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Fall Mulberry
Fall Mulberry
dr rick


Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: October Free Study (Advanced Editing II)
Camera: Canon EOS-300D Rebel
Location: My front yard
Date: Oct 17, 2004
Aperture: f/5.6
ISO: 1600
Shutter: 1/40
Galleries: Nature
Date Uploaded: Oct 24, 2004

 The light was just right to give these changing leaves a nice glow. I especially liked the way the colors show off the venation.

Postprocessing: Converted from RAW using C1, crop, curves, USM twice, once with a large radius and small amount to increase overall contrast and again with small radius and large amount to increase acutance. I like the effect of the noise on the background so didn't attempt to deal with it.

Statistics
Place: 357 out of 487
Avg (all users): 5.0336
Avg (commenters): 6.3333
Avg (participants): 4.9951
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Views since voting: 715
Views during voting: 327
Votes: 238
Comments: 4
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 11/14/2004 04:35:55 PM
Critique Club

Composition/ Content
The leaves themselves are pretty, particularly the detail of the veins. However this is offset for me by the lack of any balanced composition and by the post processing.
There is no flow to the arrangement of leaves and no real focal point – instead my eye returns to the bright white circle at the top left. You might consider cropping to a landscape orientation by losing about a quarter of the height from the top and losing a little at the bottom (up to, but not touching, the red tip of the largest leaf). To my eye this strengthens composition considerably and allows you to lose that distracting white circle. It also strengthens the diagonal provided by the central vein of that largest leaf as it now comes from the bottom right corner and leads the eye into the centre and towards the other leaves.

Background
Not of huge interest. I'd be interested to see a version where shallower depth of field throws the background out of focus.

Camera Work - Technical
Lighting seems harsh as it has created some glaring reflections from the leaf surface, which I'm not keen on.

Digital Processing - Technical
Whilst I like vibrant colours this image strikes me as rather over saturated and over sharpened, though perhaps that's actually an effect of the harsh lighting?

Fits The Challenge
N/A

My Opinion On The Photo
Whilst the subject matter holds a little interest this composition and treatment doesn't really display that very strongly for me.

As always, this represents a personal opinion and other CC members may feel very differently about the image.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
11/06/2004 08:30:20 AM
Nice, if it was the only photo of colored leafs in the challenge it would be even better but there are so many.
It's a nice picture but after the 20th the wow factor is gone (not your fault)
Good luck.
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 11/04/2004 12:24:08 PM
Good shot.
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 11/02/2004 02:21:49 AM
I like the idea. But the leaves seem either over-sharpened or over-saturated. 6.
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