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Fire Bush at fall
Fire Bush at fall
michelaudette


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Challenge: High Key (Advanced Editing VII)
Camera: Canon EOS-7D
Lens: Canon EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS
Location: Backyard
Date: Sep 18, 2010
Aperture: 9
ISO: 400
Shutter: 1/60
Galleries: Nature
Date Uploaded: Sep 18, 2010

 Bush in my backyard turning red as falls gets upon us.
I used a white background that I clip to other s bushes behind it. Used the long focal length to get the background blur... (white). Did over exposed by 1 stop.

Statistics
Place: 39 out of 97
Avg (all users): 5.6889
Avg (commenters): 9.0000
Avg (participants): 5.0698
Avg (non-participants): 5.9783
Views since voting: 761
Views during voting: 272
Votes: 135
Comments: 8
Favorites: 0

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 10/01/2010 01:52:38 PM
Hi! Welcome to your (very amateur!) critique.

My overall impression of this shot is that it should have done better. It is a beautiful concept, very well realised. I think that there are a couple of minor points which may have held it back.

Technically: Actually I don't really have anything to add. I suspect that your prep for the shot (with the white board) saved an awful lot of PP work.

Artistically: The colours are excellent, giving the whole a superb dreamy quality. The composition is quite strong, but I would probably have cropped the top all the way down to the top leaf - I am not sure that the white up there adds a lot. The white vignette also probably put some voters off. I can see that this might have been intended to add to the dream quality, but I am not sure it works. A hard white border might have been better.

PP: This could have been sharper, but I think you were right not to make it so. You would have lost some of that dream quality. What I would recommend is to use the freedom of advanced editing and clean up the edges - there are some odd yellow lines in the vignette which are distracting and a linear shadow bottom right which I would have dodged out - again it is distracting.

In summary, I like this. I didn't vote but would have gone for either a 6. With some of the details cleared up probably a 7. Nice one!
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 09/27/2010 05:31:38 AM
Thank you for the comments. 60%... I would have expected better.
 09/26/2010 11:18:04 PM
This was my favorite for a ribbon. Wonderful high key tones and composition.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
09/26/2010 06:20:31 PM
very good!
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 09/23/2010 01:57:40 AM
Gorgeous colours and translucency!
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 09/21/2010 02:23:52 PM
Excellent shot. The composition is great.
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 09/20/2010 10:47:09 AM
lovely
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 09/20/2010 04:38:00 AM
Awesome... I like the color. Most of the shots are bw or white on white so for me this stands out. good luck, hope to see this on the front page.10
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