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C/R |
Comment |
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Image |
| 12 |
Apr 17 |
Reply |
I think your version lets me keep the red area, which I happen to like and don't mind that the eye goes back and forth, but still keeps the main attention on the stamen. |
Apr 10th |
| 12 |
Apr 17 |
Comment |
A beautiful dying plant! Lovely backyard. The fallen petals still have a lovely color and are the main subject. So I cropped your image to try to tell the story without using so much of the area around it (which does set the scene but isn't really necessary for saying "past its prime"). I also darkened the backyard and the brick patio at the bottom left. That popped out the petals, I think. |
Apr 4th |
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| 12 |
Apr 17 |
Comment |
I'm so glad you photographed this scene before it is gone forever. It is a great documentary on what used to be. It's so interesting to see a place past its prime but still with all the items that were used there.
I like the way the light comes through the windows and hits the big table and all those items. My only suggestion is not to have the back wall be so bright. So in my suggested photo I darkened it a little and added a little dark vignette around the entire image. Just being nit-picky on a very fine image! (Hmm, I wonder if you know what I mean by nit-picky!) |
Apr 4th |
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| 12 |
Apr 17 |
Comment |
I've never seen such a pretty scene at a past-its-prime building! Those sharply in focus leaves look just beautiful against the old grungy texture. In fact, the texture is what everyone is trying to put ON their photos these days, and you FOUND it, as is! The coloring is beautiful, too. Great job! |
Apr 4th |
| 12 |
Apr 17 |
Comment |
A great but sad commentary! Wonderful concept! I felt that the image was a little static. So I rotated it a little. I also wanted a little more area below the phone grouping. Photoshop's crop tool did a nice job of automatically filling in the blank areas caused by the crop. I checked the box called Content Aware in the Crop tool's settings. I was amazed! It was quick and easy, and it actually worked! |
Apr 4th |
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| 12 |
Apr 17 |
Comment |
Rusty and old fashioned! Pretty colors, but I wish the background was more blurred out. Perhaps standing back farther and zooming in more could have created that effect. I know sometimes I have a hard time blurring the background with just the aperture. The intense sky draws my eye away from the main subject instead of being just a pretty backdrop for the scene.
For my suggestion for making the main subject stand out better from the background, I wanted to darken the bright white areas and also see the wood better. I fiddled with the sky, too, to make it more of a background element. |
Apr 4th |
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| 12 |
Apr 17 |
Comment |
"Lovely" star-shaped "past their prime" blossoms! In my experience the only way to treat a bright "behind-the-blossoms" area is not to include it in the composition. Although you liked the C-shaped row of flowers, they're not all in focus, maybe because they weren't all the same distance from the camera? Some of the leaves are in perfect focus whereas none of the flowers are. The top blurry focus doesn't add to the C-shape because it's a distraction being such a big area of blur.
So for my suggestion, I cropped your image and rotated it a little. In preparation for next time, find out what your closest focusing distance is for your completely zoomed in lens. Mine is about 7 inches. That will help you find compositions among flowers in the future. Here's my cropped version which is supposed to make the flowers the center of attention. We still get a little sense of a curve within the flower arrangement. I darkened the greens and put a slight vignette of darkness all around. |
Apr 4th |
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| 12 |
Apr 17 |
Reply |
Thanks for the compliment! I, too, was totally surprised by this lens. I've always used my 100mm macro lens for flowers. I'm still experimenting with the 270mm end of this zoom lens. The closest focusing distance is about one hand span (in my case, about 7 inches). That's good when I can't get closer to the flower than that. I can no longer get down on the grass and stick my lens right up to the flowers. I can get down, but I can't get back up! Now I bend over and see how close I can get! That's the advantage of the longer focal length. |
Apr 4th |
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