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Challenge: Rule of Thirds III (Basic Editing)
Camera: Kodak Z650
Location: My house
Date: Apr 21, 2007
Aperture: 3.3
ISO: 80
Shutter: 1/200
Galleries: Abstract, Macro
Date Uploaded: Apr 22, 2007

Peacock feather under a macro filter. I only ajusted the levels and contrast a little bit in photoshop and added a plain black boarder.

Statistics
Place: 317 out of 380
Avg (all users): 4.8957
Avg (commenters): 5.5000
Avg (participants): 4.6667
Avg (non-participants): 5.1220
Views since voting: 787
Views during voting: 260
Votes: 163
Comments: 7
Favorites: 0


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05/04/2007 06:19:28 PM
Greetings from the Critique Club

My first impression from this picture is the abstractness of this picture. While very appealing, it is difficult to find the rule of thirds aspect in this picture. With your use of depth of field, this picture meets the challenge, but in an abstract way that is not obvious when looked at during voting. I believe this may have hurt you in the voting process. Should this have been an abstract macro, this would have likely done much better.

Technically, there is little to fault with the picture as I believe the use of the macro filter has done its job.

I like the use of a shallow depth of field in this, and I hope you will use your macro filter more!

On a whole, the picture is a bit dark. While it creates an interesting mood, I do not know if that is what you intended. In general, DPC voters tend to not prefer moddy, darker photos, and tend to the 'eye candy' photos.

The other thing I noticed is it seems a touch oversharpened, though you do not list it in your processing steps.

If you have any questions, feel free to pm me

Cheers
pidge
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
04/29/2007 05:58:24 PM
Well not bad really but nothing about the composition is telling my eye where to rest or guiding it anywhere and thus it stops nowhere, I find this image a bit busy and while I normally love shallow DOF, it just adds to that problem this time.
04/27/2007 03:24:39 PM
very pretty, but I'm not seeing an apparent rule of thirds here. do you mean the focus? I'll assume so for voting sake.
04/25/2007 04:58:13 AM
not sure I understand where you applied the rule of thirds here...
04/24/2007 11:30:54 PM
Love it. Was looking through the thumbnails and this one out of the half of them I'd seen already was the only one that caught my eye.. and it does a great job of living up to the expectation. I love the combination of colors as well as the sharp focus in parts and soft focus in others.
04/24/2007 09:21:58 PM
peacock? "9"
04/24/2007 09:12:11 PM
Where's the thirds?


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