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Challenge: Pastels (Advanced Editing IV)
Camera: Canon EOS-350D Rebel XT
Lens: Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II
Location: Thomasville, Georgia, in a friends flower garden
Date: Sep 2, 2006
Aperture: 2.6
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/500
Galleries: Nature, Macro
Date Uploaded: Sep 3, 2006

I took this one yesterday in a friends butterflu garden. The bee was hard to focus on because it was so active. I took well over a hundred photos and was happy to get this one. This was my first time trying to get some photos that were so close up. I used my 50mm, so I had to be close enough to hear the bee buzzing in my ear, thus the title. I am learning manual, so used manual mode for all my photos.

Statistics
Place: 163 out of 203
Avg (all users): 4.9837
Avg (commenters): 5.0000
Avg (participants): 4.8358
Avg (non-participants): 5.0684
Views since voting: 636
Views during voting: 252
Votes: 184
Comments: 5
Favorites: 0


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09/16/2006 10:55:04 PM
Critique Club Review:

Nice shot.

Focus and depth of field are excellent. Excellent detail on the Bee coming in for a landing, and the flower as well.

Lighting, color, saturation, and hue are all done well.

The bare twigs on the right of the frame are a bit distracting.

What probably hurt you most on scores was that the greens in the plant are not seen by most people as pastels. What comes across as pastel is the three flowers, that make up a very small part of the picture. Since the eye naturally gravitates to the Bee, their effect is almost nil. Many voters here tend to place a high value on the challenge subject as they interpret it.

Still a very good photograph. One that I enjoy, and I'm sure would have score much higer in a different challenge.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
09/10/2006 12:05:38 PM
Beautiful photograph.
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09/04/2006 10:27:57 AM
Great capture, nice pastel tones on the flowers. Very sharp where it has to - the bee or whatever it is. Good job.
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09/04/2006 05:46:36 AM
nice
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09/04/2006 03:15:46 AM
nice image
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