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10/07/2017 10:00:28 AM |
| The strange desat and focus issues do it for me as well. I would have given it a 4. |
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10/07/2017 02:50:11 AM |
Hi Juniemoon,
first of all sorry for my imperfect english language
I didn't vote in this challenge but if did I'd have put a low score because I think that the partial desaturation (in this case) doesn't work and, above all, is not correctly done. Many parts not colored and others too saturated.
It's a pity cause I believe the DOF could work fine in this image. |
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10/06/2017 11:37:03 PM |
| Hi June, I gave you 4 for this. I think that the camera probably doesn't see the subject as we do and has chosen the area to keep coloured according to its own vision. Probably if we saw this shot in natural colour we would see gradual transitions of colour. As Bear said, it looks like a botched selection in PS. |
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10/04/2017 01:56:17 PM |
I gave you a 5.
I played around with in camera effects in the past and believe me, they are far from perfect.
When viewing this image on a 27inch monitor at home it just looks awful. On a smaller screen it doesn't look that bad. The contrast of deep red and black doesn't seem to fit in this picture.
I think that low to mid 4 is the right score.
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10/04/2017 09:11:19 AM |
| The way the partial color effect treated the dark nose of the nearest berry absolutely killed this image. See how it bleeds off into the background and is unnaturally crisp in the transition from dark to red? Looks like a botched selection job in PS, and I bet a LOT of people assumed this was an edited image and voted accordingly (even though they're not supposed to). But either way, whether by you or by the camera, it's a glaringly bad editing job and that killed you. It would be nice to see how this looked without that filter applied in-camera if you have any frames from the same set-up where you did it au naturele... |
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10/04/2017 08:49:05 AM |
Hi Junior, I didn’t necessarily give you a low score but I’m did give you a 5 (my lowest score)...
Here is why...SDOF is kind of tricky...you want enough to be clear yet the rest to be blurred. Yes n your case the berries closest to me should be super sharp (yours isn’t) and the ones just behind the first one (yours are)....from that point on everything should go soft. Mind you this is only my opinion.
I think someone did a lizard...eyes were super sharp but nose wasn’t ....they too got a 5 from me. It’s hard to know what F-stop you should use. Because your subject should be sharp n clear. I think if you went up 1-3 stops you would have nailed it. You have the right idea but you needed a tack sharp subject. Go through the entries again and check out what F-stops worked and didn’t work.
I hope this helps. |
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10/04/2017 07:54:43 AM |
| I suspect the photo effects ruined this image for you. I would be curious to see it without the effects but guess that is not possible if it was all done in-camera. Aside from that I am not keen on the composition with the berries so central. |
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10/04/2017 07:47:17 AM |
Hi June, I didn't vote but if I had voted I probably would have given you a 4. I think I have 3 problems with this image: first the selective saturation/desaturation: it doesn't work here as  salmiakki already noted. Second: the focus is somewhere in the back part of the berries - it gives you too much out of focus foreground, even so much you really have to search for that focus point. And third (and probably caused by what I mentioned under second) the processing of that frontal berry is terrible. I'm not sure what photo effect you have used in-camera (and I'm not even sure that is allowed in Minimal), but I guess your image would have been much better without the use of that effect.
Don't let this demotivate you to try again and again, it's the best way to learn. Success next time! |
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10/04/2017 07:13:04 AM |
I personally loathe selective colour adjustments and will never score an image high when presented in this way. I cannot think of a case where the use of selective colour really enhances a photo. Aside from the colour issue, I would like to have seen something in focus. The blurred background is nice, but the foreground elements are not in focus and as they form the main subject of the photo it's really hard to get past those.
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09/27/2017 03:56:40 AM |
| Nice natural history well served by your treatment |
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