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The Mustard Field
The Mustard Field
FotoMunki


Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Yellow III (Advanced Editing IV)
Camera: Canon EOS-20D
Lens: Canon EF 17-40mm f/4L USM
Location: Sunnyvale, CA
Date: Apr 2, 2006
Aperture: f/7.1
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/125
Galleries: Emotive, Portraiture
Date Uploaded: Apr 2, 2006

 Wow, thanks for all the votes and comments! It's great to be on the front page after a couple of near misses in the last few challenges (13th & 12th)! My daughter will be VERY excited when she hears the news in the morning - we have been watching the stats every night.

Statistics
Place: 10 out of 404
Avg (all users): 6.5628
Avg (commenters): 7.4444
Avg (participants): 6.5971
Avg (non-participants): 6.4545
Views since voting: 2448
Views during voting: 279
Votes: 183
Comments: 29
Favorites: 6 (view)

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 04/16/2006 07:28:06 PM
Sweet, charming and radiating such peace and goodwill with innocence as the messenger. Congratulations on your top 10 finish.
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 04/10/2006 11:47:56 AM
Congratulations on your top 10 finish. A wonderful capture!
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 04/10/2006 04:51:16 AM
Top 10 - CONGRATS!!!
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 04/10/2006 04:23:28 AM
Just perfect, congrats.
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 04/10/2006 04:01:39 AM
Congratulations! this should have won IMHO! great evocative shot!
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 04/09/2006 11:50:38 PM
Amazing picture...a dream setting for me. You captured the scene so perfectly. A fave.
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 04/09/2006 10:51:43 PM
Great job Mark! This is a wonderful photo and IMO should have placed higher!! :-)
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 04/09/2006 10:14:04 PM
nice !
congrats

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 04/09/2006 10:09:22 PM
Congratulations! We were close, weren't we? Both in scores and scenery :) lovely shot!
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 04/09/2006 08:47:29 PM
Congratulations on your placement, and this fantastic image. Into my favs!
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
04/09/2006 06:42:53 PM
Very nice. Should do well.
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 04/09/2006 01:08:06 PM
sweet!
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 04/07/2006 03:33:16 PM
I like the shallow depth of field, but would prefer it to be more natural with a gradual transition from the plane of sharpness to the out of focus elements. Otherwise a very nice image.
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 04/07/2006 02:50:45 PM
I love it! The coloring is great (though I wish the light on the floral aspects was a smidge brighter), great composition, nice concept. I think the umbrella is a bit too busy and it seems to be competing too much with the busy-ness of the mustard blossoms. I really like how you've made your little model stand out so well from the background with the very crisp focus. How did you manage that while having a uniform soft focus everywhere else? I do wish there was a bit of fill light on the girl's face, but that's not a huge deal. 7
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 04/07/2006 02:25:25 PM
This is great, but I think that she should have been a bigger part of the image. Perhaps cut in portrait?
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 04/07/2006 12:23:55 PM
Awesome dof. Blue works so good with that yellow. Good composition. Love it. 9
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 04/06/2006 08:36:52 PM
wonderful model... the colors in her umbrella are perfect..
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 04/05/2006 05:37:30 PM
My choice for ribbon so far--great shot. A little tight on the left, and it looks like you selectively blurred the flowers. But I think the natural DOF would have looked better. You didn't need to bring her out that way.
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 04/05/2006 05:21:47 PM
Great idea and well composed. It looks a bit busy around the girl... I think perhaps a simpler wardrobe and simpler umbrella with no pattern would've had a better impact.
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 04/04/2006 11:21:46 AM
Sweet, would have liked to see the focus on the flowers a little more, it's seems kind of blurred this way, still a lovely setting..
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 04/04/2006 05:53:06 AM
A lovely shot of a young girl in a meadow full of flowers in full bloom. The picture speaks of springtime and is very endearing. Focus on your main subject is good. The little girl is in sharp focus and we can clearly see the features of her sweet face and her hands. The umbrella is a nice addition but the teddy bear textures are a tad distracting for the pattern on the umbrella competes with the patterned texture of the field of flowers. In the eye of this viewer those patterns clash and they do not compliment each other. A solid color or two-tone pattern on the umbrella would be less distracting for the composition and more complimentary to the surroundings. Lastly, the field of flowers that radiate away from your focused subject (the little girl) could be in sharper focus as well - perhaps a smaller aperature setting (8 to 16) would increase the depth of field and bring everything into sharper focus.
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 04/04/2006 05:52:50 AM
This a very cool photograph, it just seems like a fairy tale or storybook come to life! Very well done!
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 04/03/2006 08:25:43 PM
I think the DOF is done in PP and I don't like it. A nice shot though otherwise. 6
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 04/03/2006 11:36:44 AM
i like this, but the depth of field looks wierd. all of the flowers in the same plane as the girl should also be sharp. still, it's a nice idea. :)
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 04/03/2006 10:07:29 AM
Very nice. I'd like to see it without the flowers blurred as well to see which way I prefer. But this is well done.
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 04/03/2006 02:57:30 AM
Cute.....
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 04/02/2006 09:39:13 PM
Beautiful shot. Nothing much more to say than that.
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 04/02/2006 09:16:05 PM
Lovely idea. I thought of doing the same one but I'm glad I didn't enter it. Yours is way better. Good luck ;)
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 04/02/2006 08:41:17 PM
This one should be put up for sale - I'm sure there will be takers. Beautiful image. Well done!
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