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Challenge: Flowers II (Advanced Editing VII)
Collection: Portfolio
Camera: Canon EOS-5D
Lens: Canon EF 85mm f/1.8 USM
Date: Jul 12, 2009
Aperture: 8
ISO: 100
Galleries: Still Life, Floral
Date Uploaded: Jul 12, 2009

 Messed up on DOF, as the foreground petals should have been in focus.

light was a gelled speedlight(camera right) hitting a grey cloth BG and another speedlight lower right, set up to backlight the underside + white reflector to open up the shadows(camera left)

Statistics
Place: 11 out of 255
Avg (all users): 6.5664
Avg (commenters): 7.5556
Avg (participants): 6.4725
Avg (non-participants): 6.7308
Views since voting: 1689
Views during voting: 287
Votes: 143
Comments: 13
Favorites: 2 (view)

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AuthorThread
 07/21/2009 02:18:44 AM
Wow - excellent! Congrats on a great finish.
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 07/20/2009 04:39:29 AM
This is so pretty!

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 07/19/2009 10:55:36 PM
So close to a little star - severely underrated!
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
07/17/2009 02:19:25 PM
Nice use of lighting and gradiated background. Works well.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 07/16/2009 02:51:16 AM
Wonderful bokeh and light.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 07/15/2009 08:41:17 PM
love the flower head reaching out toward the orange glow of the sun...wonderful bokeh
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 07/14/2009 05:34:38 PM
Great light! Like the composition, too. The colors in the background really do make it look like the flower could be emitting heat, or turning towards it. I kind of want all the petals in focus since the ones on the side look so nice and sharp, but very nice overall.
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 07/14/2009 02:40:58 AM
nice use of color and lighting
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 07/13/2009 10:41:05 PM
reminds me of Ursula's work (that's a compliment, by the way) 10
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 07/13/2009 10:00:20 PM
How very gorgeous this is. The background is so soft and the backlighting just soft enough to illuminate the delicate edges. Beautiful curve leads your eyes right in. 10
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 07/13/2009 10:58:14 AM
Love the background in this, great job.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 07/13/2009 05:16:23 AM
SOOO pretty.
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 07/13/2009 02:43:25 AM
very good composition and lighting, I like how the gerber seems to bend towards the light on the background. Unfortunately the stem lost its natural color, could have been brought back in processing. This fact, the amount of sharpening artefacts (on the stem and in the bg) and the slight blur of the orange border lower my vote to 7.
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