:40 PM
Very interesting to have only that one flower in focus. Would work better if that one purple flower were against just green - no yellow and red sharing the foreground. Even then, I'm not sure it holds together as a composition for me. Neat idea though.
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 04/21/2003 07:03:29 AM
Very pretty.
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 04/21/2003 06:35:11 AM
good use of shallow DoF, great colours, lovely framing. Good entry.
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 04/21/2003 05:44:59 AM
WONDERFUL color and DOF !!!
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 04/20/2003 11:08:43 PM
Amazing set of colors in this shot.
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 04/20/2003 09:04:42 PM
The purple flower is beautiful and I like the sharp focus on it but the other out of focus flowers are distracting.


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