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Creeping Beauty
Creeping Beauty
pncowley


Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Secondary Colors (Classic Editing)
Camera: Konica KD-400Z
Location: Nibley, Utah
Date: May 10, 2003
Aperture: f4.7
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/2000
Galleries: Nature, Macro
Date Uploaded: May 13, 2003

 Well... I think I got them all in there! :-)

While gardening this past Saturday (and contemplating the challenge :-) I noticed that the creeping phlox I had just weeded were absolutely gorgeous... and voila!

Technical:
Taken without a tripod :-( since I don't own one under natural light. Fortunately, the lighting was bright enough for a short exposure. Minor crop to help the composition, and a bit of adjustment to contrast and hue/saturation/lightness, and USM at .75/100/15.

Statistics
Place: 145 out of 225
Avg (all users): 4.7654
Avg (commenters): 5.0000
Avg (participants): 4.5700
Avg (non-participants): 5.0127
Views since voting: 798
Votes: 179
Comments: 3
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 05/26/2003 04:40:45 PM
Greetings from the Critique Club
By Inspzil

Composition - I think this one suffered from the colors you chose for the composition. Not the traditional orange, green, and violet that we have all grown accustomed to as our "secondary colors". I am in agreement with the masses here though. The overwhelming pink is hard to overlook in such a challenge. I gotta say the pink flowers look rather fake, whether they are or not. They seem very regular, kind of stiff too. The green part of them also looks artificial.

Technical - I'm surprised the DOF is so shallow at f4.7. Maybe if you were around f8 with a slower shutter you could've gotten the same exposure values with more DOF. You didn't use a tripod nor do I think it was very necessary. The shutter was plenty fast enough to accomodate in this situation. The focus on the front stuff is pretty good, but there is so much more to this picture where the focus is inherent due to the placement of the other flowers.

Overall - You didn't get much help on this one in the comments, that's for sure. I think that the shallow DOF and the choices of colors in this picture resulted in the low score. If the flocks were purple, it might've been an easier sell to the viewers. Purple and green would've been a nice combo for this challenge. It's not a poorly taken picture, but there are elements of it that I think could be improved. As I look at the picture one last time, I think you probably could've cropped some more of the dirt out of the bottom to make the whole thing a little more colorful. Sorry this didn't work out so well from you. Hope I could be at least a little help since your comments didn't do much for you. Good luck in the future. - Inspzil
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
05/17/2003 08:45:03 PM
nice angle and good texture..... the bottom third of the photo sets you apart from all the other flower shots.... good luck
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 05/15/2003 01:49:35 PM
Colors look a little muddy
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