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Flower Bath
Flower Bath
Paul837

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Challenge: Nude IV (Advanced Editing V)
Camera: Canon EOS-30D
Lens: Canon EF-S 17-85mm f/4-5.6 IS USM
Location: Bathtub
Date: Jan 26, 2007
Aperture: 11
ISO: 100
Shutter: 125
Galleries: Portraiture, Nude
Date Uploaded: Jan 27, 2007

Crop, Noise Ninja, USM, Convert Layer to B/W and Mask

Statistics
Place: 63 out of 121
Avg (all users): 5.6231
Avg (commenters): 6.0435
Avg (participants): 5.1548
Avg (non-participants): 5.7280
Views since voting: 6738
Views during voting: 1236
Votes: 459
Comments: 31
Favorites: 1 (view)


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02/10/2007 03:41:50 PM
*Critique Club*

"Flower Bath" is a good entry into the Nude IV challenge. I think you did a very good job at being creative and taking a different path from the norm.

Overall I think this is a very pleasing image, and I really love the flowers. The coloring of the flowers is bright but very mellow. Its amazing how unreal the flowers look, but the image still looks natural. I also think her eyes have a prefect glow and draw the viewer in. I can easily see the shot hanging in a bathroom. The editing that you did not great, I don't think the shot is over processed. It was interesting on some of the comments how this shot is too sweet, really makes you wonder about the world we are living.

I can see that you have only done a couple of challenges but you look like you have a great balance of creativity and photography skills. I really look forward to see what you produce in the future.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
02/04/2007 06:23:13 PM
I love how fake this looks. Great effect. 8
02/04/2007 04:13:54 PM
5
02/04/2007 03:49:41 PM
lovely!
02/03/2007 04:26:07 PM
too soft
02/02/2007 04:18:32 PM
this is just a bit saccharin for my taste.
02/02/2007 10:24:02 AM
looks very good technically, but a bit too sweet for my taste ;)
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02/02/2007 09:17:47 AM
I like this one very much, the use of the bubbles and flower petals works well. Beautiful model. Good luck.
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02/01/2007 03:14:45 PM
A sweet and simple nude... almost cliche'... I'm not a fan of the selective desaturation in this case.
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02/01/2007 04:05:49 AM
beautifull...8 if i could vote
01/31/2007 04:28:16 PM
oof
01/31/2007 12:30:07 PM
Wonderful picture! Beautiful model and nice soft lighting. The flowers are a nice touch, but the partial desaturation doesn't look good around the flowers. 7
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01/31/2007 09:48:27 AM
looks very un-natural
01/30/2007 11:45:29 PM
color treatment looks weird, had not overly saturated the flowers. cushion is very distracting
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01/30/2007 02:58:05 PM
Original! I like the partial desat. Should do well. Good luck.
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01/30/2007 02:00:19 PM
Good idea. The whole thing is just too overprosessed for me. She dosen't look natural.
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01/30/2007 07:24:20 AM
Flowers look great, but the background colour seems to clash a bit.
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01/29/2007 07:31:00 PM
Looks over-processed to me, or maybe the focus was off by a bit since her face looks soft but the pillow looks sharp. Also the orange-red of the flowers clashes with the maroon-red background.
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01/29/2007 03:23:28 PM
i like the colors and the happiness in her face... she looks very comfortable!
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01/29/2007 09:48:04 AM
scores high because of the models happy interction with the viewer, she looks as if she is happy 9 good idea as well
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01/29/2007 06:40:59 AM
like the lighting here, and the way the flowers pop - 8
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01/29/2007 06:27:24 AM
Subject looks a little washed out ( no pun intended )
Nice idea though.
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01/29/2007 04:56:11 AM
very creative...i like the use of colors
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01/29/2007 03:35:17 AM
I like the skin tone and colors, but the flowers dosent fit in at all i think. They looked to edited.
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01/29/2007 03:23:00 AM
Very nice
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01/29/2007 01:44:47 AM
Sensuous, inviting. I'm not usually a fan of soft focus but it works here.
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01/29/2007 12:26:27 AM
looks very pleasant.
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01/28/2007 10:45:41 PM
Nice...great smile
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01/28/2007 09:50:50 PM
I like the colors and softness of the light. The flowers look a little too bright though, and they pull some attention away from the subject. I think the eyes and hair of the model look great.
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01/28/2007 09:03:58 PM
Great smile, wonderful PP- like the contrast of flowers, they immediately catch the attention ( not more than the model though)
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01/28/2007 07:29:41 PM
Interestingly done...

The color processing creates a feel of layers. It's odd, almost in a weird 2-dimensional 3D
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