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A Day Of Monet
A Day Of Monet
molliefestus


Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Best of 2006 (Advanced Editing V*)
Camera: Canon EOS-350D Rebel XT
Lens: Canon EF 24-105mm f/4.0L IS
Location: Knoxville, Tennessee, Anchor Park
Date: Sep 29, 2006
Aperture: f/5.6
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/250
Galleries: Still Life, Floral
Date Uploaded: Jan 6, 2007

Beautiful field of wildflowers in eastern Tennessee, taken in early fall. This is my homage to the impressionist artist, Claude Oscar Monet, 1840-1926. He was brilliant in his art! Although my entry does not touch the surface of doing him any justice at all, I saw this scene and immediately thought of his work, which is one of my inspirations in photography, using this particular perspective and DOF on many of my photos...

Statistics
Place: 421 out of 712
Avg (all users): 5.6063
Avg (commenters): 6.7308
Avg (participants): 5.5405
Avg (non-participants): 5.7978
Views since voting: 744
Views during voting: 480
Votes: 348
Comments: 26
Favorites: 3 (view)


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 Comments Made During the Challenge
01/24/2007 10:41:27 PM
Love the colors of this one, and the image so suits the title.....
01/24/2007 06:43:38 PM
The background is very pretty. The foreground is boring, IMO. 5
01/24/2007 05:27:49 PM
very nice, indeed.
01/23/2007 06:09:42 PM
You certainly got the background bokeh to appear just like his painting style.
Well done!
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01/23/2007 10:03:56 AM
I love the background, but it seems that the flowers could have been placed a bit better within the frame. It almost feels like you were holding the camera with one hand and the flowers with the other. Maybe if there were more cropped off the left, or if the flowers were at a steeper angle to the corner of the shot, it would feel a bit more natural.
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01/22/2007 08:37:57 AM
Great background, you are right, it does look like Monet. Well done.
01/20/2007 09:36:43 AM
excellent sharpness, colors, brightness, and folowing rule of thirds....8
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01/19/2007 10:55:43 AM
Beautiful Bokeh, nice DOF
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01/19/2007 08:09:40 AM
Beautiful work! It does look very Monet!
01/18/2007 08:58:31 AM
The background here is fabulous; if the foreground flowers were more interesting this could be a 10. I gave it a 7 as is. Very nice.
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01/16/2007 06:51:28 AM
I like the background, the subject looks over sharpened though.
01/16/2007 01:47:15 AM
this is awesome! really Monet
01/15/2007 10:35:42 AM
The bokeh here is breathtaking.
01/15/2007 04:44:59 AM
nice classic ... really cool photo. 7
01/13/2007 03:46:28 PM
The flower in the foreground is a bit harsh. One way to adjust that is to hold a white sheet of paper over the subject (and out of the camera view) which will soften the light.
01/13/2007 01:50:51 PM
I think this idea is great with the background out of focus to create a nice wash of color. I can't quite pinpoint it, but something about the colors seems a bit off. I'm wondering if the in-camera white balance got tricked by shadows or shade from a passing cloud. I wonder if this shot might look great with selective desaturation.
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01/13/2007 04:05:20 AM
Love the background however I think a your foreground subject is letting this image down. What might work better is to not have so much of it in the frame and increase the DOF ever so slightly to create more definition in the background.
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01/12/2007 07:14:53 PM
Beautiful.
01/12/2007 10:37:39 AM
Wow, VERY Monet! Love the colours.
01/12/2007 10:05:07 AM
Sweet DOF :D
01/12/2007 10:03:32 AM
I think this would have been better if you got in tighter to the flower with the DOF keeping the background in pastels like you have.
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01/12/2007 04:20:01 AM
very appropriate title...good work!
01/12/2007 04:18:00 AM
The longer I look at it, the more I like it - the colors are beautiful.8
01/12/2007 03:16:43 AM
Good bokeh very monet like
01/11/2007 08:41:14 PM
I love the title. It fits well with the shot. Very nice capture over-all.
01/11/2007 07:30:21 PM
The DOF sells this. Spectacular.
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