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Challenge: Environmental Portrait (Advanced Editing IV)
Camera: Olympus C-5050Z
Location: Lake Bluff, IL
Date: May 8, 2006
Aperture: 2.6
ISO: 64
Shutter: 1/200
Galleries: Floral
Date Uploaded: May 8, 2006

 Tulip found outside church while shooting for Holy challenge. Only one that really still had it's shape and colors intact.
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Ok just to clear the air and everyone thinking I'm a total idiot and don't know what a portrait is...which I do.

I was shooting for the Holy challenge and while uploading my image (which was later pulled becuase I thought it was too plain) I saw the environmental portrait challenge and decided I would enter this image. Well I saw "environmental portrait" details, read a little of one post about it and just thought portrait of something in it's natural enviroment...never did I stop to think about the actual meaning of portrait being of a person or read more about it. I get tired of all the thread debating what the details mean so I don't usually pay a lot of attention to them...guess I should have.

This is my lowest score ever and while it did deserve it due to not following all the details I do wish so many had not discussed it as if I was an idiot during the challenge. I had commented in the threads more than once that I had a DNMC entry by mistake and had even considered self-DQ but still the comments about flowers not being a portrait continued.

On the plus side my (worse quality) self-portrait is doing better than any I've ever submitted and had I thought of it earlier it would have been executed better and probaby scored even higher.

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 05/22/2006 11:40:52 PM
Nice shot , really sharp and good focuss on the flower pitty its on the last page keep up the good work
 Comments Made During the Challenge
05/19/2006 01:43:18 PM
IMO a portrait should include a person (or perhaps an animal). Even if this was to be a portrait of a flower its environement has not been included. As for the shot itself, I think different lighting could have added interest.
 05/18/2006 08:53:57 AM
I'm sure you are being hammered by DNMC comments. I find the flwoer lacking a bit in clarity. It's just a touch to soft for me. Nice use of bokeh
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 05/17/2006 02:44:57 AM
And this meets the challenge because?????

Photograph a portrait that says something about the subject within the framework of their own environment.
 05/16/2006 09:13:30 AM
IMHO, DNMC
 05/15/2006 09:42:07 AM
Not a portrait sooo long away from the challenge....
 05/15/2006 07:29:23 AM
Portrait of a flower??? Nice though...
 05/15/2006 05:56:55 AM
not a portrait
 05/15/2006 04:44:18 AM
not a portrait in my eyes
 05/15/2006 01:54:22 AM
portrait?


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