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Tulips on Blue
Tulips on Blue
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Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Off-Centered Subject II (Advanced Editing IV)
Camera: Fujifilm FinePix S7000
Location: Philadelphia, PA
Date: Jan 28, 2006
Aperture: f/ 8.0
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/12 sec.
Galleries: Still Life, Floral
Date Uploaded: Jan 29, 2006

 Not my first choice, but I had focus problems with the other for Off-centered. You may see it elsewhere centered.
The tulips were in a vase in naturally, as tulips do, drooped in all directions. Shot the ones on the right side of the vase. Composition...eh...well almost.
Post: Open. Rotate. Layer adjustments for levels, brightness and contrast and hue/saturation. Healed some dust particles in the background as well as some lines in the poster board. Cloned out a very small portion of another tulip who decided to try to get in the shot on the upper left. Neat Image, a small dose, did not want lose too much detail. Healed some more dust and some hot pixels. Sharpen. Resize. Sharpen.
Oh...and the background was blue poster board. From Me? Can you imagine.

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Post: Well now you know why I usually use a black background! A lot less noise to deal with. I made a last minute decision to go with this and just did not have enough time to process the background separately with another dose of NI. Oh well.

Statistics
Place: 45 out of 357
Avg (all users): 6.1667
Avg (commenters): 7.4444
Avg (participants): 6.0000
Avg (non-participants): 6.4697
Views since voting: 1441
Views during voting: 252
Votes: 186
Comments: 11
Favorites: 2 (view)

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AuthorThread
 02/06/2006 06:32:24 PM
RoB, you beat me by .001! I think the noise did hurt you a bit here. The black backgrounds, I feel, offer a more striking look. But, what do I know, I did worse than you in this challenge so I should keep quiet. :)
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 02/06/2006 12:19:22 AM
oh, RoB! if this doesn't speak volumes about black backgrounds! i'm bookmarking this shot for the next debate ;-)
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
02/05/2006 06:48:30 PM
Great floral presentation. 7
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 02/05/2006 03:00:46 AM
Fantastic color here. Like how you used complimentary colors. The focus is right on. Lighting is a bit harsh on the top flower but not overpowering, it just takes from the softness. Excellent.
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 02/04/2006 06:48:56 PM
Rich colors. Super sharp. Fun and vivid composition.
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 02/03/2006 06:15:51 AM
pretty colors
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 01/31/2006 12:45:22 PM
I like the pic but there seems to be a lot of noise in the blue area.
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 01/30/2006 03:25:45 PM
I really like the colors and the composition on this. However the blue in the background looks noisey. Not sure if that was intentional or not, however I think it takes away from the photo.
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 01/30/2006 07:17:39 AM
Very pretty light and colors...nicely done.
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 01/29/2006 08:28:03 PM
amazing colours and great choice for the blue...the wall looks very grainy...is that on purpose?
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 01/29/2006 07:09:27 PM
Gorgeous. I never tire of a beautiful bouquet as tack sharp as this. WOW 10
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