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Challenge: Gold (Advanced Editing IV)
Collection: 2006 challenges
Camera: Samsung Digimax 201
Location: near Chesterville, Ontario
Date: Jul 17, 2006
Aperture: auto
ISO: auto
Shutter: auto
Galleries: Floral
Date Uploaded: Jul 21, 2006

Frantically wracking my brain for ideas for this challenge as of course any gold object I owned was jewellery...until, while driving down a country road, a field of sunflowers just burst into view.

Post-shoot tinkering: crop, adjust hue/saturation, brightness/contrast and sharpen.

Statistics
Place: 239 out of 296
Avg (all users): 4.7435
Avg (commenters): 5.6667
Avg (participants): 4.5526
Avg (non-participants): 5.0260
Views since voting: 1047
Views during voting: 253
Votes: 191
Comments: 4
Favorites: 0


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08/02/2006 10:30:21 PM
Hey there from the Critique Club

Looking through your portfolio, this is your best capture to date. It is far better than 4.7, but the image size is too small. Always, always, always, always us the full size parameters that DPC allows.

Camera Work/Technical: Your focus is spot on crisp, and your chosen white balance yielded very nice, strongly contrasting colors. I can almost feel the warmth of the scene with such vivid colors.

Lighting: Your lighting is one of the main image strengths. You did a fantastic job keeping highlight details while also exposing the shadows nicely.

Composition/Content: I like the overall composition of the image, as well as the way you shot the flowers from a side-front view rather than a straight on shot. My only complaint with the composition is that it feels very crowded at the top of the frame. I'd like to have seen this one backed out just a bit so that those petals weren't touch the top.

My Opinion: Again, this is my favorite shot in your portfolio, but the size of the image killed your score.

Eric
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
07/27/2006 06:01:44 PM
I love the yellow against the blue
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07/24/2006 12:49:56 PM
colours look very nice.
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07/23/2006 08:33:29 PM
Great Job!
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