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04/23/2008 03:37:09 PM |
| wish the center was in focus....love the contrast (green and gray) |
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04/22/2008 01:06:08 PM |
overgrown, tangled, a forest, a quiet spot - the twisted angles of life - a cool perspective shot for a side challenge.
the limits of p&s cameras often are the poor choices of DOF and exposure - here the bottom half of the image is well exposed and the top is blown |
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04/21/2008 08:55:22 PM |
| Very much like the contrast between the rich greeny green of the nettle and the almost desaturated mossy limey greens of the background. (And the blue greens of the daffy strappy leaves,maybe). And I think you have a good idea in the in-your-face (ouch!) of the nettles backgrounded by the definition of the trees. However I agree with most comments that it could do with some realignment. |
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04/21/2008 08:49:37 PM |
Nice POV, to show off the plant in the foreground. In the thumb, I was expecting to open a jungle or tropical island scene.
I have found for shots like this, to point the camera lens at the closest item, which would be the leaves in the foreground, then half push the shutter until it focuses, then rotate the camera to shooting position without releasing the shutter button. That way, the focus will be locked on the nearest object, so the foreground will be in sharper focus. |
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04/21/2008 06:34:14 PM |
| Lots of detail in the branches. Nice! Maybe a crop of some of the big leaves at the bottom seems to get rid of the distractions and, to me, makes it peaceful and serene. |
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04/21/2008 06:13:33 PM |
| I would prefer to have the plant in focus and everything behind it OOF. A better sky would have given this more impact, but we can't control what the sky is going to look like they day we take our pictures. |
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04/21/2008 02:07:03 PM |
| I follow your idea OK, it doesn't come thru in the finished product, alas. It needs more interesting light in the BG, more shadows, less saturation, less subject in FG. You know, you might like to try something out that I enjoy--shooting blind. Line up the focal plane of the camera parallel to the area of the subject you want to be most in focus, without looking at the viewfinder. You can tilt the camera left/right & up/down. Look at the camera, look at the subject, but don't look at the LCD or the viewfinder. The trick is to listen for the sound your camera makes when it's OK to shoot (& know the sound it makes when it's not OK to shoot, too). You can place your camera right on the ground or over your head--lots of places you could never get your eye behind the camera for! |
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04/21/2008 09:35:24 AM |
| I think you achieved the effect you wanted, it does look like an eye view from the ground up. I think that because it's so green and interesting, people want to see more details in that. |
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04/21/2008 07:23:14 AM |
| I think maybe if your lens was even closer to the foreground plant and we didn't see as much of it your desired effect may have been more readable. Because the plant is so centered it looks like that is the subject and out of focus. However, I think I "got" what you were going for before reading your comments. |
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04/21/2008 07:20:57 AM |
| I'm not a great fan of foreground blur(bokeh). This has more than half the image OOF, but it has a nice DOF. I would prefer to see less of the nettle and more of the woods, or have the focus reversed -- sharp nettle and soft woods. Of course that is just my particular taste. Nice color, and overall it makes me feel like a hobbit, or small woodland animal because of the low perspective. And one thing I noticed about the composition: the vertical lines of the trees and the nettle stem cut the image in half and seem to block my ability to enter and explore the image. I'd like to see this same scene from a slightly different position -- moving the camera a little to the right. I think that would allow the nettle to frame the left side of the image, and the trees would be offset to the right third. (or try the opposite, moving a little to the left.) |
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04/21/2008 07:09:31 AM |
| Thats what I was going for :) I wanted to make the viewer appear that they were looking out from under the Nettle .... I guess it didn't really have the desired effect, lol |
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04/21/2008 07:07:33 AM |
| The focus is a bit off and I am not quite sure which is your focal point! |
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04/21/2008 07:04:57 AM |
| i think you missed the focus, mate! my eye keeps wanting to look at the plant in the foreground but its out of focus. the tree in the back seems to be focused instead. |
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