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Winter Berries
Winter Berries
MaryO


Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Six (Advanced Editing VII*)
Collection: Flowers and Bugs
Camera: Nikon D200
Lens: Sigma 100-300mm F/4.0 EX IF HSM for Nikon
Location: Alexandria, VA
Date: Jan 18, 2008
Aperture: f/5.6
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/320
Galleries: Nature, Floral
Date Uploaded: Jan 18, 2008

 Did barely anything to these. It was tough to find exactly 6 with no distracting things, but I am proud to say I did not remove or add any berries to get this image!

Looking at the speed this should not have turned out as well as it did. A little slow for a handheld shot with that lens.

PP - converted from Raw, cropped, levels, increased saturation on berries, added border, resized, sharpened with noise reduction.

Statistics
Place: 56 out of 134
Avg (all users): 5.6209
Avg (commenters): 6.7143
Avg (participants): 5.5636
Avg (non-participants): 5.6457
Views since voting: 824
Views during voting: 278
Votes: 182
Comments: 10
Favorites: 1 (view)

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AuthorThread
 01/28/2008 04:33:15 AM
The sun's relection upon the berries top is great for the value of the photograph.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
01/27/2008 10:45:00 AM
hmmm.....where have i seen these before!!!!
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 01/25/2008 08:49:04 AM
Nice contrast!
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 01/24/2008 09:54:01 AM
excellent control of DOF here - the smooth background so nicely offsets the sharpness of the twig with the berries
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 01/24/2008 01:55:48 AM
Nice DOF, ncie colours too. As a personal preference I would have liked the background to be darker to bring out the colours more and complement the reds more too. As it is, the brown looks a bit murky and doesn't help things.

Also, the sharpest bit in the image isn;t the berries it's that little leaf where the twigs converge which draws my eye to it.

It's a good image, just nto a great one.
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 01/22/2008 06:45:04 PM
Nice colors and DOF. I would like to see a bit tighter crop and all the berries in focus.
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 01/22/2008 04:19:29 PM
Pleasing bokeh. Nice work.
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 01/21/2008 09:33:24 AM
very nice
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 01/21/2008 05:37:38 AM
Good composition and bokeh. I like the brightness of the red berries.
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 01/20/2008 07:43:29 PM
nice bokeh in the lens...nice and simple
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